Spider

Animal · 1 hex · SM -9 Spider [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: vermin and monstrous arthropods; answers Spider (SRD 5.1)]

A common house spider, which is to say a component, a familiar, an omen and a thing found in a boot. It is entirely harmless and its web across a doorway is worth more at a table than its bite ever will be — nobody has walked through that web for a while.

Attributes

ST1

DX14

IQ2

HT10

HP1

Will8

Per9

FP10

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): 1d-7 impaling, Reach C. A raised itchy welt on anything larger than a mouse. Included because a GM will eventually be asked.	14	1d-7 impaling	C

Traits (14)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Clinging
• Cold-Blooded
• Extra Legs (Eight Legs)
• Fangs
• Horizontal
• Injury Tolerance (No Brain)
• Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
• Injury Tolerance (No Vitals)
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Vibration Sense (Air)

Skills (2)

• 14Brawling
• 16Stealth

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/spider.gct
• Independent build total: -104 points of racial traits plus 9 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Spider (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: 0.001 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.
• About 7 cm across the legs, which is the SM -9 row.
• Rated at the floor and that is the honest answer. It is here for coverage and for scene-dressing, not as an opponent.
• 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-9

Threat tierminor

Appearing3

Wandering6

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• arthropod
• vermin
• urban
• harmless
• familiar-scale

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Where this one came from

Source record

Spider [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): Spider (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -104 points across 19 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 9 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.