Mike Schley's MASSIVE Forgotten Realms Map From SCAG!

Cartographer Mike Schley has posted the enormous map of Northwest Faerûn from the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. It's poster sized (10,200 x 6,600 pixels, or a 34-page PDF) or you can get the Artists Print version shipped to you in the form of a poster map. "This new absolutely massive map of D&D's Sword Coast and Northwestern Faerûn was commissioned by Wizards of the Coast to accompany their 5th Edition D&D game supplement Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. lead your adventures through his exhaustive map of The Forgotten Realms' most Iconic lands and make sure to let it inspire some truly fantastic storytelling."
The print version ($10-$54, depending on size) is here, and the digital version ($10) is here.

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[DEFCON 1]

I don't think it has more detail, but it definitely covers a wider area. It extends west over all the islands except Evermeet, and it extends east as far as the Dalelands.

You could be right. The only reason why I thought the downloadable one had more details was based on Mike's comments about needing to edit the NW part of the maps because icons were out of place and then emails everyone who bought it to download it again. Which made me think those were special additions and features to the online map because otherwise you'd think they would have already been set down correctly for the version that got printed. (Unless of course those additional icons were for cities and sites that landed outside the area that was printed in the book itself, which could explain why they weren't already placed prior to printing.)

 

[pukunui]

(Unless of course those additional icons were for cities and sites that landed outside the area that was printed in the book itself, which could explain why they weren't already placed prior to printing.)

Bingo. The cities that were missing their black dot icons were all off to the right - places like Iriaebor, Elversult, Arabel, Saerloon, Hillsfar, etc.

Mike hasn't said anything about it, but I noticed that the original map also left Suzail off the map and had Marsember in its place. That's been corrected (with Marsember moved a little to the east and Suzail marked where it should be) in the new map as well.

 

[Greybird]

Trying to read through all this. Wow. This keeps coming up: Discussing trends in an industry is part of being involved in a hobby. Criticizing trends that one finds troubling or harmful is not just reasonable, it is important and necessary. It creates discussion that, if it is valid, spreads and can even (yes, really) bring about change.

This forum has a tendency to dismiss any such criticism with "then shut up and don't buy it." It is never beneficial to shut down controversial opinions that way. If you do, then the comments section is irrelevant - it could just be replaced with a 'like' icon.

 

[pukunui]

Mike Schley just posted this on Twitter. Gives you a good sense of scale:

EDIT: It was originally posted here. As a map nut, I appreciate that the guy made the effort to line up Waterdeep with the Portland, OR area, since that's been used as a latitude reference for FR in the past.

 

[Radaceus]

I always knew I had an affinity to Neverwinter (Seattle)!

 

[Demetrios1453]

I've been out of the loop, so I just want to clarify..

There is no map included with the SCAG print book?

You have to buy the map separately as a expensive print version or a PDF?

The majority of the map is in the book. The northern and southern edges of both maps are roughly the same (from the Spine of the World to the Forest of Tethir), but the map in the book cuts off the eastern and western edges - it goes from just west of Mintarn (you can just see the edge of the Moonshaes) to the Cormyr - Sembia border. The Moonshaes section of the map is reproduced separately in the book, in the section on the Moonshaes themselves, not surprisingly...

 

[fjw70]

Mike Schley just posted this on Twitter. Gives you a good sense of scale:

EDIT: It was originally posted here. As a map nut, I appreciate that the guy made the effort to line up Waterdeep with the Portland, OR area, since that's been used as a latitude reference for FR in the past.

That is pretty cool.

 

[fjw70]

So I have the forgotten realms map from my gray box set from the 80s. Is this useful for the current realms? Or is there a lot of stuff that older map is missing?

Never really played the realms so I do not know.

 

[fjw70]

Download to your real computer?

That's disappointing. An electronic map isn't much good to me if I can't use it properly on my iPad.

 

[Parmandur]

Mike Schley just posted this on Twitter. Gives you a good sense of scale:

EDIT: It was originally posted here. As a map nut, I appreciate that the guy made the effort to line up Waterdeep with the Portland, OR area, since that's been used as a latitude reference for FR in the past.

Wow, that's some great context; Faerun is huge!