What do you think of Modrons?

[Dragonbait]

I like 'em, and those who don't are clearly agents of chaos and discord.

 

[EyeontheMountain]

I like the concept of them, and the heirarchy in 2E, but I overall, hate D&D's love of steampunk, so the current writeup of modrons does not suit me well.

 

[Aeric]

They're goofy-looking. I could never take them seriously.

On the other hand, you'd never need to buy modron miniatures. Just draw smiley faces on your extra dice and you're set!

 

[Dragonbait]

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

Keep in mind, that in the modron's mind, the modron march is on a set schedule that everyone should know. They know when exactly it starts, what plane they will be on and when, where they go, and when exactly it ends. It's not the modron's fault if people get trampled because they built their house in the path of the marching modrons. Also, the modrons do not go out of their way to wage war when they march, they are there to collect information. They will fight if someone attacks them.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I liked them a hell of a lot better in 2nd edition. The third edition take on them is just way too out there for my taste.

 

[TwinBahamut]

I never really liked them. The idea has potential, but I prefer the idea of complex floating crystalline polygons that was expressed on the boards here once, rather than the bizarre patchwork hivemind dice-golems that Modrons are according to the rules. I also have no particular fondness for fairly artifical attemtps to make them enemies like the Modron's March concept.

If they were crystalline beings that floated around, pondering deep mathematical and legal complexities, were intelligent and always spoke in verse, and used the light refracting through thier bodies to use prismatic effect attacks, they would be more interesting. However, they are not such a thing.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

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

GoooooOOOOOOO, MODRONS!

Damn near .sig worthy Piratecat.

 

[Sejs]

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

That's the difference, though.

They're not killing someone just because they got in the way. They're not even killing; they're just walking. If they encounter someone or something that would impede their walking, they just keep walking into or over it until it is no longer an impedement.

There's as much malice of intent in someone getting killed by the march as there is in someone getting killed by an avalanche.

 

[Oryan77]

I like them as supporting roles as NPC's...but not permanent. Also as someone said, they only work for Planescape. They would also get annoying fast. They would make great characters in a movie as comedy relief though.

I wouldn't let a player play one as a PC. I don't think most players could properly roleplay a Modron.

 

[Eloi]

Nordom Forever

After playing PST, I like Modrons quite a lot. The idea of a group of PCs picking out "Their" Modron, perhaps putting a hat on it or something (or draping a Continual Light-enhanced lei across it) and then seeing if they can get that one to be the survivor and champion of the March..

Well, it seems fun.