My Lining Up Mystara Revisited project is proceeding apace. I’m still working on the next post, but in the meantime I want to show you some of my progress, and ask for some feedback.
Work is continuing on continental hex maps for Davania, Skothar, and Brun, as well as the Hollow World. So I think that it’s about time we revisited the climate map and finished it off.
So here it is: the first (almost) complete version, in all its chaotic glory.
It’s time to solve the problems I brought up in my second article, and then move forward with Solution 1 from last time.
After some discussion in the Mystara Cartographic Society on Facebook, I decided to keep my 2016 model’s hex map-based coastlines. The match with the Jurassic Earth map is really not tight enough to warrant changes. (Click here for the Facebook post if it is not appearing embedded below.)
At the same time, the consensus was that the 2.2º rotation of Brun to match CM1’s map with the Master Set outlines is a step too far, making life difficult for cartographers for minimal gain in accuracy.
To sum up:
Here’s the final overlay that I’ve come up with:
I outlined three problems at the end of the first article:
Our challenge is to try to reconcile the various models into a single 2018 model that solves or at least minimises the effects of these problems while preserving the existing maps (and the text they’re based on) as much as possible.
As with the last Lining Up project, I’m going to do this by exploring the possibilities and soliciting feedback from the Mystara community.
The Jurassic-based world shows the true shapes of the continents.
Fit our assembled coastlines to Jurassic Mystara, shifting land masses as necessary within the confines of the hex grid. As detailed in the last article, some displacement is necessary to fit Brun in its more southerly position while still fitting in the Isle of Dawn, Ochalea and the Pearl Islands, but hopefully it’s doable.
Pros: