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

[Parmandur]

After what happened with the VTT, I guess I'm skeptical about the level of interactivity this will actually have.

Beyond and Sigil were seperate teams with different products: I have heard nothing but good things about Maps, the light VTT from the Neyond team making this Atlas.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Beyond and Sigil were seperate teams with different products: I have heard nothing but good things about Maps, the light VTT from the Neyond team making this Atlas.

Heck I'll be thrilled over the moon if you can move your cursor over say a city name and a pop up or tool tip shows you info on the city for example.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

We got into that on the forum last year, the scale of the changes were pretty egregious, before the changes the Sword Coast region alone is about the size of Europe, but in 3E everything is cramped and on top of each other.

For just the Sword Coast region, leaving off the rest of Faerun:

In the 3E/4E material the Sword Coast region as defined in SCAG is ~2.2 million square miles (or ~5.7 million square kilometers approximately twice as large as India)

In the 1E/2E/5E material, the Sword Coast region is over 5 million square miles (or nearly 13 milliom square kilometers, just shy of Antarctica, the only country on Earth bigger than the Sword Coast region is Russia).

That means the land that disappears and comes back is about the size of Australia. Just for the Sword Coast.

The article is here:

Damn that big. I guess that would make Chessenta much larger then modern day Greece for example.

 

[darjr]

Product page says
"Also receive the Atlas of Faerûn: a digital map of the entire Faerûn continent, for the D&D Beyond compendium and Maps VTT."

What does maps allow with a map currently? Barring any updates to the maps product before then? It's not an "animated" map, they would have said, I think. So zoom in/out and scrolling? Would the stickers feature benefit this kind of map?

 

[Parmandur]

Product page says
"Also receive the Atlas of Faerûn: a digital map of the entire Faerûn continent, for the D&D Beyond compendium and Maps VTT."

What does maps allow with a map currently? Barring any updates to the maps product before then? It's not an "animated" map, they would have said, I think. So zoom in/out and scrolling? Would the stickers feature benefit this kind of map?

I don't think Maps has done "Atlas" type stuff before, so this sounds like new functionality.

 

[Piperken]

Simply appreciative of the many cited landmarks and points of interest; ppl had noted past maps were lacking.

The style is similar to older Forgotten Realms maps; it also made me think immediately of the cloth maps you'd get inside the box with the computer games, and was nice enough to pin to your wall!

 

[Demetrios1453]

We got into that on the forum last year, the scale of the changes were pretty egregious, before the changes the Sword Coast region alone is about the size of Europe, but in 3E everything is cramped and on top of each other.

For just the Sword Coast region, leaving off the rest of Faerun:

In the 3E/4E material the Sword Coast region as defined in SCAG is ~2.2 million square miles (or ~5.7 million square kilometers approximately twice as large as India)

In the 1E/2E/5E material, the Sword Coast region is over 5 million square miles (or nearly 13 milliom square kilometers, just shy of Antarctica, the only country on Earth bigger than the Sword Coast region is Russia).

That means the land that disappears and comes back is about the size of Australia. Just for the Sword Coast.

The article is here:

Thank you for finding that article. I spent almost an hour googling trying to find it last night lol.

 

[darjr]

It's such a wild thing to do IMHO.

Is the current size for 5e more like Ed's original?

 

[Parmandur]

It's such a wild thing to do IMHO.

Is the current size for 5e more like Ed's original?

Yes, as of the start of 5E they reverted the geography to match the original version, and these maps seem to continuenthat trend.

 

[Demetrios1453]

It's such a wild thing to do IMHO.

Is the current size for 5e more like Ed's original?

It caused a huge stir in FR fandom when they did it. The 3e FRCS is a very good book, but the poster map was one of the few missteps.

These new maps adhere very closely to the original Ed's/1e/2e scale and base geography.