Poor Wizard’s Almanac III Diagram
The third of the Poor Wizard’s Almanac world diagrams was almost the same as the second. It incorporated a minor visual change, with textures added to the polar openings to help differentiate the three labelled regions there; previously these had been marked as shaded regions. The only meaningful part of this change was the separation of the Darklands and the Stormy Regions, with the former now missing the texture applied to show the latter. However, given the nature of these regions, it seems highly unlikely that the Darklands were intended not to be part of the Stormy Regions.
In short, all three Poor Wizard’s Almanac diagrams were very similar, and there really wasn’t enough difference between them to make any single one a clear superior over the others. As I noted in the post for the first Almanac’s diagram, the visuals were more attractive than the original Hollow World Set version. But functionally all four maps were pretty much the same.
Replica Map (September 2025)
Sources
- Poor Wizard’s Almanac III (1994) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Page 3 map, Cartography by Diesel
References
- New Map: Poor Wizard’s Almanac III Diagram post at Patreon
Chronological Analysis
This is Map 263. It was published in December 1994. The updated version of this map is World Diagram. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see Let’s Map Mystara 1994.
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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Hex Art & Fonts
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Textual Additions (Poor Wizard’s Almanac III, December 1994)
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