https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/ 2026-05-22T19:55:18+00:00 https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/ https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/_media/logo.png text/html 2025-02-27T20:43:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:cartographers?rev=1740689014&do=diff The Cartographers' Guild "One day, a civilisation will look at us, and write myths. I want those myths to be about purpose and community and yes, adventure, but also wisdom. We are not giants, we are not here to take and destroy simply to adorn ourselves. We are cartographers. Here to explore, to uplift each other, to grow from cycle to cycle in hope. text/html 2024-10-13T19:14:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:corico?rev=1728846891&do=diff Corico "The gardens, which we now call oases, would move each night under the cover of darkness, hiding from the wrath of the dragons. Even now that the dragons are gone -- dead, trapped, or up in the stars -- the oases constantly change. But the custodians of those gardens still care for us. Wherever an oasis can be found, so can life, and plentiful food and water. That's the best gift one can find. text/html 2024-10-20T19:44:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:guilds?rev=1729453442&do=diff Other Factions, Guilds and Groups "When the Gracious Depths realised this, she wept and cried, the strength of her grief raising storms crashing against the stone, trying to break it open. It failed. Meanwhile, our ocean under the Eternal Sky grew colder and colder, yearning for the warmth of their sibling, the Gracious Depths. This is why the storms of the Grieving Sea have battered the ocean ever since, trying to break open her prison, crying out for both her siblings and her lover. text/html 2024-10-13T19:14:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:kallimar?rev=1728846899&do=diff Kallimar "Picture a sprawling, golden citadel. Spires reaching towards the sky, every building a work of art. Gilded and enamelled with the finest materials: gold, silver, ivory and marble. A city of artists, of scholars, of poets. " -- An extract from the Rissi myth text/html 2024-10-13T19:14:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:known_galaxy?rev=1728846873&do=diff The Known Galaxy "We shall travel to that Land some day, Over the mountain, far away. We shall graze upon new pastures, In the Land that we'll call Home." -- A verse from a Xhuva folk song, The Land With No Cages. Overview Civilisations Before the advent of faster-than-light (FTL) travel, the known galaxy was a very small place (spanning 50 light-years across, measured by the furthest distances that spaceships have travelled), with just text/html 2024-10-13T19:15:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:myths?rev=1728846942&do=diff Myths and Legends " Welcome to the fourth edition of Myths and Legends. In this text, you will find a patchwork (to use a Balra metaphor) of stories that reflect key cultural phenomena from various homeworlds. From religion to revolution, and from moral fables to dystopian warnings, these stories speak not only to the history of our peoples, but also to our present-day psyches text/html 2024-10-14T15:33:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:other_stations?rev=1728919987&do=diff Other Stations and Colonies " ...it is Marella who watches over the lost. This time of year, she writes her grief across the sky. She grieves for the Sailor battered from their course by the storms, and she grieves all the more for them who are dashed on the rocks. text/html 2024-10-13T19:15:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:technology?rev=1728846926&do=diff Technology " And with their ingenuity, they learnt, and they built, and they grew. Discovered fire, and built forges with it. Created language, from which they wove books, poetry, and plays. With this newfound gift, they evolved, each generation becoming more learned than the one before. text/html 2024-10-13T19:15:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:thousand_colours_moon?rev=1728846906&do=diff The Thousand Colours Moon " The gods are watching from the sky, Fret not, feel thou no dread. Follow our gentle prayer, And protected, go to bed." -- A verse from The Sailors' Lullaby. ---------- An ammonia-dominated moon which is home to the Sailors of the Eight Moons, or simply, the Sailors text/html 2024-10-13T19:15:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/setting:unknown_galaxy?rev=1728846933&do=diff The Unknown Galaxy A Cartographers’ Guild would be pretty boring with nothing to map. Here’s how they find that: The Probing " “The unforgiving void of space is no match for the beauty in its gaps. If only we could find them.” " --- Unknown. The process of mapping a new star system begins by finding it in the vast expanse of space. Even before the advent of