Construct · 2 hexes · SM +1 Rug of Smothering (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)
It is a rug. It stays a rug until it is over somebody's head, at which point it weighs as much as a man and has folded itself twice. It does no damage at all. The victim suffocates inside it while everyone else works out how to help without putting a blade through them.
Attributes
ST14
DX12
IQ1
HT12
HP20
Will10
Per10
FP14
Basic Speed6
Basic Move6
Dodge9
DR0
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| SmotherSmother: Reach C. It comes up off the floor and wraps. No damage at all: the victim is blinded, held, and suffocating, and everyone else in the room has to decide whether they can cut a rug without cutting the person inside it. | — | — | C |
Traits (15)
- Blindness
- Cannot Speak
- Constriction Attack
- Doesn't Breathe
- Doesn't Eat or Drink
- Doesn't Sleep
- Double-Jointed
- Flexibility
- Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
- Injury Tolerance (Homogenous)
- Injury Tolerance (No Blood)
- Injury Tolerance (No Brain)
- Injury Tolerance (No Vitals)
- Unfazeable
- Vibration Sense (Air)
Skills (2)
- 14Brawling
- 16Stealth
Notes
- Racial cost: 154 points of traits plus 20 points of skills.
- Body weight: 35 lb.
- Movement: ground Move 6 (primary).
Encounter rating
CER40
Offense18
Protection22
Threat tierstandard
Appearing1
Wandering3
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- construct
- animated-object
- dungeon
- ambusher
- eyeless
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Rug of Smothering [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: constructs, animated objects and awakened plants]
- Source system
- doa_fixture / doa_authored
- Released under
- cc_by_4_0
- Conversion
- 0.1.0-srd-independent-build
- Review status
- approved
- Credit
- Monster statistics, ratings and description prose by Monsters on Automatic; AI-generated first draft, project-reviewed, released under CC BY 4.0.
- Description
- Written by Dungeons on Automatic, released under cc_by_4_0
- Independently authored GURPS build. The SRD supplies the creature identity this record answers to and nothing else: no SRD statistics, wording or presentation is reproduced, and no third-party GURPS conversion was used as an input.
- Answers the SRD heading(s): Rug of Smothering (SRD 5.1).
- Racial template: 154 points across 23 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 20 points.
- Every trait is drawn from the project's controlled GURPS vocabulary in scripts/srd/trait-library.mjs, which carries the page reference and published cost for each entry.
- sourceSystem is recorded as doa_fixture because that is the package contract's value for project-authored material; the SRD headings this record answers are in provenance.coversSourceIdentities.
- Ratings are recomputed through the consumer CER path on every build, so a mechanics change cannot leave a stale rating behind.
- Typical Stats, damage and ratings are derived from the racial template rather than authored beside it, so the sheet and the stat block cannot disagree.
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/rug-of-smothering.gct
- The published Move is the primary medium's cruising Move; sprint figures are stated in the movement note and not folded into it.
- Treasure and grappling are not authored for this record and ship as explicit nulls, which reads as known absent rather than forgotten; `lair` carries a short habitat note instead, because where a creature dens is an encounter fact rather than a loot one.
- Body mass is the figure the build was scaled from and the one fact that makes it checkable; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
- Ten feet on the long side, which is the SM +1 row.
- It has no damaging attack at all, and the whole record rests on binding ST and a suffocation ability. That is the correct shape and it is also a good check on the rating path, which would score a creature that deals no damage at zero if the disabling ability were not priced.
- Stealth is bought high on purpose. Its entire advantage is being furniture until it is not.
Copyright 2026 Monsters on Automatic. GURPS-compatible monster statistics, ratings and prose authored for this package as an AI-generated first draft under project review. No SRD text, and no third-party GURPS conversion, is reproduced. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.