Vulture - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · 1 hex · SM -2 Vulture [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Vulture (SRD 5.1)]

No threat and a great deal of information. Vultures circling mean something died in that direction within the day, and a GM who describes them has told the party where to go without saying a word. On the ground they are ugly, unhurried and appalling to be downwind of.

Attributes

ST3

DX10

IQ5

HT12

HP3

Will10

Per13

FP12

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move11

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BeakBeak (10): 1d-6 piercing, Reach C. It will not start a fight. It will finish a meal.	10	1d-6 piercing	C

Traits (11)

Acute Vision 3
Bad Smell
Bestial
Cannot Speak
Discriminatory Smell
Flight (Winged)
Gregarious
No Fine Manipulators
Restricted Diet (Carrion)
Sharp Beak
Telescopic Vision 1

Skills (2)

10Brawling
14Tracking

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/vulture.gct
Independent build total: -100 points of racial traits plus 5 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Vulture (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: 5 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
Movement: ground Move 2; air Move 11 (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.
Body about 80 cm, which is the SM -2 row.
IQ 5 for the same reason as the giant vulture: these are patient, calculating birds rather than merely hungry ones.
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.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense5

Protection-5

Threat tierminor

Appearing5

Wandering5

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Where this one came from

Source record: Vulture [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals]
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): Vulture (SRD 5.1).
Racial template: -100 points across 17 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 5 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.

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.