D&D General Piecing together the official maps of the Mortal World of Nerath

[Haplo781]

Fantastic work in any case bud. Well done you. I wonder if, in 20 years time, this might become the next sort of "Greyhawk" - a setting that is mostly developed by fans.

Honestly Nerath would fit right in as an unexplored corner of Oerth.

 

[Yaarel]

Honestly Nerath would fit right in as an unexplored corner of Oerth.

The entire planet of Oerth is fully mapped.

Nerath seems too big, spanning from the arctic to the equator, at least. It would be tricky to tuck in somewhere in earth.

 

[Hussar]

The entire planet of Oerth is fully mapped.

Nerath seems too big, spanning from the arctic to the equator, at least. It would be tricky to tuck in somewhere in earth.

Kinda sorta. Most of the Oerth map is apocryphal and not official.

 

[Yaarel]

Kinda sorta. Most of the Oerth map is apocryphal and not official.

The Dragon Magazine Annual 1996 map of Oerth, by Skip Williams and other designers, is quasi-official.

Its locations are also identified with travels in Gygax novels, and the successful French comic book series, Black Moon Chronicles.

It is part of the D&D tradition about Oerth.

 

[Yaarel]

Kinda sorta. Most of the Oerth map is apocryphal and not official.

On second thought, "apocryphal" is a good choice of words.

Heh, apocryphal is "official" but not the same thing as "core".

 

[Haplo781]

The entire planet of Oerth is fully mapped.

Nerath seems too big, spanning from the arctic to the equator, at least. It would be tricky to tuck in somewhere in earth.

Fully mapped, but that map isn't in accordance to some canonical information as I understand it.

The map from Conquest, based on the scale of the Nentir Vale, is about 1600x1200 miles, or roughly the size of the Mediterranean area on earth. I know that doesn't really square with icecaps in the north and tropical rainforest in the south but maybe there's some wacky magical climate effects.

 

[Yaarel]

The map from Conquest, based on the scale of the Nentir Vale, is about 1600x1200 miles, or roughly the size of the Mediterranean area on earth. I know that doesn't really square with icecaps in the north and tropical rainforest in the south but maybe there's some wacky magical climate effects.

Or the planet of Nentir Vale is unusually small.

 

[Haplo781]

Or the planet of Nentir Vale is unusually small.

Most fantasy world's are.

 

[Hussar]

It's almost as if people who make fantasy worlds aren't all that interested in geography as a science before they start mucking about with maps and stuff. It's in the north, so, there's snow. It's at the bottom of the map so there's tropical jungles. Doesn't matter that your map covers an area the size of the UK,

 

[Zeromaru X]

Or the planet of Nentir Vale is unusually small.

The authors intended that the planet was Earth-like, for the same purpose they gave it only one moon or 4 seasons: for easy-to-use for new DMs to homebrew. That was the original intention, at least. They revealed that in one of the preview books.

So, following the authors' intentions, the map of Conquest is just a very small part of the World, that doesn't even contains all the places they described in different books.

The map of Conquest isn't even that reliable source, anyway. The map was created with a different intention of that of the Nentir Vale's setting, adding places from Mystara and Greyhawk, and creating some contradictions (such as the location of the Vault of the Drow). As with everything Nentir Vale, we don't have to take everything as written on the stone.