GAZ14 Atruaghin Clans, 8 miles per hex
The last of the Gazetteer line, GAZ14 was also the last supplement to provide a new look at an area of Mystara’s Outer World at the familiar 8 miles per hex scale. Unfortunately there was a major error in the size of the plateau, which had five or six columns of hexes deleted from its mid-section. And since the plateau is the defining feature of the whole area, this is a real shame.
Replica Map (December 2020)
Sources
- GAZ14 The Atruaghin Clans (1991) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Poster map (Cartography by Dennis Kauth)
Map Types
The Atlas of Mystara includes a few fundamentally different types of maps. The colour of the castle wall border on each map shows which category it belongs to.
- Replica maps (white castle border) are exact replicas of primary source maps. They present the world of Mystara as the original source materials depict it, warts and all. No attempt has been made to fix errors of any kind — even typos. As far as possible, replica maps use the same art as the original maps, though in many cases they are colourised. These maps are the main source material of the Atlas of Mystara, forming the base of all of the updated maps.
- Updated maps (green castle border) present the Atlas of Mystara’s consistent view of the world, with all errors, alignment issues, and so on fixed. They use standardised hex art and fonts. Anything not marked as a replica map is an updated map.
- Chronological maps (yellow castle border) provide snapshots of Mystara at the end of a certain year in its publication history. In effect, they are updated maps created from a limited list of sources. The years in question appear in the title of each map.
- Fan-made maps are unofficial maps created by other fan cartographers. As such, they do not follow the Atlas’s castle border colour scheme. The Atlas presents these maps in their original form, with the permission of the cartographers. The Atlas considers these maps secondary sources, and updated maps of areas not covered by official maps make extensive use of them. In a few cases, the Atlas also presents Replica fan-made maps (red castle border).
John Caliber
29 December 2020 @ 9:22 pm
Hello. I was wondering if an attempt has been made to issue an unofficial map of the plateau with all the omitted columns re-asserted? I imagine the curiosity to do so is very strong. Thank you.
Thorfinn Tait
29 December 2020 @ 9:25 pm
Yes indeed! And I wasn’t even the first to do so. Andrew Theisen and Thibault Sarlat both did their own versions.
You can see mine here: Atruaghin, 8 miles per hex.