MotP's Inevitables - ever used them?

[Moulin Rogue]

I haven't, but I think you could run a great "Terminator" plot around one.....

would you sic an Inevitable on a party of PCs who severely broke a "natural law", even if they didn't do it for selfish means - going to great lengths to cheat death is cited in MotP, but it's not much of a leap to include excessive abuse of other "natural laws" involving space and time.

 

[Kamard]

I would use a Marut, if only because I absolutely loved the story that one had in one of the monstrous compendiums from 2nd edition. It was given as a gift to a man's grandfather due to divinations performed that showed that some day, that man and his household would cheat death by sealing themselves against a plague that was ravaging the land outside their castle. The retinue, sealed against the disease, decided to go about the basements and such looking at all the great relics and trophies of the past, and came across the great gold and obsidian statue that the lord's grandfather had recieved and always thought was a marut. They made fun of it a bit, until it came to life and slew them all for defying the celestial order.

I always loved that.

So I would use the inevitables. I would however change the two that strike me as more robotic to more statuesque forms. I dislike robot D&D.

 

[Gez]

Well, there's another thing to see here: they are LN outsider. They may be more appropriate for some LN deity than modrons or formians as servants. There was a thread (I don't remember if it was here or on Wizards') about what a LN cleric of Red Knight (Forgotten Realms LN lesser goddess of nobility and planning) would call through planar ally. Apart from one-step servants (archons or devils), inevitable were the less inappropriate choice.

 

[Olive]

this touches on two things that are of concern to me...

a) i also like the idea of inevitiables, but hate robot D&D

and

b) all the major gods IMC are neutral somethign. so i have the same problem: what does the LN cleric call? a formian? i don't think so... how about a CN cleric? a slaad? hmmm...not really.

how about the TN greater god? ohhhhhh...not even a template!

 

[Wolfspider]

What exactly do you guys mean by "robot D&D"? Clockwork creations are a staple of some fantasy literature, and have been in D&D for a while now.

 

[reiella]

Well at least to me anyway.... Clockwork doesn't tend to produce the same ... overly anachronistic chrome-bots that I see in the inevitables. Of course, I do personally like the modrons, and it might just be me perfering them in general that taints my opinion .

That said though, I haven't used the inevitables, nor do I really have that many plans to use them (again Modrons are more my style), although I will concede that the inevitables could make better LN (at least the Mechanus style LN) minions for deities to employ. Much more imtimidating than the cutsey cubes.

 

[Siridar]

I haven't directly used them, but I have scared the bejezzus out of my players with a hint of one.

"Whatdya mean by... accept the consequences. Oh crap. He's lookin' through the Manual of the Planes. This can't be good."

 

[HeavyG]

Well, there's another thing to see here: they are LN outsider. They may be more appropriate for some LN deity than modrons or formians as servants. There was a thread (I don't remember if it was here or on Wizards') about what a LN cleric of Red Knight (Forgotten Realms LN lesser goddess of nobility and planning) would call through planar ally. Apart from one-step servants (archons or devils), inevitable were the less inappropriate choice.

That was me. Yes, less inappropriate choice is right.

The DM finally decided to use celestials with their alignment and alignment-dependent powers changed. And a slight shift in appearance (sparkling red eyes and metallic skin tone).

A less than satisfactory solution, IMO, but the only one we could think of.

Of course, if we ever have to fight a lich, I'm so calling an ally and praying for a Marut.

b) all the major gods IMC are neutral somethign. so i have the same problem: what does the LN cleric call? a formian? i don't think so... how about a CN cleric? a slaad? hmmm...not really.

how about the TN greater god? ohhhhhh...not even a template!

Other options :
- Elementals
- High level planar characters (I think the right term is 'proxies')


We do need a True Neutral template (Balanced creatures ?)

 

[Arken]

how about the TN greater god? ohhhhhh...not even a template!

Well we used t have the Rilmanni but then they got removed...I always liked them though.

If people were going by logic then they LN and CN characters would actually summon Slaadi and Formians (Modrons far better IMHO though ) I always thought that the idea was that each plane being of an unsplit alignment (ie CN, CG, NG rather than CCG or LLN) had a 'creature of belief. Namely Going from Elysium...Guardinals, Eladrins, Slaadi, Demons, Yugoloths, Devils, Modrons (now formians), Archons and then Rilmanni for TN.

Don't know what to do now though