Swarm of Quippers

Swarm · 1 hex · SM +0 Swarm of Quippers [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: swarms; answers Swarm of Quippers (SRD 5.1)]

The water boils. A quipper shoal takes a pack mule down to bone between one bank and the other, and anyone still in the river when it arrives has about as long as it takes to shout. Getting out is the only tactic that works.

Attributes

ST10

DX14

IQ3

HT10

HP10

Will8

Per9

FP10

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Feeding FrenzyFeeding Frenzy: 1d+1 cutting, Reach C. No attack roll and no defence. Everything in the water in that hex is being bitten continuously, and blood in the water makes it worse rather than better.	no roll	1d+1 cutting	C

Traits (10)

• Bestial
• Bloodlust (12)
• Cannot Speak
• Doesn't Breathe (Gills) (Gills)
• Injury Tolerance (Diffuse)
• Night Vision 6
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Legs (Aquatic)
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Teeth

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/swarm-of-quippers.gct
• Independent build total: 5 points of racial traits plus 0 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Swarm of Quippers (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: 40 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
• Movement: ground Move 6; water 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.
• One hex of swarm; the individual is the Quipper record in the bird-fish-aquatic batch.
• This does the heaviest raw damage of any swarm here and has no disabling ability at all, which is the right shape: quippers do not disable, they consume.

Encounter rating

CER22

Offense22

Protection0

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering4

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• swarm
• animal
• fish
• aquatic
• freshwater
• predator
• wandering-encounter

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Where this one came from

Source record

Swarm of Quippers [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 Quippers (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: 5 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.