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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6121568" data-attributes="member: 22779">Actually, that's kinda my point.  That's not an area ripe for interesting conflict.  At least not for me because I don't know how to use these things.  I never, ever have.  They're inscrutable, which means their goals are ... well... opaque.  Which means I have no idea what makes them in conflict with the PC's.I can look at a vampire and think, ok, it wants to eat people.  That's a pretty easy hook.  Actually, that's a hook that works for a lot of creatures.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I can look at Formians and see the whole assimilation hook and that's pretty easy to work with.  I can look at a Chaos Beast and that's pretty easy to work with.Inscrutable not-necessarily-hostile NPC?  What's the hook?  It meets the party and then what?  It wants to paint rocks purple?  It wants to lay siege to a city to plant flowers?  What?  There's just nothing really there.  Fey at least have the whole trickster/eco terrorist thing going.  What do you do with a dryad?  Well, protecting it's tree is a pretty easy hook.  Add in a couple of wood cutters and you're good to go.  But, what do three Modrons want?  What's their motivation?  How is that motivation in conflict with the PC's?  Nobody knows because they're "inscrutable".</blockquote>

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