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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9574395" data-attributes="member: 907">As I recall, the map changes were mainly about changing the Sword Coast to be more of a straight north-south line as opposed to going more eastward the further south you got. The reasoning was basically that they didn't want to &quot;waste&quot; 1/4 of the map on open sea. There were some more changes to actual communities on the map, because someone thought the 2e population numbers didn't make sense and wanted them to be more in line with actual medieval/renaissance cities, with Waterdeep going from IIRC over a million to around 200,000 people (and about a billion chickens for sale). I think there were some other changes where they reduced the size of &quot;nothing areas&quot; like the Shaar, for mostly the same reason.But again, this wasn't presented as something like &quot;Grumbar has won a major victory against Istishia and as a result a lot of land has been reclaimed from the sea&quot;, but more like &quot;Oh, this? Turns out the new cartographer measures things in a different way which is supposed to be more accurate.&quot; But then of course it got changed back in 5e (not sure about 4e).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 9574395, member: 907"] As I recall, the map changes were mainly about changing the Sword Coast to be more of a straight north-south line as opposed to going more eastward the further south you got. The reasoning was basically that they didn't want to "waste" 1/4 of the map on open sea. There were some more changes to actual communities [B]on[/B] the map, because someone thought the 2e population numbers didn't make sense and wanted them to be more in line with actual medieval/renaissance cities, with Waterdeep going from IIRC over a million to around 200,000 people (and about a billion chickens for sale). I think there were some other changes where they reduced the size of "nothing areas" like the Shaar, for mostly the same reason. But again, this wasn't presented as something like "Grumbar has won a major victory against Istishia and as a result a lot of land has been reclaimed from the sea", but more like "Oh, this? Turns out the new cartographer measures things in a different way which is supposed to be more accurate." But then of course it got changed back in 5e (not sure about 4e). [/QUOTE]

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