Mark’s Known World and Sea of Dread, 24 miles per hex v1
After a break of more than a decade, Mark returned to his Mystara mapping projects in late 2018. He began by investigating a new software option: Worldographer. Previously known as Hexographer, this program by Inkwell Ideas is focused on hex mapping, allowing maps to be created at different levels of zoom — and it’s easy to see why Mystaran cartographers could be excited at this prospect. However, things didn’t go all that smoothly for Mark, and he finally decided to instead go with a fully featured graphic program: Paint.NET.
Although he posted various drafts from his Worldographer experiments on his blog, these were all subsumed into his finished set of three maps, at 72, 24 and 8 miles per hex. He posted these at his blog in January 2019.
This is the 24 mile per hex base map from Mark’s Worldographer set. Content-wise, aside from the lack of labels, it’s similar to his previous versions from 2005, although he noted when posting the maps that the “parent” maps derive their terrain from the middle hex of the associated “child” map. There may be some differences in terrain between his old MS Paint maps and these Worldographer maps.
Fan-made Map by Mark Howard (January 2019)
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
- X1 The Isle of Dread (1981) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Wrath of the Immortals (1992) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- And others…
Fan Sources
- None
References
- All of Mark’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- Mark’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
- Mark’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
- Known World and Sea of Dread at Mark’s web site (January 2019)
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in January 2019. The updated Atlas version of this map is not yet available. 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 2019.
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. 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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