[UPDATED] Check Out These PRINCES OF THE APOCALYPSE Maps!

While you wait for Princes of the Apocalypse, the hardcover D&D adventure due out April 7th (March 27th in preferred stores), take a peek at these maps from the adventure, courtesy of cartographer extraordinaire Mike Schley! 7 maps in total, previewing The Dessarin valley, Red Larch and its surroundings, the Sighing Valley, Feathergale Spire, Rivergard Keep, and the Necromancer's Cave. And gorgeous they are, too! You can buy prints directly from the cartographer himself, which is a very cool thing that WotC does.

[UPDATE - unfortunately, Mike tells me that WotC has asked him to take the maps down for now, but they'll be back].

Click on one of the below maps for more!

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[Grimstaff]

Nice. I'm looking forward to this one, looks like it will have the more sandboxy approach of LMoP.

 

[Blackwarder]

But why are the hexes 10 miles instead of 6?

 

[S_Dalsgaard]

But why are the hexes 10 miles instead of 6?

Does it matter? It is probably to fit the needed area on one page. The LMoP map for example had 5-mile hexes.

 

[Prism]

The first section of the adventure is available on the adventurers league site if you are organising an encounters game. It contains these maps with the area details

 

[wedgeski]

Sweet! I bought all of Mike's player maps for Lost Mine of Phandelver and it helped my game immensely. Looks like I'm going to have to creak the old wallet open again.

 

[Fildrigar]

Spoilers.

 

[doctorhook]

Lord, this makes me wish we'd got this thing last fall. Right now my party (who had a blast in LMoP) is sluggin' their way through Castle Naerytar in HotDQ. It's just such a clumsy adventure. Princes of Apocalypse already looks like a much stronger successor to LMoP: same author, same cartographer, same region of Faerun. With some luck, it'll turn out to actually be this awesome once we get our mitts on the actual adventure!

 

[Prism]

Spoilers.

It looks very good so far. Immediate choices about adventures you want to do much like LMoP. Lovely maps. Interesting encounter locations. I can see a problem with multi table encounters evenings though. Due to the fact a group can visit encounter locations in any order, somebody who swaps tables between weeks might end up doing the same encounter twice

 

[trystero]

I'm glad that WotC hired Mike Schley, whose maps are evocative and beautiful while still being uncluttered and clear, for this adventure. I was unimpressed with the maps that Jared Blando did for the two Tyranny of Dragons adventures: they had too much decoration and not enough colour or clarity for my tastes.