Champions of Mystara Great Waste, 24 miles per hex
Champions of Mystara‘s Great Waste poster map finally presented an official linked up view of the area, incorporating and expanding upon X4’s Great Waste map, X5’s Hule map, and Dragon 169’s Sind map. The position of Sind is a hex out from where X4 suggested it would be, but miraculously this did not throw other sections of the map out of sync. This map added many new details to X4’s rather bare map.
Replica Map (October 2020)
Sources
- Champions of Mystara (1993) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Poster map
Chronological Analysis
This is Map 234. It was published in October 1993. The updated version of this map has not yet been released. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see Let’s Map Mystara 1993.
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; and 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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28 January 2016 @ 3:08 pm
There are some red lines at the top of the map where it looks like rivers should be.
River Desoki (or something like that) in the Adri Varmi Plateau, and another one to the west, coming out of the river leading into Lake Hast.
Is that replicated from the actual map?
They look like errors, right (not a border, or something)…?
28 January 2016 @ 5:38 pm
Those are seasonal rivers. It would help if I had a legend, wouldn’t it.
X4 Great Waste, 24 miles per hex – Atlas of Mystara
30 April 2018 @ 5:06 pm
[…] This map was later revised and expanded in Dragon 169, then again in Champions of Mystara. […]
Let’s Map Mystara 1983 – Thorfinn Tait Cartography
1 June 2018 @ 11:46 am
[…] This map was later revised and expanded in Dragon 169, then again in Champions of Mystara. […]
27 May 2019 @ 1:51 am
hey Thorf, I know that this is a replica map – but I just noticed that it misspells Kladanovic as Kladanovit. The name for the town in the booklet is spelt correctly, so it’s not that they were trying to change the name.
27 May 2019 @ 10:56 pm
Hi Shawn!
Good catch — but yes, this is a mistake with the original map. The Neck towns of Kladanovic and Tyjaret appeared on both the Great Waste and the Serpent Peninsula maps in Champion of Mystara, but the Great Waste map had Kladanovit while the Serpent Peninsula map had Kladanovic.