Dragon #354 cover (hot modron action)

[NilesB]

DiTerlizzi's Modrons look cobbled together in a slapdash disorderly fashion.

I'm not convinced there isn't improvement to be made over the first edition designs, but Planescape was not a step forward.

 

[Klaus]

DiTerlizzi's Modrons look cobbled together in a slapdash disorderly fashion.

I'm not convinced there isn't improvement to be made over the first edition designs, but Planescape was not a step forward.

"Pike it, berk!"


Never, in my 20 years (!!!!) of D&D, had I heard of Modrons before Planescape, so those *are* the only Modrons to me.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I feel duped Shade. I looked at this thread expecting some hot Modron action. The Modron in the picture isn't even posing provocatively! Shame on you for getting my hopes up like that.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Shade]

I feel duped Shade. I looked at this thread expecting some hot Modron action. The Modron in the picture isn't even posing provocatively! Shame on you for getting my hopes up like that.

By their strict lawful natures, that is hot action.

 

[Shade]

Whoa...those facial features and expressions bear an uncanny resemblance to Master Shake of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Perhaps Shake is a rogue modron of a heretofore unknown type?

 

[NilesB]

"Pike it, berk!"


Never, in my 20 years (!!!!) of D&D, had I heard of Modrons before Planescape, so those *are* the only Modrons to me.

Neither your misfortune in only encountering incarnations of perfect order falsely depicted as rusting asymmetrical piles of mismatched junkyard scrap nor your attachment to embarrassingly bad mockney changes the facts of the matter.

 

[Ripzerai]

Neither your misfortune in only encountering incarnations of perfect order falsely depicted as rusting asymmetrical piles of mismatched junkyard scrap nor your attachment to embarrassingly bad mockney changes the facts of the matter.

The pictures in this thread are "rogue" modrons, modrons who have fallen from perfect Order in the same sense that fallen angels have fallen from perfect grace.

Regular modrons should be cleaner and more symmetrical. The fact that they're abstract Euclidean forms doesn't mean they can't have clockwork elements, however; such is appropriate to the Cartesian themes they represent.

That they're now classified as constructs rather than outsiders depresses me, however.

As for the Dragon cover: HOTT.

 

[Shemeska]

I feel duped Shade. I looked at this thread expecting some hot Modron action. The Modron in the picture isn't even posing provocatively! Shame on you for getting my hopes up like that.

Then I dare you to go invoke Rule 34 over on one of the *chans. Frighteningly enough you'll probably get what you want.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Uh, guys?

They're geometric shapes with legs!

Like 'em or don't like 'em, fine, but they are not going to look cool. Ever.

 

[LoneWolf23]

I've seen 1st edition artwork of Modrons before...

Weirdest effin' thing I've ever seen.

It wasn't until Planescape redesigned them as biomechanical creatures of Law that they started to make sense to me.

Clockwork creatures for the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus. Perfectly Logical.