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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6121560" data-attributes="member: 2067">Dude, you quoted the post where I broke down the design space of these creatures. Dangerous, inscrutable, not-necessarily-hostile NPC's are an area ripe for interesting conflict. You know how to use these things. If 5e delivers on its central promises, it won't force anyone to do anything. It'll probably present the Great Wheel as a possibility -- potentially even the "default" -- but unless they're going back on their central design goals for this edition, it won't be presented as The Only Way To Do Things. Just maybe the way to do things if you don't want to think about other ways to do things.And again, I can't really blame them for that. If something needs to be cut for space and presented somewhere else later, modrons are a dang good candidate for that. Of course, 5 different herd animals, 8 kinds of horses, 4 kinds of elephant, normal and giant skunks....I think there might be a few things that could be cut instead, perhaps. But I do feel that as a fan responding to an article and not the company putting together the books, the decision of how much page count to devote to any particular creature or combo is a bit above my responsibility. If they've decided they have room for modrons, that's cool. If not, that's cool to.All I can do is make sure that I give the feedback so that, when and if modrons are ever presented, they're presented in a way that isn't going to ruin what's already fun about them. If that means bumping them from the first MM, okay, if they've got room, even better.</blockquote>

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