18 October 2025

LoZompatore’s Platea, 72 miles per hex

Following on from his Platea Area overview map, Michele provided this small scale hex map of the Platea area. As noted in the article for the overview map, the idea was to present an otherwise empty area in Davania for community development as a Known World equivalent in the southern hemisphere.

Due to the scale, the map is necessarily vague, as can easily be seen from the included Known World comparison map. However, it’s enough to make clear the reasons for Michele’s choice of this area. He explained in his post at The Piazza:

Platea shows a pretty varied terrain in a limited area. In fact, from west to east we have: mountains, forests, plains (with a couple of big rivers flowing in them), arid terrains and then deserts.

Fan-made Map by Michele Carpita (October 2010)

*Platea, 72 miles per hex by Michele Carpita, October 2010*

This is an original map created by one of Mystara’s excellent fan cartographers. For more information on the cartographer, including a gallery of all their maps, see also Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara.

Sources

Hollow World Campaign Set (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Outer World Planetary Map

Fan Sources

Platea: a challenge to the community discussion thread at The Piazza (October 2010)
Introduction to Platea by Michele Carpita at the Vaults of Pandius (October 2010)

References

All of Michele’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
Michele’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
Michele’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in October 2010. The updated Atlas version of this map is not yet available. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see the upcoming Let’s Map Mystara 2010.

The following lists are from the Let’s Map Mystara project. Additions are new features, introduced in this map. Revisions are changes to previously-introduced features. Hex Art & Fonts track design elements. Finally, Textual Additions are potential features found in the related text. In most cases, the Atlas adopts these textual additions into updated and chronological maps.

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