D&D 5E Forgotten Realms - How would you publish this setting this time?

[TwoSix]

- Many places were located incorrectly.
- Too little detail... and what detail there was was often in the wrong place according to the text or simply wasn't shown.
- The colour palette chosen matched the contents of my son's nappy/diaper when he was roughly 4 months. (Seriously. He went through this horrid black and olive green stage... and I kept noticing how much it looked like the 4E map.)

Add a mustard yellow for deserts, and you've got a baby diaper trifecta!

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Didn't the 3e FR map remove a few countries to get it to fit on a 2-page spread?

-O

The idea was to change the geography just enough to fit all of the Realms on one poster-sized map. The change didn't--to my knowledge--remove any countries, and of course the changes were said by the designers not to mean that any country or place not listed on the map was officially removed.

Sort of a, "Here's how it looks now, but don't think of it as an overwrite of the old map" approach.

 

[CM]

The idea was to change the geography just enough to fit all of the Realms on one poster-sized map. The change didn't--to my knowledge--remove any countries, and of course the changes were said by the designers not to mean that any country or place not listed on the map was officially removed.

Sort of a, "Here's how it looks now, but don't think of it as an overwrite of the old map" approach.

They squished the southern half of Faerûn northeastward. It's almost as if the 1e/2e maps are in Mercator projection and the 3e and 4e maps are in an equal-area projection. That's probably the easiest way to reconcile the changes.

Here's a good reference:
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Cartography