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As well, it sounds like you're embracing the player-facing ethos of Goblinville. Great job on following what your group wants and focusing your prep on their goals and how achieving them will be difficult.

Wafflebunny, we don't think of it as a bleak outlook! Goblinville is about goblins going into crazy dangerous places, grabbing what they can and escaping with their lives (and loot) intact. It's not about "winning" in the traditional fantasy RPG way, by killing everything in the dungeon. From the ground up in our adventure designs (and in our adventure design guidelines), we try to instill that monsters aren't just obstacles in the way of the treasure, and that's something important for both our players and GMs to embody.

If the goblins don't kill the ooze, good! That means they were probably smart enough to not go near it in the first place! It also means that it's going to escape, and that's much more valuable as a recurring story in the persistent world of your Goblinville game.

Hey everyone, Eric from Goblinville here. Srinvgp, good idea for a standard format. When we list our monsters it goes like this:

Name / number appearing [bold]
(Description: appearance, attitude, instincts)  [italic]  Two, three sentences, tops
(Moves) (X) (Finishing moves) [bold italic] See GG1 p.22 for guidelines
(Special rules, notes on moves/finishing moves) [italic]
(L) Loot [no formatting]

After each line in the stat block, hold SHIFT and press return to keep the lines tight.

HERE'S AN EXAMPLE:

Bog Leech (1d6)
These arm-length creatures lay in wait for animals to move through their pools. With no eyes, they're attracted to body heat. They attach themselves to bare skin, and wriggle aggressively under clothing to find it.
Swim unseen, Seek heat, Attach, Suck blood (X) Drain and incapacitate (Exhausted and unconscious for the scene)
The finishing move is not immediately fatal but if a bog leech is left on an incapacitated goblin, it will be Injured next turn, and Dead the next as the leech feeds leisurely on the goblin.
(L)  1 ration when cooked. Relieves Exhausted.