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Goblin Coast · area boss LXXXVII

Ogruk Saltjaw, the Tally-Keeper

He Counts His Own Dead

A warband chief who worked out that his own people are worth more to him dead than alive. He does not protect his goblins and he does not fight beside them. He eats them, and cuts a notch for each one.

CR 10Humanoid (Goblinoid) · Barbarian 3 / Warchief 7resref gc4_ogrukspawn table 181 · always, 12% · count 1

Stat Block

Race / Class
Humanoid (Goblinoid) · Barbarian 3 / Warchief 7
Challenge Rating
10
Hit Points
128 (expected ~113)
Natural Armor
4
Str
22
+6
Dex
14
+2
Con
20
+5
Int
10
+0
Wis
12
+1
Cha
16
+3
Feats — Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Knockdown, Toughness, Great Fortitude, Iron Will, Skill Focus (Discipline), Blind Fight
Skills — Discipline 13, Intimidate 13, Taunt 10, Listen 6
Spells — — none. A Warchief leads; the tally is the whole spellbook.

The Fight

Any round a kinsman is within 12m

Take the Tally

That goblin dies on the spot. Ogruk keeps a permanent +1 to hit and a slab of temporary hit points for it, and gets visibly larger. Every prior escalating boss here feeds on the PARTY — damage taken, spells cast, saves failed. This one feeds on his warband.

Any round nothing of his is in reach

Call Down the Headland

He spends the whole round bellowing another coast goblin into the fight — a bruiser once he has three notches. That call is the party's window, and the resource race is entirely in their hands: every add left standing is a notch he is going to take.

At 5 notches on the current tally, repeatable

Saltjaw's Reckoning

The tally is spent at once: a warband roar for 3d8+8 sonic in 10m, Will against being frightened, Fortitude against being put down, and a fifth of his own hit points back. The notches themselves stay; only the tally resets.

Why These Numbers

CR10, one notch above Goblin Coast's prior Barknuckle ceiling and matched to Nabb and Ysmene, with Malbrek at CR11 as the batch's apex.

He is the bestiary's first Warchief and, deliberately, nothing like the coast's existing three: Grisla is a divine caster, Tideglass a druid, Barknuckle a giant-blooded fighter. None of them interact with the trash population at all. Ogruk turns the ordinary coast goblins — the ones already in the spawn table, no new blueprint required — into the fight's actual resource, in both directions.

The call is capped at eight over the whole fight so he cannot conjure an unbounded warband, and the tally resets on each Reckoning so the roar can fire more than once in a long fight without the permanent bonuses running away.

No spells, no epic spell — a martial prestige class at CR10.

How It's Wired

pattern
new build — cloned from bele_bugbear (already ran real j_ai_* AI)
blueprint
gc4_ogruk.utc
scripts
gc4_og_inc.nss, gc4_og_spawn.nss, gc4_og_round.nss, gc4_og_death.nss
area wiring
goblincoast.git · sparky_variables, enc12 → 181