Legend (1981)
The original Expert Rulebook provided a wonderful early glimpse at the hex art icons that would later become so iconic to Mystara’s maps. Strangely, the symbol for village was absent, and since none of these large scale symbols appeared on any maps during 1981, at this point it remained unknown.
This legend collects together these symbols as well as all the others that appeared in maps in 1981. New symbols were added almost every year after this, but it’s interesting to see what has been there since the very beginning.
Chronological Map (August 2021)
This map is part of the Mystara 1981 series of chronological maps. It is an updated map, incorporating all available sources and made internally consistent with other maps in its series. But it only uses sources published in or before 1981.
For more information, see Appendix C: Cartographic Chronology.
Sources
- Expert Rulebook (1981) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- X1 The Isle of Dread (1981) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- B3 Palace of the Silver Princess (1981) (PDF at Vaults of Pandius)
- X2 Castle Amber (Château d’Ambreville) (1981) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Revisions
For detailed notes, see the posts for each individual source map at the links above.
References
- Let’s Map Mystara 1981-1982 — the original project thread for this map legend
- Let’s Map Mystara Together discussion thread at The Piazza (link leads to this map’s post)
Join in the Discussion at The Piazza
Come and join in the discussion about this map at The Piazza, where I am holding a “read through” of the Let’s Map Mystara project.
