Poor Wizard’s Almanac Alphatian Region, 72 miles per hex
The Almanac series provided a view of various previously undeveloped areas of Mystara. This map from the first Almanac showed sunken Alphatia after the events of Wrath of the Immortals, released earlier in that year. While it didn’t actually show any new lands, it did add much needed detail to Bellissaria, Esterhold, and a tiny sliver of Minaea in Skothar.
Replica Map (June 2018)
Sources
- Poor Wizard’s Almanac (1992) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Poster map
Chronological Analysis
This is Map 212. It was published in 1992. 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 the upcoming Let’s Map Mystara 1992.
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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5 June 2018 @ 11:29 pm
Hi Thorffin
You make excellent replica’s. of many existing canon sources…yet some seem to glide away underneath your view…which I feel should deserve your treatment (or even improvement). I’ll adress them here for you…so you can check in the hope you can do these as either Replica or Updated map.
–B8 Journey to the Rock inside cover and within; Jelar’s temlin Map in squares instead hexes. yet placed in north Karameikos (see also http://pandius.com/Karameikos_northcentral_2.7m_grid.PNG)
–B10 Night’s Dark Terror. (several maps)
–B11 Kings Festival page 20,
–B12 Queen’s Harvest page 14
–DDA3 Eye of Traldar page 18 & inside cover
–O2 Blade of Vengeance –inside cover
–HWA1 Nightwail Floating Island Ashmorian (map)
–X8 Drums on Fire Mountain inside cover
–X10 Red Arrow Black Shield..Inside cover & map
–X11 Saga of the Shaow Lord (several DM and a player hex map)
–X13 Crown of Ancient Glory (DM & Player maps + page 55+helldan Freeholds map)
–CM2 Death and Glory (PC and DM maps–weird large hex with rectangles inside)
–CM4 Earthshakers map Vyolstragrad page 13
–CM5 Mystery of the Snow Pearl inside cover
–CM6 Where Chaos Reigns ; page 13 Bronze & Iron, Cover world Aelos
–CM7 The Tree of Life; map cover the elven lands, selinar maps
–CM8 The endless Stair; the woods around Lost Lake page 14
–CM9 Legacy of Blood page 5 & cover
–M1 Into_The_Maelstrom Inside cover maps, page3, DM map Star Kingdoms (inside), final battle, Alphaks Volcano, playermap Norwold cover
–M2 Vengeance of Alphaks Cover and inside Norwold map
–M5 Talons of Night Isle of dawn map page 21 & Cover, valley of kings page 23, Isle of Night (dimension of Dread) page 24, Lands of Aranea page 26,
–IM1 Immortal Storm (inside cover)
–IM2 Wrath of Olympus; Planet Simoon page 5, inside cover Darokin
–Dungeon 7 page 9 savage coast section
–Dungeon 21 page 22 Elfswood
–Dungeon 25 page 33 arameikos central
–Other minor area maps in rectangles; B2 Keep on the Borderlands, B6 Rahasia,
I hope this helps in finding more maps to make ;P
5 June 2018 @ 11:55 pm
Hi Robin!
Thanks! There are actually quite a few maps left still to be remade. I’ve been working through them for Let’s Map Mystara, and deciding which to do and which to skip.
Actually, I have a longstanding general policy to decide which maps to do: as a rule, I only make replicas of maps of 1 mile per hex or more, and they must be directly related to Mystara — either the Outer World or the Hollow World. This immediately rules out all dungeon and town maps, which of course don’t have a direct bearing on the topographic maps at the scales I’m working in. It also rules out extra-planar and extra-dimensional stuff — which I may well return to someday, but for now it’s low priority until Mystara proper is done.
There are exceptions, and I’ve now done quite a few 1 and 0.5 mile per hex maps, for example. (But mostly I leave these scales to you!)
So the short answer is: keep watching Let’s Map Mystara for more new maps, appearing in chronological order of publication. 😉
In any case, thanks for the list — I’ll check it against my master list and add any that I’ve missed. This is very helpful. Great work!
6 June 2018 @ 12:02 am
(But mostly I leave these scales to you!)….LOL ;P
It was just in case you missed some.
And I already assumed you skipped most city/dungeon maps
Yet I remembered these often nice hex maps and never seen them reproduced /improved by your excellent hand.
Of course I keep following “Lets Map Mystara”…and keep them adding to “Worlds of Mystara” where I try to compile all Mystara maps of any together.
Great work too!
Nice to have helped.