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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9489397" data-attributes="member: 58172">[USER=2209]@Voadam[/USER]Yeah, some of the Oerth map in the Living Greyhawk Gazette is difficult to read for what seems like heavy-ink printing reasons.The 2024 DMs Guide map confirms the northern region of Hepmonaland, and renames the &quot;Scarlet Brotherhood&quot; peninsula by the land name Shar.The Solnor/Titanicum Ocean is larger, and Antaria (Australia) and Fireland (Iceland) are in different locations but preserve the same shapes.The &quot;big island thing&quot; near Nippon seems to be part of the solid brown patterning of the deep waters, which has bubbling of a lighter shade of brown, may for a leathery decorative effect, but again with what seems like heavy-ink printing reasons.On the land areas, the mountains come with heavy dark shading which is sometimes difficult to distinguish from the deep waters, which causes confusion in the Gigantea region as well as the Shar region. Hepmona land is difficult to read, it seems some of the jungle/rainforest areas are also getting the dark brown shading as well, which is difficult to distinguish from the deep waters.The discrepancies are no problem if thinking of these as &quot;medieval maps&quot; where proportional distortions and conjecture are typical. Whichever is the &quot;official&quot; map that a setting refers to is therefore &quot;more accurate&quot; than the other versions of the map. I tend to refer to the Dragon Annual map as the &quot;accurate&quot; one. But it is justifiable to refer to Gazette map as the &quot;accurate&quot; one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9489397, member: 58172"] [USER=2209]@Voadam[/USER] Yeah, some of the Oerth map in the Living Greyhawk Gazette is difficult to read for what seems like heavy-ink printing reasons. The 2024 DMs Guide map confirms the northern region of Hepmonaland, and renames the "Scarlet Brotherhood" peninsula by the land name Shar. The Solnor/Titanicum Ocean is larger, and Antaria (Australia) and Fireland (Iceland) are in different locations but preserve the same shapes. The "big island thing" near Nippon seems to be part of the solid brown patterning of the deep waters, which has bubbling of a lighter shade of brown, may for a leathery decorative effect, but again with what seems like heavy-ink printing reasons. On the land areas, the mountains come with heavy dark shading which is sometimes difficult to distinguish from the deep waters, which causes confusion in the Gigantea region as well as the Shar region. Hepmona land is difficult to read, it seems some of the jungle/rainforest areas are also getting the dark brown shading as well, which is difficult to distinguish from the deep waters. The discrepancies are no problem if thinking of these as "medieval maps" where proportional distortions and conjecture are typical. Whichever is the "official" map that a setting refers to is therefore "more accurate" than the other versions of the map. I tend to refer to the Dragon Annual map as the "accurate" one. But it is justifiable to refer to Gazette map as the "accurate" one. [/QUOTE]

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