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D&D General Modrons should be terrifying
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Shades of Eternity
Hero
Headcanon where the Modron drop off puzzleboxes to recruit accepted. 
They don't just recruit plebs. They also want high-level spellcasters and a great way to see if they are worthy is to test them.
As a result, they start at a higher rank within the hierarchy.
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Modrons are also the most likely outerplanar creatures to use energy weapons.
They use beams of pure order (I remember some 2e module where a beam of order was doing catastrophic damage to the planes), which means they are radiant, but with a twist that a failed save means they have been "sorted" and broken down into base components.
plus when they merge to make vehicles, they will remind me of a certain 80's toy.
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They don't just recruit plebs. They also want high-level spellcasters and a great way to see if they are worthy is to test them.
As a result, they start at a higher rank within the hierarchy.
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Modrons are also the most likely outerplanar creatures to use energy weapons.
They use beams of pure order (I remember some 2e module where a beam of order was doing catastrophic damage to the planes), which means they are radiant, but with a twist that a failed save means they have been "sorted" and broken down into base components.
plus when they merge to make vehicles, they will remind me of a certain 80's toy.
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That's okay. It means the GM doesn't need a reason. Modrons can depicted in any situation, do anything as part of that great plan that nobody can comprehend.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
I like this idea, mind if I steal it?Headcanon where the Modron drop off puzzleboxes to recruit accepted.
They don't just recruit plebs. They also want high-level spellcasters and a great way to see if they are worthy is to test them.
Blue Orange
Gone to Texas
I always thought it would be fun if the forces of law and chaos had similar-but-different versions of the classes--Law has wizards and paladins, Chaos has sorcerers and barbarians, etc.
Also, perhaps modrons are so lawful their attacks don't do variable damage--maybe an attack always does 4 damage instead of 1d6 or something.
(BTW, with the same average a larger number of dice will produce a less variable range--3d4 vs 1d10+2 for example.)
Also, perhaps modrons are so lawful their attacks don't do variable damage--maybe an attack always does 4 damage instead of 1d6 or something.
(BTW, with the same average a larger number of dice will produce a less variable range--3d4 vs 1d10+2 for example.)
It appears ordered to humans, because we don't see macro-structures in any disarray, but in a mathematical sense heat death is the state of highest entropy.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
When chaos becomes order and order becomes chaos all things end.
Oh, I'm well aware! I hate death at the universe represents the highest end of all entropy.
Just an interesting thought that there could be a species of creature that is trying to get us to that point faster just so the universe can be as ordered as possible by being evenly spread out with nothing happening.
This exactly was my thought.
Shades of Eternity
Hero
Go for it.
In fact, once this thread slows down, I would like permission to compile the results.
I'm not sure if it will be on my blog or a dmguild article, but I think we found an itch that needs scratching that could be serious fun and to let the rest of the community know.
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The Puzzle boxes could be essentially portable dungeons that you are shrunk down and dumped into and your little group needs to deal with the creatures /traps/ encounters to get out of.
Blue Orange
Gone to Texas
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In which case you could associate cold with order and fire with chaos. Modrons might use cold-based attacks, whereas slaadi favor fire.
Supposedly a perfect crystal at absolute zero has no entropy...and that sounds pretty modron-ish.
In which case you could associate cold with order and fire with chaos. Modrons might use cold-based attacks, whereas slaadi favor fire.
Supposedly a perfect crystal at absolute zero has no entropy...and that sounds pretty modron-ish.
