D&D 5E (2014) Adventuring on the moon?

[Weiley31]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Ben already told Han that ain't no moon.

 

[Casimir Liber]

The other thing I thought of was that the sky of the moon was dark and it was somehow a close link to the Astral Plane (sort of nexus), which explains the presence of githyanki (and maybe githzerai), and phase spiders.

 

[Casimir Liber]

So (begin stream-of-consciousness thinking) in pondering on this....have decided that the veins of green cheese on the moon are fed upon by an ecosystem of insects (mainly beetles - a bunch of 'em in Tome of Horrors fortuitously), and sluggy/microbial things. Anyway....any embellishment on cool invertebrates welcome

 

[Stormonu]

Heh, there's always Well's "First Men in the Moon", and the moon is visited in Baron Manchausin (revealing an enormous city and giants who can detach their heads from their bodies).

And one of the tall tales in Dark Sun had someone fly to the moon, Guthay (I think) on a spoon...

 

[el-remmen]

In my old homebrew, the moon's craters were caused by a colony of purple worms that lived there.

 

[Rabulias]

There is also the very odd 1st edition AD&D module, Needle (I11 Needle (1e) - Wizards of the Coast | AD&D 1st Ed. | Adventures | AD&D 1st Ed. | Dungeon Masters Guild), that transported characters to the moon.

 

[Maxperson]

Right, so more of Lovecraft's dreamlands ideas - his critters populated the moon and so one could go there. It was populated by Moon Beasts (converted in Sandy Peterson's CoC/D&D great crossover material and probably elsewhere). They associate with Leng Spiders and folk of Leng....

I guess the geology could include large deposits of highly nutritious and valuable mineral-eating fungal/nonvascular plant material known colloquially as Green Cheese......

Anyone ever developed a setting for DnD on the moon?

Spelljammer had most of the moons given detail and some inhabitants. Look up Realmspace, Greyspace and Krynnspace.

 

[GuyBoy]

I think one of the early 3e adventures featured a monster called a Mooncalf?
It had fallen to earth to cause its mayhem, but might have siblings on the actual moon.

 

[Casimir Liber]

So H.G. Well's "First Men in the Moon" has selenites as an antlike sentient race, and mooncalves, their herd animals. See here for the chapter that describes the mooncalves and here for an image.

 

[Casimir Liber]

Spelljammer had most of the moons given detail and some inhabitants. Look up Realmspace, Greyspace and Krynnspace.

I should have remembered that....