Jason Hibdon’s Broken Lands, 8 miles per hex

In April 2020, Jason Hibdon began posting a wonderful series of maps to the Mystara Reborn group on Facebook. He used Campaign Cartographer 3+ to draft the maps, basing them on the Atlas of Mystara 8 mile per hex series. The result is a stunning conversion of Mystara’s traditional hex art to a modern art style.

This Broken Lands map was the last of Jason’s first wave. He first posted it at the end of April, then took a slight detour through X1 and X11 maps before revisiting his early maps the next month to match his evolving style, de-hexifying the borders, adding a background texture to the hills, and making light forests look less regular. Both versions are presented below, beginning with the latest one, from May 2020.

Fan-made Map by Jason Hibdon (May 2020)

Fan-made Map by Jason Hibdon (April 2020)

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

• Atlas of Mystara
  • Broken Lands, 8 miles per hex

References

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

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was first published in April 2020, and revised in May 2020. The updated Atlas version of this map is Broken Lands, 8 miles per hex. 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 2020. (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; 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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