Peter Lee talks about Modrons miniatures

[The Little Raven]

And could you please avoid insinuating things with quotation marks.

Could I avoid insinuating that your statement wasn't an actual quote? Nope, because it wasn't an actual quote.

In any event, full quote and source below.

Much better. However, there is a difference between "portraying them as something other than goofy-looking polyhedrons is possible, but a hard sell" and "that's just stupid," which was your original statement.

Granted, the statement doesn't entirely mesh with things I've heard elsewhere, but he joined the development team a bit late, so arguably he just wasn't aware of any earlier intended direction to take the game.

What exactly do you mean by "he joined the development team a bit late?" I tend to see a lot of suggestions that the 4e team is all-new to D&D, when most of them worked on the entire lifespan of 3rd Edition and a few worked for TSR since 2e days. Andy Collins is credited with additional design on the 3.0 books, and has worked at WotC since at least 1999.

 

[Dragonbait]

I have never met a player who looked at the modron and said "That's stupid!"

In fact, in 12 years of gaming, I have never met players who make the complaints I hear people attributing to D&D customer base on here (anti-modron, anti-gnome, anti-dragonborn, anti-tiefling, anti-air ships, anti-anthropomorphics, anti-whatever else). I guess I live in a bizarro world vortex where people are NOT rabid fans of/haters of different aspects of the game and CAN deal with and enjoy games with a wide variety of aspects.

 

[WhatGravitas]

By the way, in one of the last Dragon magazines (by Paizo), there were some really, really great (and weirdly cute) depictions of modrons:

Cover Art
Interior Art

They're based on DiTerlizzi's concepts... and they're fun!

Cheers, LT.

 

[avin]

My point is: if Modrons are goofy polyedrons (to some costumers) what these same costumers think about Grell and Grick?

 

[RodneyThompson]

I called it first!

Well, you know what they say: Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.



--a fellow great mind.

 

[Mouseferatu]

My point is: if Modrons are goofy polyedrons (to some costumers) what these same costumers think about Grell and Grick?

I dislike modrons. I love the grell; I think they're a good type of creepy, alien aberration.

I don't have an opinion of the grick one way or the other, except that I still think it's more of a viable creature option than polyhedrons on legs.

But like I said above, I'd be willing to give the modrons a shot--but it would require substantial reimagining of what they are and why they exist.

 

[kenmarable]

Ask and ye shall receive.

Poll here

 

[JeffB]

I miss Modrons about as much as much as I miss Lorraine Williams

 

[RavinRay]

Okay, I am torn.

Basically, Modrons look ridicilous. Anthrophormized Platonic Bodies...

But their illustration still manages to be awesome, maybe in a comedial way....

The 4E cosmology has space for a Far Realms where creatures roam with bizarre anatomies and motivations, but not for creatures that are geometrically-based and lawful in the extreme?

 

[malraux]

The 4E cosmology has space for a Far Realms where creatures roam with bizarre anatomies and motivations, but not for creatures that are geometrically-based and lawful in the extreme?

Hmmm, what if modrons got moved to the far realm in this edition? It could make the modron march a lot scarier.