Construct · 2 hexes · SM +1 Rug of Smothering [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: constructs, animated objects and awakened plants; answers Rug of Smothering (SRD 5.1)]
It is a rug. It is a rug right up until it is around your head, and then it is a rug that weighs as much as a man and has folded itself twice. It does no damage whatsoever, which is the horrible part — the person inside is suffocating while their friends work out how to help without stabbing 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
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/rug-of-smothering.gct
- Independent build total: 154 points of racial traits plus 20 points of racial skills.
- Answers the SRD heading(s): Rug of Smothering (SRD 5.1). Only the creature identity is taken from the SRD; the GURPS statistics, ratings and prose are this project's own work and reproduce no SRD text.
- Typical Stats, damage and ratings are derived from the racial template, not authored beside it, so the sheet and the stat block cannot disagree.
- Body mass used to scale this build: 15 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
- Movement: ground Move 6 (primary). The published Move is the primary medium's cruising Move; sprint figures are stated here and not folded into it.
- Treasure and grappling are not authored for this batch and ship as explicit nulls; `lair` carries a short habitat note, because where a wandering animal dens is an encounter fact rather than a loot one.
- Three metres 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.
Encounter rating
CER40
Offense18
Protection22
Threat tierstandard
Appearing1
Wandering3
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- construct
- animated-object
- ambusher
- dungeon
- 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.
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.