D&D 5E (2024) Atlas of Faerun (with some pictures from the internet)

[Lakesidefantasy]

Do you think this will be a poster map included in the physical book purchase or will it only be available in a usable form on D&D Beyond?

 

[Voadam]

That may be the case now, but it certainly was more of a PoL setting before 2e and 3e filled in all the blanks. 4e's Spellplague and one hundred year time jump was intended to take it back to a more PoL vibe. Of course, with 5e they "undid" a lot of the 4e changes while continuing to advance the timeline, so now the setting has more of a Renaissance/Enlightenment vibe, which makes it harder to give it a PoL vibe.

I would say 1e FR filled in a lot of blanks.

There were 1e sourcebooks on Waterdeep and the North, the Moonshaes, Empires of the Sands, The Savage Frontier, Dreams of the Red Wizards, and the really big Kara Tur boxed set.

 

[pukunui]

Do you think this will be a poster map included in the physical book purchase or will it only be available in a usable form on D&D Beyond?

According to the digital bundle preorder page on DDB, you will receive: "The Atlas of Faerûn: a digital map of the entire Faerûn continent for the D&D Beyond compendium and Maps VTT"

And this is what it says on the standalone Adventures in Faerûn preorder page: "Also receive the Atlas of Faerûn: a digital map of the entire Faerûn continent for the D&D Beyond compendium and the Maps VTT."

The standalone preorder page for Heroes of Faerûn says something similar.

That makes it sound like it will be digital only. I see no mention of a physical map in either book.

I would say 1e FR filled in a lot of blanks.

There were 1e sourcebooks on Waterdeep and the North, the Moonshaes, Empires of the Sands, The Savage Frontier, Dreams of the Red Wizards, and the really big Kara Tur boxed set.

OK. I started with 2e in the 90s, and I've never really been too clear on what all was introduced in 1e vs what was new with 2e. I've got the original 1e FR grey box, but I bought that used more recently and haven't read all the way through it ever. I also have the 2e gold box and the Elminter's Ecologies box, but I haven't read those since they were bought new in the 90s. Someone also gave me the FR Adventures book, which I think was meant to update the grey box to 2e?

But anyway ... I guess FR hasn't really been a proper PoL setting since there was just the OG grey box. I suppose it could do with a reset, but that doesn't seem likely to be happening here, especially not after WotC's last attempt at a more drastic, PoL-oriented reset was so poorly received.

 

[Parmandur]

I would say 1e FR filled in a lot of blanks.

There were 1e sourcebooks on Waterdeep and the North, the Moonshaes, Empires of the Sands, The Savage Frontier, Dreams of the Red Wizards, and the really big Kara Tur boxed set.

Those were small books that covered big areas.

 

[Parmandur]

That makes it sound like it will be digital only. I see no mention of a physical map in either book.

The Atlas is gmdigital only, but they did confirm a poster map will be in the books.

 

[pukunui]

The Atlas is gmdigital only, but they did confirm a poster map will be in the books.

OK cool. It's not mentioned on the product pages. I presume they talked about it at GenCon or something?

 

[Parmandur]

OK cool. It's not mentioned on the product pages. I presume they talked about it at GenCon or something?

I want to say the Game Informer article, but it was mentioned formally at some point.

 

[Parmandur]

OK cool. It's not mentioned on the product pages. I presume they talked about it at GenCon or something?

And here we are:

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From the Game Informer article. It sounds like it'll be in the DM book!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

According to the digital bundle preorder page on DDB, you will receive: "The Atlas of Faerûn: a digital map of the entire Faerûn continent for the D&D Beyond compendium and Maps VTT"

And this is what it says on the standalone Adventures in Faerûn preorder page: "Also receive the Atlas of Faerûn: a digital map of the entire Faerûn continent for the D&D Beyond compendium and the Maps VTT."

The standalone preorder page for Heroes of Faerûn says something similar.

That makes it sound like it will be digital only. I see no mention of a physical map in either book.


OK. I started with 2e in the 90s, and I've never really been too clear on what all was introduced in 1e vs what was new with 2e. I've got the original 1e FR grey box, but I bought that used more recently and haven't read all the way through it ever. I also have the 2e gold box and the Elminter's Ecologies box, but I haven't read those since they were bought new in the 90s. Someone also gave me the FR Adventures book, which I think was meant to update the grey box to 2e?

But anyway ... I guessFR hasn't really been a proper PoL setting since there was just the OG grey box. I suppose it could do with a reset, but that doesn't seem likely to be happening here, especially not after WotC's last attempt at a more drastic, PoL-oriented reset was so poorly received.

That seems very weird not to have a poster map in the product, but I assume it's so in creating the map they don't have any limitations imposed upon it that printing it as a foldable map would place on it. It's supposed to huge, maybe they couldn't fit it in with cutting stuff so they decided to just make it a digital Map, and release a full sized separate physical version later.

I have a blanket with a map of Waterdeep on it that I bought at Spirit Halloween, and maybe in the future they will do somethings like that.

 

[pukunui]

That seems very weird not to have a poster map in the product, but I assume it's so in creating the map they don't have any limitations imposed upon it that printing it as a foldable map would place on it. It's supposed to huge, maybe they couldn't fit it in with cutting stuff so they decided to just make it a digital Map, and release a full sized separate physical version later.

I have a blanket with a map of Waterdeep on it that I bought at Spirit Halloween, and maybe in the future they will do somethings like that.

Look at the post that's literally above yours. There is going to be a poster map in at least one of the books.