What do you think of Modrons?

[Blind Azathoth]

I have a very great, irrational love for Modrons. I love them both when they're cutesy, goofy, comic relief rogues, like PST's Nordom, and when they're implacably, ineffably marching over orphanages and nunneries and old ladies in the street 'cause they happened to be in the way. I can't really explain why, but I adore them, and I mourn their shoddy treatment in recent years.

 

[lukelightning]

ineffably marching over orphanages and nunneries and old ladies in the street 'cause they happened to be in the way.

Yet they still avoid becoming evil. I wish my character could get away with killing people just because they were in the way...

 

[Blind Azathoth]

Yet they still avoid becoming evil. I wish my character could get away with killing people just because they were in the way...

Well, I'm sure they march over plenty of lemures not fast enough to get out of the way on the Lower Planes, too. It all balances out.

Plus, maybe the old lady was really a lich!

 

[der_kluge]

I've never had any interest in the modrons whatsoever. Monte Cook and Co. had to do some really Herculanean effort in The Great Modron March and the whole Tenebrous story overall to make them even vaguely palatable.

Even then, I really wish they'd used something else. Any detail on modrons is wasted space and effort to me.

You are dead to me.

Seriously, I don't know. I've always liked the modrons. But, I think they've taken some time to grow on me. I certainly don't care for Formian's as a replacement. So, in my multiverse, Modrons still run the show on Mechanus.

 

[Razz]

I like how people, once again, grate on the modrons looks and the other side of the fence calling them "cute". /sarcasm

Sure, the BASE MODRONS are like that. Once you hit Pentadrone and the Hierarch Modrons, I think you guys need to re-read their descriptions. Especially from Hexton and up, they're pretty intimidating opponents and awesome in style.

You guys can rag on the Mono-, Duo-, Tri-, and Quadrones all you want. I think it makes ya feel better to have a negativity toward modrons cause you saw a monodrone walk across the pages of your Modron March book or their silly drawings in 1E and can't accept how cool they really are once you move up in the ranks.

Of course, you could be a modron yourself as you can't seem to comprehend and fathom the possibility of modrons beyond Quadrone... (little modron joke there, for those that didn't get it)

 

[kenmarable]

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

GoooooOOOOOOO, MODRONS!

Ditto, of course.

And I heard the purpose of the new dark modrons are to flip out and kill people.

 

[Autumn]

Yet they still avoid becoming evil. I wish my character could get away with killing people just because they were in the way...

Well if your character was an unfeeling exemplar of pure Law, there'd be no problems with that. You'd probably get bored though, or at least I know I would. I prefer my characters to have consciences and dilemmas, rather than directives and processes.

On topic though, I like Modrons. When portrayed well, that combination of the slightly goofy, comic exterior masking the cold, hard core of absolute Law is definitely a winner.

That said, they're not too easy to portray well. Introducing them in a tabletop game would be somewhat nerve-wracking, for fear that I'd mess them up.

And as has been said, they definitely have no place outside Planescape. A more conventional DnD game should stick to Fiends and Celestials I'd say, and if the DM wants lawful exemplars then Inevitables would probably serve best.

 

[davidschwartznz]

Yet they still avoid becoming evil. I wish my character could get away with killing people just because they were in the way...

They make up for the orphanages and nunneries when they get to the Lower Planes and trample over torture chambers and drug dens.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I freakin' love Modrons. Can't get enough of the little fellas

 

[NexH]

While I like many aspects of the modrons, I dislike their appearance. I'd probably like them better if they were neither organic looking nor crudely mechanical; I would prefer simple floating Platonic solids, without any external features, to any depiction of them I have seen so far.