Roddy McGristle was a human bounty hunter. He wielded an axe named Bleeder, and was usually accompanied by a pair of hunting dogs. After the deaths of the Thistledown farming family at the hands of the barghest whelp Ulgulu (who was disguised as a drow during the act), a bounty was placed on the head of the Drizzt Do'Urden. Roddy McGristle left Maldobar to find Drizzt, eventually finding and attacking him with Bleeder and his two dogs. During the fight the agile drow killed one of the dogs in self-defense and McGristle lost an ear.