What do you think of Modrons?

[Mad Mac]

I can't take all these artwork references. Personally, I've never seen a Modron pic. Could somebody link me to something on Modrons so I know what the heck everybody is talking about? :\

 

[marionde]

I thought he and Brom were the best artists to happen for 2nd edition.

Agreed 100%

Thinking about Planescape without DiTerlizzi, is like trying to think of Darksun without Brom and Dragonlance without Elmore. I've bough a good deal of 3rd edition stuff, but none of it gives me the same feeling of awe as products from all three of those settings gave me during 2nd edition. The sense of wonder those artists where able to capture hasn't been repeated IMHO.

 

[marionde]

Tony DiTerlizzi's look at a rogue modron.

 

[Desdichado]

The sense of wonder those artists where able to capture hasn't been repeated IMHO.

D'oh! Now you've done it.

I always greatly preferred rk post's (he always wrote his name that way, too, didn't he? Who does he think he is, ee cummings? ) stuff to DiTerlizzi's. And frankly, I always thought Brom would have been an excellent addition to Planescape.

 

[Wombat]

I use as little Planar material as possible...

I am therefore negatively disposed towards almost all Planar creatures, including the modrons.

 

[marionde]

D'oh! Now you've done it.

I always greatly preferred rk post's (he always wrote his name that way, too, didn't he? Who does he think he is, ee cummings? ) stuff to DiTerlizzi's. And frankly, I always thought Brom would have been an excellent addition to Planescape.

Oh I like rk post's stuff too, it just doesn't give me the warm feeling in my pants that DiTerlizzi does.

 

[Piratecat]

Sure you're not just still overcompensating because your players walked away from the great modron march?

I killed all the modrons off and blamed it on the PCs. Now that's overcompensation.

 

[Mark CMG]

This is a wonderful idea for a subrace or anti-race of modrons inhabiting Limbo alongside Slaadi, or another mostly chaos based plane. The realm is angular and irregularly built, with obtuse angles, zig-zags, and fractal-like designs.

Don't wanna go there. That's where the Skewbeasts live.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I never liked the Modrons, in 1e when they were geometric shapes of extraplanar matter, they made some sense, but we still hated them. In Planescape, they became playable, mechanical (but not really) and overall sillier and even more of that "cutesy" play style that irked me. In 3e, I did not miss them in the least, I'm not a fan of Formians, but I think Inevitables are a better mark for planar law, if you want to go clockwork.

As mentioned, as the height of Planar Law, if they become less than they should be somehow altered, but instead we got tons of rogue-modrons, most of whom had litle lawful behavior at all.

They're probably the only planar race I really found dumb. I love Slaadi. Demons, devils, daemons, demodands (okay, maybe not demodands...) all had places, and the celestial races fit in well enough also.

 

[Shemeska]

As mentioned, as the height of Planar Law, if they become less than they should be somehow altered, but instead we got tons of rogue-modrons, most of whom had litle lawful behavior at all.

Don't know about that. Rogue modrons were still incredibly lawful, truly fixated on order to the point where they had difficulty understanding and interacting with other, less lawful races. Rogue modrons didn't become chaotic, they were simply declared rogue by virtue of having questioned their orders and breaking even in a marginal way, the heights of law that their race embodied.

The only rogue modron that I can think of who acted chaotic was Ylem, and he went rogue when he was attacked by a slaad and subsequently fused with the slaad egg that got implanted into him.