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<blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 8833758" data-attributes="member: 6670763">I was just reading the location descriptions of the Grey Box again this evening and I noticed the same thing.The Heartlands never got a regional book in the 1st edition FR series like The Savage Frontier, The Bloodstone Lands, or Dreams of the Red Wizards because they had already been covered at that degree of detail in the Grey Box.The Grey Box does at several points divide Faerûn into two halves. The North and the South. The countries in the South all get only a single paragraph each and that is that. No entries for specific cities or ruins in the South at all.I would guess in amount of page coverages, the Sword Coast gets 20%, the East gets 15%, the entire South half 5% and the Heartlands get the remaining 60%.Having done plenty of continent maps myself, I can see the reason behind that. You have the ocean in the West, the frozen arctic in the North, and vast open steppes in the East. If you want to make the Forgotten Realms feel like part of a greater world, you do need to have some &quot;foreign lands beyond the horizon&quot; that appear on the map and can be referenced for flavor.That seems like a very good explanation why we never seem to have gotten any material set in Chondath, Turmish, or the Border Kingdoms. Chult stands out as the exception because jungles are just cool, I guess. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yora, post: 8833758, member: 6670763"] I was just reading the location descriptions of the Grey Box again this evening and I noticed the same thing. The Heartlands never got a regional book in the 1st edition FR series like The Savage Frontier, The Bloodstone Lands, or Dreams of the Red Wizards because they had already been covered at that degree of detail in the Grey Box. The Grey Box does at several points divide Faerûn into two halves. The North and the South. The countries in the South all get only a single paragraph each and that is that. No entries for specific cities or ruins in the South at all. I would guess in amount of page coverages, the Sword Coast gets 20%, the East gets 15%, the entire South half 5% and the Heartlands get the remaining 60%. Having done plenty of continent maps myself, I can see the reason behind that. You have the ocean in the West, the frozen arctic in the North, and vast open steppes in the East. If you want to make the Forgotten Realms feel like part of a greater world, you do need to have some "foreign lands beyond the horizon" that appear on the map and can be referenced for flavor. That seems like a very good explanation why we never seem to have gotten any material set in Chondath, Turmish, or the Border Kingdoms. Chult stands out as the exception because jungles are just cool, I guess. ;) [/QUOTE]

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