I think it would be a blast to play in. Some simple changes would be renaming some classes and abilities to fit more in the Labyrinth style. Using some player created rules for cannons and firearms for the goblin city guards and machines.
Plus the mechanic of the Labyrinth just being an ever changing place could make for lots of interesting scenarios.
So this is more of an informal thread, to perhaps discuss some rough ideas and concepts if anyone is interested. I have some ideas I need to work out in my head, if anyone is interested feel free to just reply with some ideas
One thing to remember is the Goblin King has full control over how the labyrinth arranges it self so perhaps if the characters were to stumble upon it when he is away or incapacitated They could be in for truly odd effects as the labyrinth does things "on it's own".
Brian Froud and Terry Jones wrote a companion book to the movie dedicated to Jim Henson called The Goblins of Labyrinth It includes tons of great Froud illustrations and back stories on many of the goblins included in the movie. It may be hard to find these days I don't know because I have a copy on my shelf and don't need to look for it.
One thing to remember is the Goblin King has full control over how the labyrinth arranges it self so perhaps if the characters were to stumble upon it when he is away or incapacitated They could be in for truly odd effects as the labyrinth does things "on it's own".
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I used monsters from the monster manuals, but they didn't behave the same way. it was to attack the party with sprites and gnomes, but have them converse with goblins and hobgoblins. Also, this was the only place in my campaign that had the dreaded arquebus, since i vaguely remember the goblins using cannons it seemed to make sense to me.
I had the locations mapped on a flow chart, and if the characters were traveling to a specific location they needed to make a wisdom check, and if the failed they moved in a random direction on the flow chart. Even if they visited the same local twice, i described it a bit different treating each general area as very large and the characters only experienced a small part of each location.
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I ran an adventure through my own adaption of the movie. Instead of drawing out a maze, I created separate encounter areas. The areas were labeled the forest, the bog, the maze, the dungeons, the city, the courtyard, etc,... I had the locations mapped on a flow chart, and if the characters were traveling to a specific location they needed to make a wisdom check, and if the failed they moved in a random direction on the flow chart. Even if they visited the same local twice, i described it a bit different treating each general area as very large and the characters only experienced a small part of each location.
I used monsters from the monster manuals, but they didn't behave the same way. it was to attack the party with sprites and gnomes, but have them converse with goblins and hobgoblins. Also, this was the only place in my campaign that had the dreaded arquebus, since i vaguely remember the goblins using cannons it seemed to make sense to me.
Now that's a great idea (flowcharting and repeating areas). Seems like a perfectly good introduction to the Feywild and some loony David Bowie like fey lord. Long running "villian" for the PCs to deal with if they don't "dethrone" or otherwise dispose of him during their trip to the Labyrinth.
Ludo: For Ludo's race my plan is currently to use bugbear as a base and then modify the ability mods to +2 Str & +2 Con and change the bugbears natural ability to an ability that calls rocks to him. Then I would put in a set of racial feats that would increase the usefulness of the ability. I was thinking of calling the ability "Pet Rock", but we'll see.
Sir Didymous: Will be based on Kobald stats, modified of course. I was thinking of +2 Dex +2 Cha as a rough idea at this point. Kobolds are PERFECT for him,
Humans: Based on normal human stats, in my version will be a rarity and by law will need to wear goblin masks while inside goblin city. There will be some silly exceptions on when a human may walk around in public without their masks. If anyone can think of anything Labyrinthy for this please feel free to suggest some 'exceptions'.
Fairies: Likely just based on your standard fairies, but with a weak bite attack as well lol...
Hoggle: Dwarf stats, some modifications more than likely.
Goblins: Basic goblin stats
Constructs: Remember the end of the movie, the giant construct that was controlled by the goblins? Those will have stats of a construct and then when it is destroyed you would have to deal with the goblins that escape.
Flying Bird Hats: Will be modified darkmantles, they come at you from above and try to attach themselves to your head. When they do its almost impossible to remove them.
Those are some of my rough ideas for now, I will post some more when I have time
Once I get the labyrinth campaign set up to how I want it I plan on expanding it to include "The Dark Crystal" as well, I think they could both we worked into one campaign quite well. There are more lands beyond the Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal could help flesh that out.