>>94363253
Sure, it's where the other piece of the terraforming colony ship crashed, and every so often its orbit takes it close enough that the moon monsters can fly down from the sky and terrorize the campaign world.

My setting's moon is a weird grape.

>>94363287
I bet it's pretty damn sour too.

>>94363253
It’s made up of skeletons.
If you die you respawn on the moon as a skeleton.
It was made as a holding facility by uncaring gods to not have to deal with the laws of thermodynamics when it comes to consciousness.
Now so many living things have died that the moon is moon sized.
There’s currently a very powerful entity working on turning the moon from the Skeleton Wars into a comfy afterlife, basically Skeleton Resort

>>94363253
My setting's moon is relatively normal (other than being the center of power for one of the setting's deities). The real problem is when the -other- moon shows up. It looks identical to the first moon, and in fact is a cosmic horror entity disguised as the first moon. So just make sure you never see two moons at once, or shit's about to get weird.

Three different moons, depending on how strictly you consider what a moon is.

For strictly lunar moons, there's two. One closer, the other further. The further one has a near-rectilinear halo orbit which makes certain seasons uncharitable for sea travel. Particularly Firstwinter, which is a sort of demi-season between fall and winter.

The third moon isn't strictly a lunar body, it's just a dense cloud of debris where a great structure once was. It's not really a moon in terms of mass, either, but the field is broad enough and the material reflective enough that it sometimes can present as a "ghost moon" that rarely appears.

Though it's not widely known within the setting of my current game, the world has an artificial moon made entirely of silver constructed in such a way that its orbit created a spell circle around the planet that prevented extraplanar travel and extraterrestrial demons from entering, but had a gateway called the crucible of souls guarded by death itself that ushered beings on a one-way trip into the realms beyond. Death was supposed to be an impartial Shepard but some fiends had slipped through the gate somehow and were conspiring to help more of their kin cross the borders. He also had a collection of Jars where he kept truly exceptional souls that "couldn't be allowed to be lost" to the realm beyond. An unintentional consequence of the moon was the argent meridian and the sea of tranquility: a null zone around the equator that magic failed in and prevented magical travel and communication from passing between the northern and southern continents.

>>94363253
Mine has this uncanny statistically improbable property.
The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun but it's 400 times closer to the campaign world. This means that from the world's surface, the the sun and moon appear to be the same size.
During a rare, total solar eclipse, the moon blocks the sun precisely, leaving only the sun's corona visible as a perfect fiery ring.
Exactly like our world. Which is what it is.
There is nothing weirder than our moon.

>>94363253
>Tell me about your setting's moon, anon.
Why should anyone do that?

>>94365162
Why are you even on this board?

>>94363253
It's made out of nails, bumpfag.

>>94365283
Why are you, nogames?

>>94365336
>nogames
Take your meds.

>>94365138
I think about this a lot and how insanely statistically unlikely our moon and the total solar eclipse actually is. Even more so than life on Earth. One of those mystifying facts of nature.

>>94363253
I've been looking through a few different
>weird moon
bits to see what's salvageable for an actual game. Into the Wyrd and Wild has a fairly simple weird moon phase section that's as far as I can tell a ripoff of warhammer fantasy. It seems okay although lacking in any mechanics.
Gackling Moon is sort of a fun read but seems hectic to implement or run as a game, its an art project wrapped around a game theme but the amount of usable material for something that happens in a campaign world with any regularity is going to be difficult.
The oracle drop table about constellations in general from Bring Me Her Bones has been fun in an inspirational way a few times, I was using that as a monthly-in-game time theme but it was more flavour than implementable.

Really its about what a weird lunar effect would be in a way that fits the game world, is interesting but not so obviously disruptive it makes the game world implausible to persist over time, unless you want to make it a very rare event. Which honestly seems like the way to go at this point.

>>94363253
The moon is shattered in the sky, like if you dropped a dinner plate. No one is sure how that happened, because it isn't an actual planetoid, but a luminous part of the firmament. It seems to have been a casualty of the war between the gods and the heretics. Other than being a permanent reminder of that war, it still functions as a source of light and means of judging the passage of time.

it's amazing that I said this thread is inane spam and I got a warning
choke on a cock you fucking tranny jannies

>>94366864
>it's amazing that I said this thread is inane spam
That really is amazing. How did your parents manage to produce such a raging faggot?

>>94363253
I haven't given that much of a fuck about it, other than the fact that there's certainly some sort of big base.
Some powerful beings that ruled the planet for hundreds of years eventually reached a transcendence of sorts, all of them decided to leave the planet right afterwards, at least one of them settled on the moon.

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>>94363253
My setting is post-apoc Earth, and the party are unlikely to ever reach the Moon, but there are certainly adventures to be had there among the ancient starship refueling stations, communication arrays, military bases and research labs potentially responsible for at least half of why the world ended. But tread lightly, for these structures are body and mind alike to synthetic gods of silica and electrons.

>>94368072
>spammer having a power trip with janny cock in his mouth
>went to cry to your friends like a bitch yet? boo hoo my post is still up
>imagine sucking trannies off on discord so you can spam /tg/ all day. do you give them your welfare money to get the pet treatment or is it just that you're all faggots?
>why don't you just kill yourself and take your whole nigger family with you? do a service to the world for once you piece of shit
Meds WILL be taken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo

>>94363253
You first, bumpfag.

>>94363253
Yeah, it's a giant eyeball, but it's been blinded. The sun still casts its fiery gaze on the world during the day, but the moon only smoulders.

>>94363253
Well, the setting is geocentric, so the sun is also technically a moon. Does that count?

>>94363253
My setting has thirty-four moons, the tragic consequence of a bit that got way out of hand. Because I am a psychotic narcissist, I have a blurb on every single one. Many of them aren’t exactly moons, per se, but they’re all orbiting bodies visible from the planet’s surface, so that’s good enough for me.


Originally I was going to copy/paste all 34 blurbs but apparently that’s over 10x 4chan’s message limit so here’s just the list, and as many descriptions as I can fit.


Tormwatch
Crown
The Boneyard (formerly known as Godskull, known as Vthum by its inhabitants)
Valkur
Keito
Drumelzier
The Unconquerable Domain of Ruminex
Sharess
Martin
Exegesis
Keito II
Keito
Faelin
The fourteenth-largest celestial body in orbit around the planet
Hellmouth
Jergal
Savras
Keito
Devon’s Anomaly (Not a moon but it’s considered one because of its gravitational impact on the others)
Lurue
Writhe
Ruminex
Gwaeron
Shakur
Lr___ Ale_
Keito
Whalebarge
Siamorph
Glisten (aka the CIF Genesis) (no longer in orbit)
Jharthraxyn
Bor’s Rock
Wink
The Knight (Captain Michael J. Perry of the USAF)

>>94368904
Forgot to attach any of the descriptions, actually, so here are a couple to prove I’m no liar:

Tormwatch
The largest celestial body in orbit around the planet, but not particularly visible due to its extremely dark coloration and peculiar orbit: instead of orbiting the planet itself, it appears to orbit the L2 Lagrane point, perpetually hanging “away” from the sun. Visible mostly as a starless patch of sky, though fissures on the surface of Tormwatch often give it the illusion of maintaining color with the rest of the night sky. Not an ancient moon, having appeared only a few hundred years ago during the Hellwar of 1666. The moon is credited for stymying all methods of accessing the planet that originated from Katachon, and is said to be the severed head of [TORM], the now-dead archon of Justice. While scant few eyewitness reports recount its appearance in the heavens, an occultist by the name of Hjallberecht Vykonsnoughest wrote an account of Tormwatch’s appearance, maintaining that it positioned itself in the heavens as if aware. Approximately 2% of the human population experiences periodic nightmares where Tormwatch assumes a bright red glow and approaches the planet with startling speed. No manned expeditions have been deployed to Tormwatch.
Crown
Formerly the largest celestial body in orbit and still by far the most visible, Crown is a largely featureless rockball with a yellowish hue, in many ways similar to our own moon, if slightly larger. The crater patterns on Crown have changed drastically in the past several thousand years, which confused the hell out of archeologists for a while. One manned expedition has been deployed to Crown, but after a flyby probe revealed an enormous fissure in the backside of crown and scattered footage suggested that the celestial body was, in fact, hollow, no further expeditions have been deployed.

Damn, message limit’s smaller than I thought.

>>94368974
Aw fuck I’m commandeering this thread and dumping the rest
God knows the players probably aren’t going to read this shit


also there are only 27 moons oopsie

The Boneyard, or, Godskull, or, Vthum
Originally known as Godskull due to the distinctive skull-shaped crater pattern upon its surface, the moon has come to be known as Boneyard since the whole decapitation of [TORM] business and the discovery that a tremendous amount of junk, seemingly accumulated from simply drifting through space, littered the surface of the planet. The Boneyard is actually inhabited by an intelligent alien species referring to themselves as Vthumites. Vthumites have been observing life on the planet for a very long time, and have initiated contact with the few nations that maintain respectable space agencies. They have access to very advanced technology and a very, very advanced understanding of necromancy, which they have used to turn the Boneyard into a magnet for carrion and refuse floating through space. They are largely disinterested in worldly politics though sometimes invite powerful necromancers to visit their loping corpse-cities. Vthumites themselves resemble worms approximately the size of a human arm with six flagella on their “front” end, but are almost never seen outside of their ‘shells,’ which are carefully constructed undead automata that serve as environment suits, ablative armor, and fashion statements all at once. The Vthumites claim to be responsible for the stability of the planet’s highly-volatile lunar network. No expeditions have been deployed to the Boneyard by the Vthumite’s request, but they do sometimes bring people around.

>>94369188
Keito
The first of several, this planet is largely covered in a thick layer of sand, giving it an unnaturally smooth look compared to many other moons. Occasionally a meteor will hit Keito, causing a spray of sand visible from the planet. The first manned expedition marks the first (public) discovery of extraterrestrial life that didn’t come to the planet first, as Keito’s sand is inhabited by a peculiar, planetwide biome of bacteria and bacteriophages in a constant arms race with one another. Very nearly caused a major health crisis when scientists inspecting the cosmonaut’s suits put two and two together, but now a site of some interest for those of more mundane medical inclination who believe bacteria to be the forefront of medicine. Generally considered a low-priority venture.
Drumelzier
A somewhat-worn gray octahedron that naturally turns the eye of any planetside viewers away unless they are specifically searching it out. Its surface is pitted with impacts and its corners have lost their sharpness. Said to be the resting place of the legendary Merlin. Every mission intended for or diverted to Drumelzier has met with highly improbable catastrophic mishaps that ultimately made the venture impossible. Unmanned probes are always at just the wrong trajectory or suffer untimely camera outages. Most forms of divination are incapable of perceiving the thing. Always gradually tumbling, but occasionally speeds up or slows down with no discernable input.

>>94369208
The Unconquerable Domain of Ruminex
Said to be the most secure fortress in existence, allegedly created by the dormant beast Ruminex (hence the name). Those who ponder too long upon this tremendous, carved asteroid become affixed with the notion that, should they make it inside, all their problems will be solved. During the Hellwar of 1666 a tremendous contingent of Devils teleported upon the fortress in an effort to break in. Many of their corpses still hang in space, joined by the ambitious and mad few that have directed manned expeditions towards it. Some sleeping dragons are best let lie.
Sharess
Named for an archon of sex and prostitutes who was killed during the Hellwar. An off-red fulminating orb boasting frequent, visible lightning storms and a thick greenhouse atmosphere, the one manned expedition to this world discovered very quickly that its atmosphere was… Corrosive? The reports are both highly disturbing and unclear, with different crewmembers attesting that the atmosphere was corrosive, poisonous, carcinogenic, incendiary, and, most agreed-upon, malevolent. No further expeditions are planned at this time.
Martin
Another unremarkable rock ball. Some maintain that it has a slight blue tint to it. This topic frequently starts trivial arguments. Said to be named after a peasant named Martin, who improbably averted a famine and revolutionized crop rotation practices due to a head injury that induced terrible short-term memory loss (this is the most common version of the myth, anyway). When offered anything he wanted, he said he wanted a moon. The target of one manned expedition, mostly to prove that it was possible, but otherwise largely ignored. Several species of genetically-modified reptile have a propensity to stare at Martin for extended periods of time, for reasons yet unknown.

>>94369188
Just put it in a pastebin dude

>>94369219
Exegesis
A dustball with a thin but tenacious atmosphere and almost-interesting geographical features. Some of its basins boast pools of liquid butane that some observers believe to be fostering primitive life. Inexplicably popular topic of comparison for various things in countless poems.
Keito II
The name Keito is an odd one for showing up across numerous ancient human cultures with no ties to one another as a name of significance. Specifically, several ancient cultures referred to the moons (or specific ones) as Keito. When the global astronomical council met to codify the proper names of the moons, various cultural delegates refused to permit ‘their’ Keitos names to change. The only exception were the Vhradnik sea-peoples, who happily took the name Keito II (and in fact requested a larger number, but were ultimately denied it when nobody else would accept a number). Has a staggeringly large crater in it that gives the moon the appearance of a blind eye. Rumors abound as to what caused the crater. The sole manned expedition suffered extreme electromagnetic interference despite not anticipating any, and had to get bailed out by an experimental spacecraft, the process of which killed most of both crews. Four cosmonauts survived, and “Alone with the Stares,” a retelling of their trials, would go on to become the single most purchased printed romantic comedy novel ever.
Keito
A volcanically-active bowling ball with an anomalously decaying orbit that should have collided with the planet millenia ago. The Vthumites claim they are responsible for preventing this. Extremely hazardous environment, but scant life does exist on the moon. Its intelligence has yet to be assessed, though it is commonly believed that these lifeforms were either originally slaves of or later enslaved by the devils during the Hellwar. No expeditions planned at this time.

>>94369220
Fuckin forgot about those
Serves me right fucking around with a touchscreen

>>94363253
The moon orbits the toroid-shaped world with a figure-eight path through the hole in the center, and it's actually a prison for a god of mischief who is also the devil-analog of the setting. He's trying to manipulate adventurers into setting him free by rigging the conditions at the four elemental gates around the toroid to be perfectly right when the moon lines up at the center.

>>94369220
Let him cook, faggot. It beats bfag keeping this thread up for over a month.

>>94369505
This enemy exists only in your head.

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>>94366717
>Moon is shattered
>No one is sure how it happened

>>94363253
Occasionally, some assclown comes down (from the Moon) and steals people's eyes.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/7vRyB057JbA6/

>>94363253
Humanity awakens to a force in the universe that allows them to finally see what the universe looks like. The Moon is then revealed in its true form to be an artificial satelite with a habitable atmosphere along with Venus and Mars and ancient architecture from an unknown race.

So I have a fairly typical fantasy setting. Kingdoms, Knights, Wizards, Dragons, Ancient civilizations and the ruins they left behind in the form of dungeons. All that good stuff.

The setting has two moons. One of them is white, one of them is a pale purple. The pale moon is the one that would seem more normal from the surface of the world. It's a big pale orb in the sky.

The purple moon, from the surface of the world, seems like a stranger one. It's surface shifts, or as some doomsayers like to proclaim, writhes. The colors change slightly. There are dark and light spots that seem to grow and shrink with no real pattern.

The purple moon has an atmosphere and can sustain life, but the primary form that takes is various forms of lichen that are primarily purple.

The pale moon is actually the weird one. It's also habitable. And there are people living up there. An offshoot of one of those ancient civilizations.

There's the normal moon and then the green moon. The green moon was a last ditch effort to abandon Earth. A generational ship meant to traverse the stars and terraform a suitable planet elsewhere. Instead it failed to leave orbit due to manufacturing errors that resulted from an attempt to cut costs. The humans left on the ship eventually degenerated into violent tribal societies that fight to take and keep control of vital resources and functionary rooms of the ship.

It contains the Summer and Gloaming courts of the Fey, which show as the light and dark sides of the moon from the outside. Ever since the Queen of Air and Darkness was assassinated a few centuries ago, it has appeared as a full moon 24/7, causing crescent representations of the moon to fall out of general knowledge.
In addition, it rises high out of sight in the Winter and lowers below the horizon in the Summer, going god knows where (it's visiting the evil and good planes, bringing back water from the Styx on either side of the universe).

>>94363253
I got two settings that are relevant.
1. Alien terraforming device from some other world that was meant to hit and envelope ours. Luckily it was stopped before making contact with our world, but the invaders like to chuck shit at our world to try and build a foothold. If they figure out a way to connect we’re screwed as their world is utterly inhospitable to earth live.
2. A little Ymir, a little Gaia. Sky and earth made everything but earth kinda got sick of being the one carrying everything and got betrayed by his wife and godkids which saw him beheaded. His decapitated head kinda wants to return to his body, so his wife keeps it at bay since it also used a a prison for their un/stillborn child that is the source of undeath. The phases of the moon are seen as him trying to break free and lead his legions against the living. Which are how stars are interpreted. The biggest glowy object is the evil god and he has a whole lotta little lights waiting for the go signal. Better pray so the sun can rise up and erect its azure barrier to hold them off another day!

>>94363253

Over 50 million people lived on the Moon. Alongside Earth's Orbital Ring and O'Neil Cylinders it is the heart of Earth's space efforts.

>>94363685
So what's at the core of the skeleton moon? Have there been so many skeletons and time that the original have been ground to dust, thus making a moon-like surface? Where do the bones come from? Just a sudden spawning of a skeleton from nowhere? Do they live on top of one another? Do they have houses made of bones that have their own consciousness? So many questions

>>94365897
Funny you should mention life on Earth. The moon hasn't always been in the exact spot it is now. Only at the one moment in geologic time when there were beings on the planet's surface intelligent enough to notice it AND work out how improbable it is.
I'd be more likely to believe the Moon was made of cheese than what we've got going on.

>>94363253
My setting had a several moons. Each is tied to one or two gods & holds sway over powerful forces. Like instead of tides being controlled by gravity & whatnot, only one moon actually controls the tides & the Ocean Goddess lives there. One moon shines with golden light & serves as the sun (the world is earth centric) spinning quickly across the heavens. Beyond the Earth & it's cluster of celestial satellites is the field of stars (also a physical layer, as in you could fly out & touch a star if you had the right tech/magic) is the gulf of night & the black nothingness from which horrible nightmares dwell.

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So when any of you have told this to your players, has it done anything other than
>huh, cool I guess?
and moved on with whatever the game was? Not to be overly antagonistic, I'm more interested in ways people have used their ideas over just reading a bunch of moon themed micro fiction.

>>94372408
Of course. Moon is the endgame dungeon.

>>94372408
It's part of my world. It's there in case the player ever interacts with it.

>>94372812
Post dungeon.
>>94373244
How would they do that? What would the interactions be? Which lunar micro fiction are you?

>>94363253
You go first, OP. Tell us how it works in your setting

Greyhawk has two moons. The large moon, Luna is sort of a "Land of the Lost" deal hidden behind thick clouds except the creatures are more giant insects and spiders than dinosaurs. The smaller moon, Celene or Kule, is more like Earth's moon but with ruins of an ancient magic using civilization and it has an Underdark where a lot of the creepy "another world" dungeons are located if any players ever manage to physically escape them.

>>94363685
Reddit as fuck. Can you weirdos stop trying to ruin skeletons and make them heccin wacky goofy wholesome bros!!1!1!1!2

>>94373244
Prove it

>>94365336
This board has been like this since the very first day it was created, newfag.

>>94377102
No.

>>94363253
No, fuck you you Subversive fag,

>>94363253
No, as it takes place on an infinite plane. However there are complex astronomical phenomena sort of like the northern lights, and "the heavens" are a physically real place, very far up.

>>94363253
The campaign's over, but from session 1, I had the moon as the body of a sleeping god. I thought it would never actually matter.
But then the players found a monster that passively distorts reality around it to its liking that they didn't want to kill. They elected to send it to the moon!
They contracted a bunch of wizards and druids to make a box with a ton of delayed-cast Reverse Gravity spells that would go off in sequence to, with the right timing, "fall" up all the way to the moon.
They spent a lot of time and resources to make it happen. They dusted off their hands and were proud of a job well done.
Near the very end of the campaign, they learned of the moon's nature. By then they learned that powerful creatures of any kind passively distort reality around them to their liking. The gods are in heaven, except for the moon but since it is asleep, so that passive thing mostly doesn't happen in the world.
After the campaign was over, they scried the creature to see how it was doing. They found the creature had walked out of the box and then fell over asleep, just like the sleeping god. It would sleep there for the foreseeable future.

>>94363253
The Moon in this setting is meant to be a sort of psychological mirror into the mind of the viewer, and depending on how they percieve it, and how they "feel" the moon is looking at them acts as a tell about who they are on the deepest insides.
This is important because there's a lot of NPC's who aren't worth trusting and asking them about how they feel about the Moon can be a good way to learn more about them without them realizing it. Not only that, but it's the subject of worship by a few very important NPC's who believe it represents how humans need to "reflect" God's light the same way that the Moon reflects the light of the sun.
>>94372408
It's a game mechanic so it's pretty important

>>94377538
So it didn't matter at all what the moon was, it was just a thing to tell the players after the campaign was over.
>>94377618
How is it even remotely useful if everyone knows about it? Don't talk to strangers about the moon, anyone asking about the moon is trying to fuck you over. No one would talk about it. That's not even a mechanic, its a story element.

>>94363253
It's covered in the ruins of an ancient hyper-advanced magitech civilization. If you are a bad enough dude you can get a wizard (as in one specific guy) to teleport you there and back in exchange for a fee and giving him first dibs to buy any loot you're selling.

>>94376221
>How would they do that?
Players do weird shit. But off the top of my dome, what if one of them gets the impulse to teleport to the moon.

>What would the interactions be?
Depends on the nature of the interaction, my guy.

>Which lunar micro fiction are you?
Whichever one makes you the most likely to kill yourself.

>>94377825
It sort of mattered in the end. I set up a fight for the players to fight a bunch of gods while ascending to godhood themselves. The moon could have woken up to fight them, but they ended up with 5 other gods instead. The moon one was just barely off the list, essentially.

>>94376221
>How would they do that? What would the interactions be? Which lunar micro fiction are you?
They would interact with the moons followers, whos nature is informed by how fucked up it is. In my case, the moon serves as an arbiter over hell so if my players fuck around with the devil they'll get a visit from moon paladins, or if they play with too much dark magic, a moon rock.

>>94377978
So nothing. Good to know.
>>94377999
Did the players even know or have anything to do with that? Doesn't sound like it.
>>94378021
lol some other nogames already answered your post.
Have your players ever gotten a visit from the moon paladins? Do they even know they exist?
Neither of you posted your moon dungeon you're never going to use.

>>94378038
Why are you such a seething little bitch. Go back to whatever general you came from chief bittercuck

>>94363685
>It’s made up of skeletons.
>If you die you respawn on the moon as a skeleton.
Cool
>It was made as a holding facility by uncaring gods to not have to deal with the laws of thermodynamics when it comes to consciousness.
What's up with worldbuildfags being fanfic tier writers?
That internet comic joke about removing panes is true. Trim your fat or it's literary wank.

>>94378280
He's a bitter nogames, angry at the idea that someone who's actually running a game might have put thought into their world beyond what the players might immediately encounter.

>>94363253
In my current games setting, they used to have a second moon. After the end of a calamitous war against the gods, the war was ended when the strongest bomb ever built destroyed it.
I'd like to have the chunks of moonrocks to have some kind of special powers but I'm not sure what yet.

>>94378038
It doesn't sound like it because I'm being succinct and leaving out details for the sake of time and readability.
But yeah, they totally learned about it and did all the things of their own volition.

>>94363253
>normal moon
>pale blue moon that never sets
Blue moon is actually the old palace of the gods. Setting is about either killing or sealing away gods and the final confrontation to whatever faction the players don't side with will be on/in the moon.

>>94377163
>admits to being a nogames
Lol, nogames has no games!

>>94363253
Moon is fake.

It is an insane goddess, who become a font of spiritual corruption after taking in Humanity's original sin, arrogance, into herself. Her husband and head of the pantheon, the sun god, leads a constant struggle against her with an army of their children.

When he is forced to retreat, the real light of the moon falls across the land and very bad things happen.

The closest equivalent to hell in the setting is a kingdom that a chunk of the moon fell to and created basically a bosch painting on earth

Always fear the dark moon, Ranni...

>>94378364
Yeah, you've posted repeatedly to save time. While replying to a post asking for detail.
Good job you idiot.

>>94378280
>>94378290
>ideas guys who have nothing to say need to jerk each other off
This and you are actually why the board is dying. Heaven forbid anyone actually want to talk about gameplay on the traditional games board.

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>>94379931
God, Elden Ring is so fucking retarded with its cosmological prioritizing.

Staring at the moon requires more intelligence than staring into deep space? REALLY? Is Miyazaki just a Sailor Moon femininity faggot or something?

>>94377965
See, even this, which is trying to get closer to an idea that comes up in the fucking game, is hinged on one thing that might never come up.
Are you going to have them meet the wizard who can get to the moon?
Do the players even know its an option?
What would they do there in terms of a game session?

>>94363253
Post apoc setting
It’s our own real moon but tou can see it when it’s dark or in the new moon covered in lights
if you look at in detail it it’s disturbing.
Several large atomic sized explosions go off on a weekly basis and the damage which should be ludicrous is repaired within a few days
If you try and measure the light emitting structures you quickly realise that the sheer scale of them is immense and greater than the remains of any civilisational infrastructure that possibly existed in the known world


Supposedly replica such as princess Kaguya or other far more abominable old machines come from there

Religious texts about the moon are also insane and state that because of the sins of humanity it has oceans of seamen worms mercury and rotting flesh granted eternal life

>>94379975
It's probably because the moon is implied to be a sort of intelligence itself, being selective about who gets to see it. All sorcery is alive, or acts like a living, seeking lifeform, in-general however. Azur's signature sorcery might actually be more quality than Rennala's own, since it takes up three spell slots.

>>94372408
Yeah. Back from earlier:
>Character was a Vthumite in his undead golem/suit, operating on orders from his corpse-city. Had a one-time-use recall spell to bring himself and anything in a meter of him home. Ended up stealing the artifact everyone was going for (only to realize he stole a fraud).
>Delved a dungeon on Writhe (a magically-displaced series of classrooms) and the CIF Genesis (a space station - also entirely a dungeon, they knocked it out of orbit)
>Savras is named after a player’s cat

>>94380003
Sounds fucking lame

this is almost as bad as when you made a thread about fucking whales.

>>94363253
Actually, my setting has SIX moons!

It's a homebrew Spelljammer world with four main planets. The NOT-Earth world has a single moon like ours, the desert world has two since it's basically Mars, then the forest world opposite of NOT-Earth has three moons.

>>94363253
There is no Moon. It got blowed up.

>>94377825
Well retard it's not like EVERYBODY knows about it. It's secret knowledge held by wizards and stargazers, who are notorious for being extremely cagey with what they know

>>94385314
So it never comes up in your game. Got it.

All this lunacy is just a throw away line in your
>welcome to Fant

>>94387191
Heh, lunacy...

>>94387191
Stop being so angry lol

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>>94363253
Can two habitable worlds orbit each other and still have lunar phenomena like tides that don't kill everyone and solar eclipses, without any handwavey magic stuff about how a god or wizard did it? Asking for a friend.

>>94388019
Eclipses sure, if anything they'd be more common due to the other body being larger than our moon is, but for tides it's extremely difficult because the orbital mechanics of two bodies that large would result in them becoming tidally locked with each other. This will eventually happen with the Earth (the moon is already locked with the Earth, I'm talking the other way around) but the moon is small enough that it won't happen until the sun becomes a red dwarf. Conversely, Pluto and Charon are already tidally locked with each other, and Charon is about half the diameter as Pluto. Larger bodies orbiting each other would accelerate the process. It's possible for them to not be tidally locked, but they would be young enough that sapient life would not develop without handwavey magic stuff.

If your setting has binary planets then it's best to assume they don't have any tides as we know them: both would be tidally locked to each other with higher sea levels permanently on the sides of the planet facing each other and directly away from each other.

>>94388019
Do either of them have any other satellites, or are they the sole satellite for one another?

Are they orbiting a star, or a larger planet?

>>94363253
Long ass time ago, the first troll got so huge and ravenously hungry that the current Uber Gods had to throw it into the void, where it couldn't escape the light of the sun and turned into the moon

>>94365283
To discuss topics regarding tabletop games. So, to this end, I'd like to know why anyone should spoonfeed OP information about some "setting's" moon.
You do know that discussion is more than just putting ideas into a void, don't you?

Why is this guy so bitter?

>>94363287
I read this as "a weird gape".
Now I'm horny. Thanks anon.

>>94392627
>Why is this guy so bitter?
He thinks he deserves all the good parts of classic /tg/ without contributing anything except a hall-monitor attitude. Seems insane but he actually patrols the board looking for threads to complain in, rather than making threads he considers good. He seems to believe his whining will cause everyone to only make the threads he likes.

So what's the magic system like on your moon?

>>94393707
dangerously cheesy

>>94393707
Magitek. It's all magitek on the moon.

>>94392854
The winning move is to always be horny.

>>94393707
Magic is on the planet, the moon is all sci-fi.

>>94363253
You can get there by boat if you know how. There’s a kingdom of miserable people up there convinced that they would be even more miserable everywhere else (they make a good point), as well as a few divine servants and a great beast. However, it looks like any normal moon… sun-sized white-grey plate in the sky.
Ah yeah, and dreams happen when a moonborn nature spirit is dragged down into your body, which is a natural process of thinking beings. Try not to worry about it, or else it might get stuck.

>>94363253
Two moons
One is cracked because the second one hit it. Part of it forms a ring around the planet
The other doesn't have spherical form either and is not actually a naturally formed celestial body but something similar to a space hulk (a bunch of ships fused together plus rock and shit) but players don't know this nor probably ever will

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>>94363253
There are two moons, the White Moon and the Black Moon. Most people only care about the former and will only notice the latter a few times in their lives, if they're lucky.

The White Moon is like ours. It is predictable like ours. It is airless and lifeless, but holds secrets and treasures, horrors and shadows.

The Black Moon is different. There are astronomers and astrologers who could spend their lives attempting to predict it, all will fail. The Black Moon is incredibly erratic in size and position, at times large enough to be noticed as it blocks out certain stars, at others it is small enough to slip between them and through the void of night.

Then are times when everything sees the Black Moon.

The Eclipse.

The Black Moon hangs in front of the Sun, blocking out all light except for a thin blood-red outline, casting the land with a red tint and long shadows.

In forgotten shelves of ancient libraries, in hidden chambers of secret tombs, there still exist strange rituals and eldritch writings that can entice the Black Moon, predict or birth an eclipse. There are even whispers that, with a burnt offering of mythical proportions, the Black Moon can be beckoned forth to block out the entire Sun and plunge the world into night.

Scrying and teleporting to the Black Moon nearly always fails. Almost always. Only brief insights and visions, lasting no longer than a heartbeat, can be gleaned from maddened rituals.

They speak of bleak cathedrals, towering spires, labyrinth streets, a city carved from black stone that drinks in the light, visible only by the bright sun that crosses the horizon, revealing that this bleak, empty, lifeless cityscape stretches on beyond sight, beyond imagining.

>>94363253
No, just all the normal moon things. The nomadic lycanthrope tribes call it "Fae Varth" though, and it's every generation's Mineral Warrior's duty to watch it every night, because none of the others can bare to do so.

>>94371994
The center is high density crushed bone dust.
Everything is made out of (sentient) bones.
However, this includes barely sentient animals who make up the bulk of the moons surface, humanoids tend to have more willpower and ingenuity to pull themselves together, liters, also humanoids haven’t been around that long.
Ofthen they try to build societies there, with varying degrees of success.
Skeletons spawn out of nothing as an identical copy of your skeleton, they usually fall from the sky, as they fall upwards from the main planet.
>>94377102
It’s my table I do what I want.
It’s based on a dream I once had and liked the idea.
And it helps to make the afterlife coherent and not having to deal with some DnD bullshit of 5 godzillion afterlives.
You get the Bone Moon, go make it whatever you want.
>>94378284
Don’t care, it’s relevant to the campaign.
There’s Spirits that primitives worship, the party keeps killing them.
The point is that they are essentially the fantasy version of transhumanists that turned themselves immortal and governed the world but are incompetent and lazy and keep coming up with retarded half measure solutions like „let’s just dump everyone into space when they die“

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>>94366717
Ayo, fellow Shattered Moon bro. Tho the one in my campaign was perfectly fine until about a month ago, coinciding with the locale it shone over going to hell in a handbasket without anyone knowing how and why.

>>94372408
It's pretty central to the campaign in ways I can't mention because a few of my players also lurk here. But one simple bit is that it's effectively a danger detector, changing size/shape/color to the observer based on whatever supernatural phenomena they're close to.

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>>94363253
Last time, one guy raped the sun. The moon is either next or already done.

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>>94363253
There are 2, one smaller and blue, the other large and red, and they swap orbits occasionally. I basically copied the weird orbit that Epimetheus and Janus have around Saturn since it's relatively obscure.
>>94388019
Check out the book Rocheworld for a sci-fi example. The planets sort of exchange ocean/atmosphere, and gravity in between them is weaker b/c the opposite planet's partially cancels the other's.
>>94388019
>without any handwavey magic stuff
The hardest thing might be explaining how land masses/techtonics stay stable for permanent land-only life.
You could set up some king of convoluted moon/asteroid momentum donation system to help with rotations to avoid tidal locks, but at that point you're getting into clarktech/ringworld complexity that's almost magic in scope, so good luck if your goal is to make it hard sci-fi w/out suspension of disbelief. (Sometimes less is more in worldbuilding; it doesn't have to be perfect to be playable).

>>94363311
there was a space program that didn't really get off the ground, but eventually people began to think "why bother?" and realized it was pointless

>>94403001
and yet you're here to post this

>>94403001
Been thinking about making an Excuse Me Commissar thread lately. This might just be the impetus I needed.

Thanks, anon!

>>94363253
My setting IS a weird moon. It's always light, just depends how bright. There's another moon that makes its way around on solstices that make it dark for a full day.

Weird fey/prime plane-world moon thing. Has tunnels/Under dark for miles before hollowing out into a hellscape.

Never bothered naming it because I just made it up.

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>>94377102
>heccin wacky goofy wholesome bros
these have been a thing since before any of us were even born

How did this topic affect your last gaming session?

>>94408815
What system do you run this setting with?

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>>94363685
>>94399433
What counts as a skeleton? Are there squid beaks? Diatoms? Shark teeth? Insect shells? Sea shells? Tunicates?


>>94363253
My great huge glowing purple Jupiter moon sits almost perfectly still in the sky, slowly changing phase in perfect synchronicity with the day and night cycle. Where the moon is in the sky depends on your longitude, and determines how out phase the moon is with the day/night cycle. The moon is so big and so bright that some places experience darkness only during the daily eclipse, or during a particularly powerful storm. Half the planet never even sees the moon. (It turns out we're really the moon and we're tidally locked to a gas giant.)

>>94409756
Squid beaks and those weird things calamars have in them count, beetle shells do too, that’s actually a minor point as beetle shells are p much the only thing that’s got a color that isn’t „dirty white“
They are in high abundance but are something that’s coveted by the dead

This kind of shit is why this board should unironically be deleted

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>>94363253
In the setting we play at, the planet the main races used to live at got consumed by some entity from another plane, outer space, whatever. The gods sealed whatever the fuck that was in the planet and transported all the denizens of the planet to the seventh moon of the planet.
The orcs, who were the original inhabitant of the moon, weren't very happy.

>>94410376
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

>>94410331
but what about the diatoms anon?

I need to know about the diatoms!
7 trillion kg of silicon/year anon! Every 2 days the diatoms of the world create as much mass in skeletons as the current entire living population of humanity.

how do flat earthers feel about playing tabletop games with round planets?

>>94410376
What are some good threads you've recently made? Please link them.

>>94363253
>>94372408
My moon is a city.
No, not like the Death Star. It's a normal, mesopotamian-like city where whenever you go to sleep, the torches will light or extinguish to denote the phase the moon is currently in. Beings in the lit part of town will be corporeal, while beings in the unlit part of town will be incorporeal.

>>94417128
fuck off bumpfag you cunt

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>>94414375
Flat earthers are legit demented but they have a lot of wicked fantasy ideas. Schizo theory unironically makes the best fantasy.

>>94414375
i>>94417156
ironically, they play around round tables

>>94417156
this is just too much mental illness for me

>>94418181
Don't worry, it's not a real belief.

I don't think my setting has a moon.

>>94363253
My setting is a space opera that takes place over a significant fraction of the galaxy. It has literally tens of billions of moons, many of them weird. You’ll have to narrow things down a bit.

>>94426052
Which one's the weirdest, or at least more than just a big space rock?

>>94417156
i don't get it

>>94426133
Well, the moon Riyh, orbiting the kyn homeworld of Kass, is notable for being a captured satellite rather than having formed from Kass. The moon itself is pretty typical (it's a rock just barely large enough to be rounded by its own gravity, about 250 km across), but it's notable for having been captured by Kass fairly recently, within the cultural memory of the kyn species (although granted the kyn cultural memory stretches back several million years due to extremely slow technological development). They just woke up one day and their planet had a moon. Fortunately Riyh was small enough that effects on Kass were relatively mild, but still noticeable (gaining a very small tide sequence, some small tectonic effects). Its orbit was slowly decaying and in a few more millions of years it might have actually impacted Kass, or been torn apart by Kass' gravity, but the kyn have by now achieved space travel and artificial gravity and have managed to stabilize its orbit.

The kyn aren't quite sure where Riyh came from. Their home system, Zuraya, is pretty sparse thanks to a massive gas giant (about twice the size of Jupiter) called Gol at its outer perimeter; it formed insystem and spun outwards during the system's early days, cracking apart early planets and either absorbing the material or hurling it into Zuraya or out into interstellar space. The few other planets that did form are small terrestrial worlds (Kass itself is about 75% the size of Earth; the largest terrestrial world insystem is Zehirr, which is still slightly smaller than Earth).

Riyh's is most likely a rogue planet that was wandering interstellar space for who knows how long before getting captured by Zuraya's gravity and dragged insystem.