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Mystara 1987

Mystara 1987

The debut of the Gazetteer series.

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The Maps

These maps have been made internally consistent, adopting the most detailed shapes and positions of each element.

  • Art — the printed style from 1987’s GAZ1 Legend, with additional symbols from the 1981-1987 maps.
  • Fonts — Feinen made its debut this year, dominating the Gazetteer maps. Helvetica continued to be the go-to typeface for adventure modules. Century Schoolbook also made its Mystara debut, as the standard font for Dungeon Magazine maps. And there was a last cameo appearance from Libra BT.
No other font is more iconic to Mystara than Feinen.
No other font is more iconic to Mystara than Feinen.
Helvetica appeared sporadically throughout Mystara’s publication.
Helvetica appeared sporadically throughout Mystara’s publication.
Century Schoolbook was the font of Dungeon Magazine, and as such appeared in all Mystara’s maps from that source, as well as some from Dragon Magazine.
Century Schoolbook was the font of Dungeon Magazine, and as such appeared in all Mystara’s maps from that source, as well as some from Dragon Magazine.
Libra BT only appeared on two maps in Mystara’s history.
Libra BT only appeared on two maps in Mystara’s history.

References

For more details on the individual maps and their interpretation here, please refer to the original Let’s Map Mystara project articles listed below.

  • Let’s Map Mystara 1987 (upcoming)
  • Let’s Read the Known World/Mystara post 600 — 1987 discussion starts at this post

1987 Product Lineup

This table lists all the relevant products published in 1987, with links to each map’s individual page here at the Atlas. Product titles link to PDFs at DTRPG where they are available.

Mystara Geographic Maps 1987

1987 Map Gallery

This gallery shows all of the geographic maps published over the course of the year. These are replicas of the original maps. For full details, please check out the post for each map, linked to in the table above. For corrected and expanded versions, use the maps near the top of this page.

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