Sea Horse

Animal · 1 hex · SM -7 Sea Horse [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Sea Horse (SRD 5.1)]

A thumb-length fish that swims upright, holds station by its tail, and is armoured in bony rings against absolutely nothing that matters. It is a component, a curiosity and a familiar, and it is the reason anyone believes the giant version could be ridden.

Attributes

ST1

DX12

IQ3

HT9

HP1

Will8

Per9

FP9

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move2

Dodge8

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
SnapSnap (12): 1d-8 crushing, Reach C. It eats things smaller than a fingernail. This entry exists so the record rates as something rather than nothing.	12	1d-8 crushing	C

Traits (8)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Damage Resistance 1
• Doesn't Breathe (Gills) (Gills)
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Legs (Aquatic)
• Peripheral Vision

Skills (1)

• 12Brawling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/sea-horse.gct
• Independent build total: -170 points of racial traits plus 1 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Sea Horse (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 2; water Move 2 (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 15 cm upright, which is the SM -7 row. An earlier draft had it two steps larger, sized from a mass band rather than from the published length table.
• 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-7

Protection-11

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• fish
• aquatic
• reef
• harmless

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Where this one came from

Source record

Sea Horse [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals]

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): Sea Horse (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -170 points across 15 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.