Animal · 3 hexes · SM +2 Warhorse, Heavy (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1: Warhorse)
A destrier: bred heavy, trained not to shy from fire, steel or screaming, and taught to fight from under a rider. It costs more than most people's houses and earns it, because it will carry a charge home into a line that is trying very hard to stop it. On the ground it is foul-tempered.
Attributes
ST26
DX11
IQ4
HT13
HP26
Will10
Per8
FP13
Basic Speed6
Basic Move12
Dodge9
DR0
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| HoovesHooves (12): 2d+4 crushing, Reach C,1. Trained to strike forward on command rather than only to kick out behind. | 12 | 2d+4 crushing | C,1 |
| BiteBite (12): 2d crushing, Reach C. | 12 | 2d crushing | C |
Traits (15)
- Acute Hearing 2
- Bad Temper (12)
- Bestial
- Cannot Speak
- Chummy
- Combat Reflexes
- Enhanced Move 1 (Ground)
- Extra Legs (Four Legs)
- Fearlessness 3
- Fur
- Hooves
- Horizontal
- No Fine Manipulators
- Peripheral Vision
- Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
Skills (2)
- 12Brawling
- 13Running
Notes
- Racial cost: 15 points of traits plus 4 points of skills.
- Movement: ground Move 6, 12 at a sprint (primary).
- The light warhorse the 3.5 corpus prints separately is this record ridden lighter; use the same statistics and drop the barding.
Encounter rating
CER44
Offense22
Protection22
Threat tierstandard
Appearing2
Wandering2
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- srd-3-5
- animal
- mammal
- urban
- domestic
- mount
- trained
- war-beast
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Warhorse, Heavy [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land 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): Warhorse (SRD 5.1); Warhorse, Heavy (SRD 3.5).
- Racial template: 15 points across 21 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 4 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/heavy-warhorse.gct
- The published Move folds this creature's Enhanced Move into a single figure.
- 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.
- 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.
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.