Scorpion

Animal · 1 hex · SM -8 Scorpion (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

Three inches of nothing much, and a good reason to shake out a bedroll. It cannot hurt anybody by force and does not need to. A scorpion in 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

• Racial cost: -151 points of traits plus 1 point of skills.
• Body weight: 1 oz.
• Movement: ground Move 5 (primary).

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense-2

Protection-10

Threat tierminor

Appearing2

Wandering5

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• arthropod
• vermin
• desert
• hazard
• venomous

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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.
• 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/scorpion.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.
• About 3 inches, 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.