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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6120110" data-attributes="member: 11697">Must they have a strictly defined "role" in terms of PC-centric use? I'm not sure that they need to in many styles of games. Things can fit a conceptual niche as part of the game universe without having to be there just to satisfy some interaction with the PCs.But, having said that, encountering modrons in Mechanus and slaadi in limbo, in their respective native environments is one. Encountering either of them in neighboring planes, in planar trade cities, in ancillary roles in the Blood War, etc. Modrons could appear on the material plane to construct some alien, nigh incomprehensible structure and simply refuse to speak to the natives, or be unable to relate to them if it's largely a group of monodrones or duodrones, with the PCs having to determine if the modrons' efforts will cause harm to the area, or might ultimately be there to stave off a massive demonic invasion.Slaadi on the other hand could appear on the material plane both to cause chaos for its own sake (which doesn't have to be destructive), or a single green or grey could be there for business of its own, seeking out an object. They don't have to be treated as slaadi, they can be like any other NPC with their own motivations and designs, albeit flavored by their status as exemplars of chaos. I tried to make this a little bit easier to work with in Pathfinder by having proteans be loosely organized in ever changing, ever shifting choruses that followed a specific mandate as determined by the priest-king keketars (such as the Chorus of Malignant Symmetry that acted to fight back against the Abyss which they view as a corruption of true Chaos, and which they themselves might have accidentally created or stumbled into and allowed into the universe). You could have lesser slaadi acting on the orders (when they saw fit to bother listening, and occasionally wandering off on their own exploits for the heck of it) of higher caste slaadi for similar things. I would also play up the notion of slaadi being not just about destruction, but about creation, artistry, and whimsy. Too often the slaadi have been portrayed as demons-lite, especially in 3e and 4e unless a specific author was playing back on their 2e development and going for a deeper exploration of them.</blockquote>

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