Ripnugget — Warchief of Thistletop

Identity 
 
 Name: Chief Ripnugget 
 Species: Goblin 
 Class: Fighter 5 (CR 5, published source) 
 Tribe: Thistletop / Razertooth 
 Role: Warchief of the Thistletop goblins; controls the best lair of the five Sandpoint-region tribes 
 Status: Unknown — likely still active at time of last recorded session 
 
 Description 
 Ripnugget controls the best lair among the five Sandpoint-region goblin tribes — Thistletop island, a fortified headland with an elevated compound and dungeon levels beneath. He rides a giant gecko named Stickfoot. His throne room (C19) features a dog pelt throne, horse skull armrests, and impaled human hands on the pillars. Has a broken arm (published source). 
 The Sandpoint Plan 
 Per GM notes (T2) and Featherbrain’s intel (T3): Ripnugget is forming an army to attack Sandpoint, intending to offer it and its inhabitants as a sacrifice to Lamashtu. He is operating under the command of an unnamed Hobgoblin — the “Leader of the assault.” The Hobgoblin visited the Birdcruncher tribe and recruited many of them for the Thistletop operation. confirmed — T2 GM notes, T3 session log 
 Status 
 Status: Unknown. The party’s assault on Thistletop does not include a recorded confrontation with Ripnugget in extracted T3 sources. He was alive and commanding as of the assault sequence in March 2025. 
 Notes 
 
 Gogmurt was Ripnugget’s advisor but was bitterly opposed to the Sandpoint raid — and was defeated by the party in Razertooth Territory before the full Thistletop assault. 
 The unnamed Hobgoblin commander is Ripnugget’s superior in the Lamashtu operation, not a subordinate.