Viper Snake

Animal · 1 hex · SM -2 Viper Snake (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1: Poisonous Snake)

Under three feet, patterned into invisibility against dead leaves, and usually encountered by standing on it. A viper does not behave like a monster: it strikes once, it means it, and it leaves. The consequences arrive later, and they are what the party actually has to deal with.

Attributes

ST2

DX14

IQ3

HT11

HP2

Will8

Per10

FP11

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (16): 1d-7 impaling, Reach C. Roll HT or lose the use of the bitten limb and take a slow, ugly wound that will not close. Untreated it is often fatal days later rather than minutes.	16	1d-7 impaling	C

Traits (12)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Discriminatory Smell
• Fangs
• Infravision
• Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
• Night Vision 3
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Legs (Slithers)
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Vibration Sense (Air)

Skills (3)

• 16Brawling
• 17Stealth
• 11Tracking

Notes

• Racial cost: -95 points of traits plus 20 points of skills.
• Body weight: 2 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 6 (primary).
• The 5.1 corpus prints this as 'Poisonous Snake' and the 3.5 corpus as 'Viper Snake'; both are this record.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense5

Protection-7

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering6

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• animal
• reptile
• forest
• swamp
• swarm-forming
• familiar
• hazard
• venomous

GCS v5 downloads

• ↓ Character sheet (.gcs)Open directly in GCS
• ↓ Ancestry template (.gct)Apply to any character

Where this one came from

Source record

Viper Snake [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: snakes]

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): Poisonous Snake (SRD 5.1); Viper Snake (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: -95 points across 18 traits, plus 3 racial skill(s) worth 20 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/viper-snake.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.
• About 3 feet, which is the SM -2 row.
• Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: the Tracking skill, which a creature with Discriminatory Smell should always have. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.