D&D Forgotten Realms map?

Cheezeninja · #1 April 25th, 2004, 10:08 PM

Ok.. well i have to start tinkering around with a map sometime, so i'm going to try and find a good Forgotten Realms map and work on that. While i doubt i'll ever get a finished product out of it, if i do so much the better, and if i pique somebody elses interest and they do it thats even more fantastic.

I was thinking about dominions and forgotten realms and i realized what a perfect conVersion some of the races are for Forgotten Realms factions...
Soul Gate Ermor - The Shades of Netheril
The Illithids - ... The Illithids
Maztica - Mictlan/ C'tis
The Dales - Man
Sword Coast/ Waterdeep - Arceseophyle
Red mages/ Calimshan - Abysia/ Marignon
Forzen North/Icewind Dale - Jotunheim
Silver Marches - Vanheim
Tuigan Horde - Barbarian King Tien Chi
Cormyr - i'd say ulm but they make good dwarves..
what else?

Cheezeninja · #2 April 25th, 2004, 10:34 PM

wow... WoTC really keeps a tight lid on their products... i cant find a copy of the new map Online.

Wauthan · #3 April 25th, 2004, 10:47 PM

Hmmm... While I can not find a copy of the new map there's bound to be something usable in the 2nd edition books. However the one I found was of such poor quality that it could not be turned into a working Dominions 2 map. Hopefully you will have better luck than me. Finding an image that's large enough can be a bother though.

You haven't by any chance contacted WotC and asked them nicely? While they are understandably hard on scans, and other material from their products, appearing for free they seem to have a policy of supplying images from their products at a regular basis. Since Faeruns map is already well known they might even have a highresolution image around that you can use. At the very least you'll know what their opinion is on the subject.

Wauthan · #4 April 25th, 2004, 10:51 PM

Hang on. Might have spoken too soon. Found something you might find useful.

http://apocalypse.thegames.it/faerunMap.htm

With a little cutting and pasting this could be stitched and painted into a good Dominions 2 map.

Wauthan · #5 April 25th, 2004, 11:00 PM

If you like the Dragonlance setting I also found this.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20031121a

Cheezeninja · #6 April 25th, 2004, 11:02 PM

I cant seem to access that webpage... (the first one) i had found a 2nd edition map that was detailed and broken into about 12 parts, but i was holding out for the absolutly beutiful 3rd edition map

[ April 25, 2004, 22:14: Message edited by: Cheezeninja ]

Wauthan · #7 April 25th, 2004, 11:24 PM

That's odd. Link works without problem for me.

Try moving up the "tree" to http://apocalypse.thegames.it then select "Mappa dei FR" on the righthand side. Looks like the 3rd edition map, broken into pieces, but then again I'm not really that updated on PnP RPGs these days.

I like the dragonlance map better though. All borders already drawn.

Cheezeninja · #8 April 26th, 2004, 01:02 AM

It might have something to do with me being on a military network right now (me being in the military and at work). Being the impulse buyer that i am and always willing to have an extra digital doodad on my computer i ended up purchasing the fractal mapper from nbos ( http://www.nbos.com/products/mapper/mapper.htm )because it seems like an awesome map creation utility, im lazy, and an rpg'er can never have enough maps. *cough* giving myself a little more credit than i deserve for following through im going to attempt to recreate a forgotten realms map at the proper scale, thus avoiding the over detail present in most of the maps i've seen and avoiding any unneccessary copywright issues. plus the mapper just looks really cool.

[ April 26, 2004, 00:06: Message edited by: Cheezeninja ]

Edi · #9 April 26th, 2004, 09:37 AM

I might actually try and make an FR map using those 3rd Edition scans, as I love Forgotten Realms, always have, especialy the pre-Godswar one. There's the makings of a more than one scenario out of it if one is so inclined, and being unemployed right now, I've got spare time. If somebody else wants to do a Version as well, go for it. This might take a long time.

Edi

Edi · #10 April 26th, 2004, 09:41 AM

Of course, if they actually had the complete map of the continent with Kara-Tur also in there, it'd be much better. Anybody have an idea where I could get a Kara-Tur map consistent with the 3rd Edition FR map?

I was never all that keen on Maztica, but it could go as well, but that would be a huge project.

Edi