Triceratops

Animal · 7 hexes · SM +4 Triceratops (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

Ten tons of armored herbivore with a bone shield over the neck and two horns that have been used on worse. It does not hunt, and it does not need clever provocation — walking between a cow and a calf will do. The charge covers ground faster than ten tons has any business covering it.

Attributes

ST55

DX9

IQ3

HT14

HP55

Will10

Per10

FP14

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR4

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
HornsHorns (10): 6d impaling, Reach C,1. Two brow horns three feet long, driven by ten tons at a run.	10	6d impaling	C,1
TrampleTrample (8): 6d crushing, Reach C. Against a target already down.	8	6d crushing	C

Traits (14)

• Bad Temper (12)
• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Damage Resistance 4 (Tough Skin)
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Gregarious
• High Pain Threshold
• Horizontal
• Increased Consumption 2
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
• Striker (Horns; Impaling)

Skills (1)

• 10Brawling

Notes

• Racial cost: -7 points of traits plus 2 points of skills.
• Body weight: 10 tons.
• Movement: ground Move 5, 7 at a sprint (primary).
• The frill is bone, but it covers the neck alone and the published DR is a whole-body figure. A GM who wants the frill to count should treat it as cover for the neck rather than raise DR.

Encounter rating

CER100

Offense45

Protection55

Threat tiersevere

Appearing4

Wandering2

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• animal
• reptile
• dinosaur
• plains
• herd
• prehistoric
• war-beast

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Triceratops [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts]

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): Triceratops (SRD 5.1); Triceratops (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: -7 points across 20 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 2 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/triceratops.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.
• Thirty feet nose to tail, which is the SM +4 row.
• ST from Basic Lift: it shoves aside a rival of its own species, which is the heaviest thing it ever does on purpose.
• 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.