What do you think of Modrons?

[edbonny]

Speaking of mechanical beings, robots are sort of hot now. The Transformers movie will be out in July and Warner Bros. is floating the idea for a Metal Men movie.

Not that modrons are robots or anything...

 

[LiKral]

I love them. So cute! Maybe a little too cute to represent the unbending forces of law. But goofy monsters are a vital part of D&D so let's not get too serious here!

 

[Desdichado]

Not that modrons are robots or anything...

Of course not. That's what we have warforged for.


D'oh.

 

[Sejs]

I like them, but I think they need more development beyond the shallow clockwork shapes thing they've got now.

They really need to nail down the whole unstoppable march of progress/everything as it should be/flawlessly in-tune with proper order thing. That'll make modrons better than they are now.

In other words: Good start, but needs work.

 

[Edgewood]

I like the idea of the modrons in their current incarnation. They would certainly be a departure from the usual fare of orcs and goblins and would certainly throw the PCs in my group for a loop if they encountered any.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

I really enjoyed them in planescape. Its a travesty they were replaced by boring bugs.

 

[PrinceXaxor]

I've always though modrons were pretty cool. The exemplars of law should be rather single minded and orderly, and the hierarchy of the modrons shows that perfectly. Yeah they are kind of cute thanks to DiTerlizzi, but there are plenty of serious planars out there already. It does make them easy to underestimate though. Meeting one would probably dispel any notions of cuteness however.

 

[Piratecat]

I love them with all my heart and body, including my pee pee.

GoooooOOOOOOO, MODRONS!

 

[Shemeska]

I haven't used them nearly as often as fiends, or even as much as slaadi, but I like them.

As far as popular perception goes I think they were unfortunately hamstrung by their goofy 1e artwork, but then again some folks fondly remember the flail-snail and flumph as being totally awesome despite the goofy artwork, so color me confused.

I don't care for them as constructs in 3.5 however. Outsiders with construct traits and some superficial similarities sure, but it doesn't make sense to me to have the exemplars of an outer plane as anything other than outsiders. Now it's plausible that we could say that the construct bodies are just shells through which the true outsider spirit (drawn from the energy pool in Regulus, or splinters of Primus perhaps) interacts with the world, but I'd prefer them as outsiders as opposed to trying to rationalize them as being constructs.

 

[Infernal Teddy]

I'm with Shemmy