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<blockquote data-quote="Zeromaru X" data-source="post: 9259327" data-attributes="member: 65487">Just the other day I read a guy in Reddit saying that this map seems to have different assumptions than those for the 5e maps published before. He said that for the 5e map of the time, the designers said they were going to follow the 2e maps in stuff like distances and landforms. For instance, for 3.xe the designers shrank Faerun in size by 15-20%, eliminating most of the &quot;dead space&quot; (regions that were just non-adventurable plains, mountains, etc.), something that they undid in the 5e maps in the SCAG. However, he notices that this map is closer to the 3.xe rendition of Faerûn than previous 5e maps.The example he gives is the positioning of Chult: if Chult is some distance SW of Calimshan, it's a 1e/2e map (a configuration previous 5e maps had followed). If Chult is due west of Calimshan it's a 3.xe/4e map. He also notices other details were previous 5e maps were closer to 2e are now more closer to 3.xe.On the other hand, I've also noticed the particular design choices they decided for the Old Empires region, that seems to be a compromise between the 3.xe map and the 4e map.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zeromaru X, post: 9259327, member: 65487"] Just the other day I read a guy in Reddit saying that this map seems to have different assumptions than those for the 5e maps published before. He said that for the 5e map of the time, the designers said they were going to follow the 2e maps in stuff like distances and landforms. For instance, for 3.xe the designers shrank Faerun in size by 15-20%, eliminating most of the "dead space" (regions that were just non-adventurable plains, mountains, etc.), something that they undid in the 5e maps in the SCAG. However, he notices that this map is closer to the 3.xe rendition of Faerûn than previous 5e maps. The example he gives is the positioning of Chult: if Chult is some distance SW of Calimshan, it's a 1e/2e map (a configuration previous 5e maps had followed). If Chult is due west of Calimshan it's a 3.xe/4e map. He also notices other details were previous 5e maps were closer to 2e are now more closer to 3.xe. On the other hand, I've also noticed the particular design choices they decided for the Old Empires region, that seems to be a compromise between the 3.xe map and the 4e map. [/QUOTE]

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