Scorpion - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · 1 hex · SM -8 Scorpion [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: vermin and monstrous arthropods; answers Scorpion (SRD 5.1)]

Eight centimetres of nothing much, and a genuine reason to shake out your bedroll. It cannot hurt anyone by force and does not need to. A scorpion in a camp is a hazard rather than a fight, and it is usually found by the wrong method.

Attributes

ST1

DX11

IQ1

HT10

HP1

Will8

Per9

FP10

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
StingSting (11): 1d-6 impaling, Reach C. The wound is a pinprick and the venom is the whole encounter: roll HT or spend the next day in pain, feverish and unable to hold a weapon steady.	11	1d-6 impaling	C

Traits (16)

Bestial
Cannot Speak
Cold-Blooded
Damage Resistance 1
Extra Legs (Eight Legs)
Horizontal
Injury Tolerance (No Brain)
Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
Injury Tolerance (No Vitals)
Night Vision 3
No Fine Manipulators
Peripheral Vision
Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
Sharp Claws (Pincers)
Striker (Sting; Impaling)
Vibration Sense (Air)

Skills (1)

11Brawling

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/scorpion.gct
Independent build total: -151 points of racial traits plus 1 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Scorpion (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: 0.02 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
Movement: ground Move 5 (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.
About 8 cm, which is the SM -8 row.
ST is the floor. The rating comes almost entirely from the venom, which is correct: this creature's whole threat is chemical.
Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: Peripheral Vision. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense-2

Protection-10

Threat tierminor

Appearing2

Wandering5

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Where this one came from

Source record: Scorpion [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: vermin and monstrous arthropods]
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): Scorpion (SRD 5.1).
Racial template: -151 points across 21 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 1 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.