27 February 2025

Agathokles’ Northeastern Karameikos, 3.4 miles per hex

Giampaolo’s close-up Karameikos map is much more than just a reprisal of B10. In fact, he brings together locations and terrain from a wealth of sources, both official and fan-made. So you can see B10’s Sukiskyn, Xitaqa, and Gnomish Mine, alongside B11’s Stallanford, the Basic Set’s Castle Mistamere, Karameikos: Kingdom of Adventure’s Eltan’s Spring, and Hail the Heroes’ Zadreth. But you can also find Gorenenov from Jennifer Guerra’s Traladara Mini-Gazetteer, Rick LaRue’s Goldleaf from Mystara netMAG 5, and lots of things from Simone Neri’s Threshold, 2.7 miles per hex map. And that’s just a selection of the sources — there are lots more. You can find more of these in Giampaolo’s article at the Vaults.

For me, this map represents the maturation of our community. In it, Giampaolo expertly combines all the available source materials he could find, resulting in a map that is full to the brim with adventure possibilities old and new, official and fan-made. And it still has lots of room for new adventures, too. This is an early example of the direction one section of the community would take.

But I would be amiss if I neglected to mention the scale. As mentioned in the posts for some of his other maps, Giampaolo often uses rather unique scales for his maps. I calculated this one to be 3.4 miles per hex, and Giampaolo confirmed this to be correct.

Fan-made Map by Giampaolo Agosta (October 2007)

*Northeastern Karameikos, 3.4 miles per hex by Giampaolo Agosta, October 2007*

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

B3 Palace of the Silver Princess (1981) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Basic Rules Set (1983) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
B10 Night’s Dark Terror (1986) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Eastern Karameikos, 3 miles per hex
GAZ1 The Grand Duchy of Karameikos (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Karameikos, 8 miles per hex
B11 King’s Festival (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Northern Karameikos, 3 miles per hex
Karameikos: Kingdom of Adventure (1994) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Hail the Heroes (1994) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
And others…

Fan Sources

Mystara netMAG 5 (25 May 1997) (Vaults of Pandius)
- The Elven village of Goldleaf by Rick LaRue
Traladara Mini-Gazetteer by Jennifer Guerra (November 2000) (Vaults of Pandius)
Detail of the Threshold Region by Simone Neri (March 2007) (Vaults of Pandius)
Map of North-eastern Karameikos by Giampaolo Agosta (October 2007) (Vaults of Pandius)
And others…

References

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

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in October 2007. 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 2007. (Please note that it may be some time before the project reaches this point.)

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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