What are some cool and interesting things you have seen or think would be cool on the Moon of a fantasy setting?
Mostly because I need ideas
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What are some cool and interesting things you have seen or think would be cool on the Moon of a fantasy setting?
Mostly because I need ideas
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An alien colony from another dimension is always cool.
Giant swarm of black creatures who travel across the surface, thereby creating the phases of the moon
Very Ominous.
I like this one.
These are all good and can be used as points of interest in the same setting/campaig. /tg/ makes a hexcrawl on a fantasy moon when
this one is cool enough to steal
https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2020/09/ba-dwai-la-and-cats-bowl.html
Got a couple of funky moons of my own. One's basically a failed attempt at building anew sun (the original died a long time ago). Since the sun was once the lynchpin of time the moon's stillbirth happens over and over and over, hopeful white light consuming and blackening the flesh it burns on. Most of the time anyway, the experience drove the would-be demiurge mad so what exactly snuffs out its light varied from month to month. Another interesting thing is that it managed to claim dominion of the ocean and can be reached from there either by diving into the darkest tides or sailing over its reflection in the water.
iirc that was one of the genuine attempts at explaining the phases. Ridiculous until you consider the traction a mistranslation of "cannali" got.
Any Theia parallels?
Bumpgay fricks off. No idea why they'd try to prevent it.
It's not a moon, it's an eye
inhabited by the haughty children fo the moon godess whoa fter atemtipng to kidnap mommy got assblasted by the other godchilds at their peack
Moons Haunted.
In certain religious lore the moon(s) is/are the children of the planet in the same way the planets are children of their respective stars.
It has a gigantic thumb print on it.
Nobody knows why or how.
I once read about a fantasy game where the stars, sun and moon were actually holes in layered celestial veils, keeping something like the Plane of Fire out. (The players were demigods or gods or something, trying to prevent an eclipse.)
Good taste in reference.
>Good taste in reference.
I'm just glad someone here got it.
>I once read about a fantasy game where the stars, sun and moon were actually holes in layered celestial veils, keeping something like the Plane of Fire out.
Name please, this sounds based.
>The players were demigods or gods or something, trying to prevent an eclipse.)
What happens during an eclipse?
A city made of gold, because gold is the most abundant resource that they have. Sometimes they just throw it away, into trash bins that are themselves made of gold.
Their most precious commodity?
Mud.
They're also all really greedy and corrupt and will scheme and betray to get their hands on the heroes' muddy boots.
It's a giant ancient egg filled with swarms of gestating demons or one gargantuan alien monster. When the moon is in full phase it's nefarious embryo can impart some influence on the planet and drive some people mad.
Moon is a ancient prison/vault built by far greater beings sometime long ago. Powerful constructs, spirits, and abominations still guard it from anyone foolish enough to teleport there.
What about how the moon can affect the planet? Like, what if there’s two of them?
It's a twisted bizarro version of its planet
Horrible beasts and their servitor race that trade rubies to the planet-dwellers for new chattel.
Ruby-red aliens made of what almost seems like crystalline blood, and often found spire-like swarms. They can infest people if the proper protective rituals aren't followed.
My setting's moon is a landscape of shimmering crystals administered to by alien fae and space-faring bodhisattvas who hunt void-faring whales.
neat, what system?
GURPS
Hunt in the salvaged remnants of planetary space vessels
Space writhes with life in the setting. The void is full of animals.
Do they carry their harpoons?
Are there actually no whales so they tell tall tales and sing their whaling tunes?
I like this. It makes space feel more alive.
I did not know before reading it. Thank you for the recommendation.
Never knew much about pathfinder lore but this is actually decent lore.
>this is actually decent lore.
Well it's certainly wacky at least
I assume that since you're a weeaboo you know the Taketori Monogatari?
One of the few cool things in Golarion, the standard Pathfinder setting, is the Moon. The Moon in Golarion has a few interesting major features, these being:
>The City of the Faceless
>The Moonscar
The Moonscar was the Abyss's first attempt to invade the Prime Material Plane. The demons accidentally missed and open a portal on the moon. Now around the Moon Scar is an enormous demonic forest with an enclosed atmosphere primarily populated by succubi (as the queen of the Succubi was the one leading the invasion plan) and half breeds who were fathered by kidnapped mortals.
The City of the Faceless is a former prison colony. Thousands of years ago when the setting's equivalent of Atlantis still existed they would place their most dangerous magical criminals into a colony on the moon. Most of these criminals were immortal. When the empire collapsed the prison colony was still there, and the villains quickly overpowered the guards who now lacked the empire's support. These ancient Atlantean supervillains now run an enormous city on the moon that is the equivalent of magical space Vegas that makes use of vast numbers of succubi prostitutes.
A magocratic city of moon elves that protect the planet from alien invaders.
My fantasy world has multiple moons orbiting it. I felt it was a good way to make that world feel radically different from Earth.
There's also insane lunarians on one of them.
A sunken Dwarven Citadel from an ancient civilization hidden within a crater. Air sources and seals. Polished moonstone engineering. Seems hidden. The abandoned glory of an age where rather than diggy holes on the world be beneath, Dwarven Picks pierced the sky.
That’s actually pretty interesting as an idea. What would have happened to this dwarf civilization then?
Most modern dwarves, of course, scoff at the idea that dwarves could ever fly so high.
>dorgays
The moon is where werewolfs come from.
>You have deeply offended us and our god, and our god is a god of vengeance...and horror
>And action!
>Our god is an Indian that turns into a wolf
>That's Wolfen, man!
> Well...the Wolfen will come for you with his razor.
Back when pathfinder 1e came out I ran a game where two religions had drastically different interpretations of the moon. One believed the primordial giant the world was made from was beheaded and his head cast into the sky, and it forever wished to return and make itself whole.
The other believed the moon imprisoned the god of undead and all the stars in the sky were lost souls gathering to sweep over the living world. The sky goddess, embodied by the sun, would drape a blue veil across the world to shield it while the gods waged war upon the grand horde.
Both are true. To an extent. The primordial giants head is indeed the moon, and his emptied skull is indeed the prison for the unexpected stillborn god of undeath born of the giants undestined demise. Tho that got less of a reaction then the world they adventured on being a giant cosmic moth feeding from the giant's neckwound. But that's irrelevant.
The Moon is made out of cheese, literally. But the cheese is so old, it has gone bad, mold and fungus took root. Now lucid winds, fermented seas and psychedelic forests stretch from horizon to horizon, where visitors are no longer certain what is real and what is a hallucination.
There’s a giant observatory on the bright side of the moon, made of gold, silver, jade, lunar marble and all other valuable materials, with lenses made of gems and gears for days. It was made by ancient lunarians to look at the earth, and it can be used to watch in incredibly detail everything that happens down there. You could read a letter with the proper settings.
I've got three moons - the purple, green and silver moon.
The purple moon, known also as the evil moon, is by far the largest and oldest of the three. It was created by the sentient planet as a shield of sorts to safeguard it against meteors and alien invasions. It pulled one of its solar system's small planetoids with telekinesis, put it into its orbit and enchanted it with misfortune. Whenever a meteor or an alien fleet flew at it, it could just put the evil moon between them, and bad luck would annihilate the threat well on its way. The planet is hibernating now, so the moon's original function is forgotten and it merely causes misfortune wherever it shines when it's full.
The green moon is known as the harvest moon. It was the spaceship that the ancestors of elves originally arrived on, and it was alive and sentient. These spaceships grow on the cosmic tree that the elven ancestors live inside, and are used by them to travel the universe and destroy technology wherever it rears its head. Well, guess what, at the time of their arrival the planet was dominated by robots. A world war broke out, at the end of which the robots wounded the elven spaceship and sent it into a coma, stranding the elves on the planet. However, it's still alive and affecting the world with its magic. When it's full, everything grows, blooms and blossoms under its rays.
The silver moon is also known as the magnetic moon. It's the weapon that the robots used to kill the elven spaceship - a planet-sized satellite armed with a laser powerful enough to shoot through another planet. Thankfully, the satellite's been abandoned after the war, as the robots were dying in droves to the techno-plague devised by the elves against them. Now even if anyone arrived on the silver moon, they'd have to fight their way through robotic security and then figure out how to operate machines that are more complex than anything currently existing.
>how about schizo ramblings hallucating from heat stroke
>and the central character is underage boy
of course Ganker would love it
>thread about fantasy moon stuff
>post fantasy moon stuff
>somehow it's wrong
Are you gonna accuse me of being a pedo next?
No need to get defensive, I was not being ironic, that really is something Ganker could love.
But if you wanna get technical you really are wrong because Little Prince's adventuers take plance on planet(s) not a moon.
In my setting, the moon is where your soul goes when you die, thanks in part to a ancient structure on the surface known as the Needle, which shoots your soul up to a similar receiver structure on the moon once a month when the moon is full and directly overhead. As a result, the moon is full of undead of various types.
A group of undead have dedicated their time to attempt to reverse engineer the Needle to see if it will take them all back to the planet below.
>Moon is actually sleeping kaiju /x/ and you need to keep it from waking up by going innerspace but when you do you find remnants from the different cultures and civilisations it devoured at war with each other
Bit cliche but cliche is comfy and versatile
The moon is the cosmic egg of an eldritch multidimensional and primordial horror, feeding on the life force of the planet itself before cracking open and releasing its true form. Once the process is complete it will fill the earth with horrors, split it open with its bare hands and liberate [redacted] from its ancient prison.
However, elder civilizations build on the interior of this unhatched monstrosity an entire city, serving as control nexus in hopes of numbing its mind and taking over its body for their own purpose. They are long gone (or are they?), but the city is still functional and well defended by monstrous creatures, automated defenses and the will of the abomination, all fighting to get a hold of the mechanism.
The moon will hatch, there’s no stopping it. But it’s fate afterwards lies in that secret city underneath.
The moon contains and ancient alien super computer that’s decided to protect the solar system from its creators. With angels living in massive cities on it.
I've had two ideas.
One is a setting where in the ancient past, post-scarcity society mortals got into a war with the gods (they determined there was a greater than zero chance mortals might kill them and decided complete genocide was the necessary response). The main planet is completely devestated, with mortals seemingly bombed back to the stone age, but the Gods are crippled in the process unable to finish mortals off.
But a remnant of the post-scarcity society survives on a lunar colonies, and tunnels deeper into it to hide from the gods. They make a bunch of bioweapon monsters that might be used in a future war with the gods, and occasionally send probes to the surfacee world for information. They'd have a retro-future vibe to them.
The other idea is a setting meant to encourage indianna jones type adventures. Humans live on the moon, and have a roughly European culture, and are split into three factions, one fascist, one communist, and an alliance of monarchists. On the main planet live elves whose society mysteriously and suddenly collapsed a few centuries ago. Travel between the two is possible with airships/balloons (the atmosphere is just that big). Archaeological teams go to the elven planet to try to excavate ancient elven magic that might tip the balance of a future war.
The Moon is actually the netherworld, where the spirits of the dead roam, aimless and starving.
The moon is an entire dungeon made of ruins of an ancient civilization that inhabited it eons ago.
Characters fly over there using magical space boats, and there is a whole industry of exploration in search of artifacts that are used to power arcane technologies.
Only a few outposts of have been able to be secured on the moon due to the mutant abomination that live there, so only the few powerful explorers are allowed to venture it.
Permanent settling is impossible because living beings spending too much time eventually are turned into abominations themselves.
Maybe the Ark of Noah was actually a spaceship (colony ship) from a dying mars, that was crashed onto the moon after the majority of Earth settlement activities had concluded.
The moon is an illusion/hologram created to cover up the fact that the real one was accidentally destroyed
Objects of sufficient size are actually alive and have souls. Moons are usually asleep. Yours isn't
It's where goblins come from.
My setting has 83 moons, as it takes place on a terraformed Saturn. Not sure what is on most of them but the more benadryl-schizo the better. The only significant standout I have currently is a giant cocoon for a world ending butterfly, created by a psychic PC's evil clone's Uber-good clone.