General Rules: Monsters - Ridge Goblin

Ridge Goblin (modified for rules compliance from Mercenaries)
Small Humanoid (Goblinoid)

Hit Dice: 1d8 (4 hit points)
Initiative: +1 (Dexterity)
Speed: 20 feet (scale mail), base 30 feet
Armor Class: 18 (+1 size, +1 Dexterity, +1 dodge, +4 scale mail, +1 natural); touch 13, flat-footed 16
BAB/Grapple: +0/-3

Attack: Greataxe +2 melee (1d8+1, slashing, 20 x3) or javelin +2 ranged (1d4+1, piercing, 20 x2, 30 feet x5)

Full Attack: Greataxe +2 melee (1d8+1, slashing, 20 x3) or javelin +2 ranged (1d4+1, piercing, 20 x2, 30 feet x5)

Space/Reach: 5 feet by 5 feet/5 feet
Special Attacks: Favored Enemy
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 feet
Saves: Fortitude +0, Reflex +3, Will -1
Abilities: Str 12, Int 10, Wis 9, Dex 13, Con 11, Cha 8

Skills: Hide +3, Listen +1, Spot +1

Feats: Dodge
Environment: Any hills, mountains, and underground

Organization: Gang (2 - 4), squad (11 -20 plus 2 3^rd level sergeants and 1 leader of 3^rd - 6^th level), or band (30 - 100 plus 150% noncombatants plus 1 3^rd level sergeants per 10 adults, 5 5^th level lieutenants and 3 7^th level captains)

Challenge Rating: ½
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually lawful evil
Advancement: By character class

Ferociously territorial and just as intensely greedy, ridge goblins present a hazard to prospectors and miners looking for gems or precious metals, refugees fleeing strife, curious explorers - in fact, just about anyone with a reason to head for the hills. They believe that anyone or anything that enters their domain, whether on purpose or by accident, automatically belongs to them. Whatever it is - gold, gemstones, food, mundante items, people - if it is there already, it belongs to the ridge goblin tribe that lives in the area. If it enters the area, it belongs to the ridge goblins. If a ridge goblin steals something and brings it back to thr tribal domain, it rightfully belongs to the tribe. And so on.

This proprietary attitude does little to endear ridge goblins to other intelligent races, and parties bent on revenge, justice, or a mixture of both pften head up into ridge goblin lands looking for satisfaction. Emnity between ridge goblins and dwarves and gnomes is particularly bitter. Trouble comes to any gnome that enters ridge goblin lands in search of gemstones. Ridge goblins have fought several savage wars against dwarven colonies; they refuse to recognize that dwarves have any right at all to live in the mountains, and they have been known to insist in all seriousness that strongholds that dwarves have inhabited for countless generations are really theirs by right.

Ridge goblins have harsh, angular faces and a hard ridge of bone that runs around the crown of the skull.

Ridge goblins speak a dialect of Jeblic.

Combat
When they outnumber their opponents, ridge goblins come at them in headlong rushes, scrambling madly over rocks and wailing ear-splitting cries. If a ridge goblin gets a chance to execute a charge attack, it will try to headbutt its opponent with the hard ridge of bone at the top of its head.

Favored Enemy (Ex): Treat dwarves and gnomes as ridge goblins' favored enemy due to their long and intense history of strife. A ridge goblin gains a +1 melee attack bonus, a +1 ranged attack bonus when the target is within 30 feet, and a +1 damage bonus against a dwarf or gnome. It also gains a +1 bonus to Bluff, Listen, Sense Motive, Spot, and Survival checks against dwarves and gnomes.

Ridge Goblin Society
Ridge goblins organize themselves into large tribal groups. More than one tribe may exist within a given territory, and while neighboring tribes usually cooperate with one another, they may also feud over land and possessions. Each tribe subdivides into family-sized clans that find shelter in caves, under overhangs, or wherever natural rock formations allow protection from the elements.

Ridge goblins worship Brgha, a mountain god who regards ridge goblins as his favored children and teaches them that all the treasures of the earth are theirs by right.

Ridge Goblin Characters
Their inherent suspicion of outsiders makes it hard for ridge goblins to blend in with other races, and so it is unlikely that a ridge goblin will join a mixed party of characters. Under practically no circumstances would a ridge goblin team up with dwarves or gnomes; they'd try to get at each other's throats within minutes.

A ridge goblin's favored class is warrior.

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