Swarm of Poisonous Snakes

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

A den's worth of vipers, disturbed all at once and coming out over each other in every direction. There is no way past them that does not involve being bitten several times, and the venom does not care that each snake delivered only a little.

Attributes

ST8

DX13

IQ3

HT11

HP8

Will8

Per10

FP11

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Swarming BitesSwarming Bites: 1d-1 impaling, Reach C. No attack roll and no defense. Roll HT at a penalty for the sheer number of doses; failure means the limb goes, then the breathing does. This is the most lethal thing any of these swarms does, and it is entirely chemical.	no roll	1d-1 impaling	C

Traits (11)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Discriminatory Smell
• Fangs
• Infravision
• Injury Tolerance (Diffuse)
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Legs (Slithers)
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Vibration Sense (Air)

Notes

• Racial cost: 21 points of traits plus 0 points of skills.
• Body weight: 45 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 6 (primary).

Encounter rating

CER28

Offense29

Protection-1

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• swarm
• animal
• reptile
• swamp
• underground
• venomous

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Where this one came from

Source record

Swarm of Poisonous Snakes [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 Poisonous Snakes (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: 21 points across 17 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-poisonous-snakes.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 of swarm; the individual is the Viper Snake.
• The venom is priced at 40 points and carries most of the rating. That is correct — the bites themselves are trivial and the doses are what kill.