Swarm of Insects - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

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Swarm · 1 hex · SM +0 Swarm of Insects (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

Whatever the region breeds — hornets, biting flies, ants boiling up out of the ground. Armor is no help and the swarm cannot be frightened off. Anyone who needs to concentrate for a few seconds is going to have a much worse time than anyone who only needs to swing.

Attributes

ST4

DX12

IQ1

HT11

HP4

Will8

Per9

FP11

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move11

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Bites and StingsBites and Stings: 1d-2 cutting, Reach C. No attack roll and no defense. Roll HT or spend the fight swatting: any task needing concentration, and any spell, fails while the swarm is on them.	no roll	1d-2 cutting	C

Traits (7)

Bestial
Cannot Speak
Cold-Blooded
Extra Legs (Six Legs)
Flight (Winged)
Injury Tolerance (Diffuse)
No Fine Manipulators

Notes

Racial cost: -37 points of traits plus 0 points of skills.
Body weight: 10 lb.
Movement: ground Move 3; air Move 11 (primary).

Encounter rating

CER19

Offense26

Protection-7

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering5

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Where this one came from

Source record: Swarm of Insects [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: swarms]
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): Swarm of Insects (SRD 5.1).
Racial template: -37 points across 14 traits, plus 0 racial skill(s) worth 0 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/swarm-of-insects.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.
One hex, and deliberately generic: the SRD heading covers whatever stings locally, and the mechanics are the same either way.

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.