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Originally posted by Markustay

HandsomeRob's maps are probably the best for what you are looking for. I don't think he hosts them anywhere anymore, but someone broke-down the big map into smaller chunks (the original file is so huge most folks couldn't open it... including me). There was a follow-up thread to his original, wherein Cleric Generic posted the sections in his dropbox, but I just checked and they're no longer there ('File Not Found'). Like an idiot, I never bothered to download them myself (and now I need some self-reflection to figure out why that is...)

However, I'm sure plenty of other folks here downloaded them, and someone may even have the HUGE original file as well.

My own maps have always been regional, so not what you are looking for. The last time I was working on an 'all of Toril' map project my house burned down (the gods were angry! LOL). I am currently working on a new one, starting with just Faerūn, but thats been on hold for about 3 months because I've become distracted, and when I get back to it (very soon) it will still be like a year before I finish Faerūn proper, and even think about moving onto those other regions of Toril. Those will be released in pieces, though, and the first two are 80% complete already (Just Cormyr to Impiltur, from the Moonsea down to the north coast of the old Empires), so not even near where you want them to be (except for the start of the Cormyr portion of that series... and where Azoun found Alusair).

Mine will never be 'one whole big map for everything' as HandsomeRob did, because of the level of detail I want to achieve. What you are talking about would require mapping Toril several times over, at different scales, similar to how RW mapping software works now. If I ever got a hosting service (and finished MY maps), te best I would attempt is a continent map you could click on to see the smaller, regional ones (like how the FRIA worked, but more efficient).

Speaking of which, if you could find that source - the Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas, that would probably do precisely what you want, come to think of it. Its extremely dated, and you can't 'scroll', so going from one map section to another is a chore, but its still probably the best 'all inclusive' map/software we've ever had (and is now missing TONS of stuff, being 3 editions out-of-date). Hell, we've gained a whole 'nother planet since then.

The Fonstad Atlas is another excellent resource, and there are copies of a pieced-together one of just Faerūn floating around all over the web. that book contains the whole of Faerūn + Kara-Tur though, fully mapped, and if you could find a copy at a decent price go for it. It doesn't include Maztica, which didn't exist yet (in print), and for whatever reason they chose not to include Zakhara (you see a piece of it, but I'm not sure if Al-Qadim had been published by then).

And since the fire, I don't even have most of my own maps. I lost the entirety of the K-T one I was almost done with. It would have synced-up perfectly with the canon 3e campaign map (which means it would no longer 'work' either, since the maps drastically changed in 3e, and have since changed back).

And as for maps of that particular campaign and novel series, there is a source specific to that - FR12, 9324, Horde Campaign, which was a weird attempt at a 'miniatures rules' guide book to doing The Horde campaigns, and it includes troop types and numbers for every country involved. Not a source I reference very often, since its practically useless for RPGing or even the typical 'fanboi discussions' we have gong on around here. Its very stale and lifeless, like a textbook, but it would accomplish some of what you want.

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Originally posted by sleyvas




I've got Handsome Rob's TIF map (776 MB) and I also converted it to JPG (165 MB). He even filled in some of the unnamed places (like Katashaka's lands). I really wish I could have used it DMs Guild, but since it wasn't available there other people couldn't use it. But it did force me to play with some mapping tools, so that's been kind of fun. I just have nowhere I can put them up (don't have a dropbox, and if I put them up on google docs then technically they kind of own them... and I wouldn't want to do that to Rob... too big for email to send as an attachment).

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Originally posted by sleyvas




I've got Handsome Rob's TIF map (776 MB) and I also converted it to JPG (165 MB). He even filled in some of the unnamed places (like Katashaka's lands). I really wish I could have used it DMs Guild, but since it wasn't available there other people couldn't use it. But it did force me to play with some mapping tools, so that's been kind of fun. I just have nowhere I can put them up (don't have a dropbox, and if I put them up on google docs then technically they kind of own them... and I wouldn't want to do that to Rob... too big for email to send as an attachment).

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Sleyvas, would you be willing to upload the .jpg to Zippyshare.com and post the link here? It's free.

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Originally posted by sonofsaline

Thanks for all the info, Markustay. I guess I'll have to keep dreaming. Maybe I'll give Google a call and see what they can do... :)

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Originally posted by Divinity

Over the past few years, I've been making my own Faerūn map from scratch. I've posted the WIP a couple times, but not since Dec '18 or so and I've not really done too much since then. I'm paused in the process of naming of roads and rivers. What I've learned is that making a perfect map is impossible. Too many people have made creative liberties on official products for there to be a perfect map - let alone then having to figure out which city map is best used. Plus, some things simply have never been detailed. Just figuring out which side of the river a town is supposed to be on can be almost impossible. The best I've been able to do is compare all the maps I can find, and then compare that to official text, then unofficial text and talking to authors (like we can through here) and in some cases make a judgment call that seems like it makes the most sense. It can literally take an hour or more just to figure out one location sometimes and the map has been a project of hundreds and hundreds of hours. A world/continent map that included city structures and buildings would be a legendary feat if made from scratch. I can't imagine the computer RAM and patience it would take to build a map like that. Mine already has each phase made in its own file.

Here's a link to a full-scale version of my map on my Google Drive. Take into account it's still a WIP, though most of the important stuff is down, minus a legend.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iYtooKNJaSQB1PU_Sq2Is3aOhCf5YdSL

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Originally posted by Divinity

Over the past few years, I've been making my own Faerūn map from scratch. I've posted the WIP a couple times, but not since Dec '18 or so and I've not really done too much since then. I'm paused in the process of naming of roads and rivers. What I've learned is that making a perfect map is impossible. Too many people have made creative liberties on official products for there to be a perfect map - let alone then having to figure out which city map is best used. Plus, some things simply have never been detailed. Just figuring out which side of the river a town is supposed to be on can be almost impossible. The best I've been able to do is compare all the maps I can find, and then compare that to official text, then unofficial text and talking to authors (like we can through here) and in some cases make a judgment call that seems like it makes the most sense. It can literally take an hour or more just to figure out one location sometimes and the map has been a project of hundreds and hundreds of hours. A world/continent map that included city structures and buildings would be a legendary feat if made from scratch. I can't imagine the computer RAM and patience it would take to build a map like that. Mine already has each phase made in its own file.

Here's a link to a full-scale version of my map on my Google Drive. Take into account it's still a WIP, though most of the important stuff is down, minus a legend.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Y-0Uarlbrcw9jLnKAh3fQ_JE8FYIKy_/view?usp=sharing

Edit: I updated this map with a few changes including adding a legend.

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Originally posted by Divinity

Over the past few years, I've been making my own Faerūn map from scratch. I've posted the WIP a couple times, but not since Dec '18 or so and I've not really done too much since then. I'm paused in the process of naming of roads and rivers. What I've learned is that making a perfect map is impossible. Too many people have made creative liberties on official products for there to be a perfect map - let alone then having to figure out which city map is best used. Plus, some things simply have never been detailed. Just figuring out which side of the river a town is supposed to be on can be almost impossible. The best I've been able to do is compare all the maps I can find, and then compare that to official text, then unofficial text and talking to authors (like we can through here) and in some cases make a judgment call that seems like it makes the most sense. It can literally take an hour or more just to figure out one location sometimes and the map has been a project of hundreds and hundreds of hours. A world/continent map that included city structures and buildings would be a legendary feat if made from scratch. I can't imagine the computer RAM and patience it would take to build a map like that. Mine already has each phase made in its own file.

Here's a link to a full-scale version of my map on my Google Drive. Take into account it's still a WIP, though most of the important stuff is down, minus a legend.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Y-0Uarlbrcw9jLnKAh3fQ_JE8FYIKy_/view?usp=sharing

Edit: I updated this map with a few changes including adding a legend.

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While by no means a master map maker, and I'm getting that you are probably just using an image editor, but let me first say "bravo" and secondly say …. I feel the pain especially in what you say in the above about the equipment being an issue. I've been using campaign cartographer, and what sucks is I get a map that's starting to be at the point that I want... and then suddenly it starts locking up, etc... What's worse is that I don't think its necessarily my system itself so much as the software being too old to take advantage of my exorbitant memory (had a system with 24 gigs of RAM). There's probably tweaks I can do, but the simple frustration is what makes you want to give up.

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Originally posted by Divinity

[quote]Originally posted by sleyvas

[quote]Originally posted by Divinity

Over the past few years, I've been making my own Faerūn map from scratch. I've posted the WIP a couple times, but not since Dec '18 or so and I've not really done too much since then. I'm paused in the process of naming of roads and rivers. What I've learned is that making a perfect map is impossible. Too many people have made creative liberties on official products for there to be a perfect map - let alone then having to figure out which city map is best used. Plus, some things simply have never been detailed. Just figuring out which side of the river a town is supposed to be on can be almost impossible. The best I've been able to do is compare all the maps I can find, and then compare that to official text, then unofficial text and talking to authors (like we can through here) and in some cases make a judgment call that seems like it makes the most sense. It can literally take an hour or more just to figure out one location sometimes and the map has been a project of hundreds and hundreds of hours. A world/continent map that included city structures and buildings would be a legendary feat if made from scratch. I can't imagine the computer RAM and patience it would take to build a map like that. Mine already has each phase made in its own file.

Here's a link to a full-scale version of my map on my Google Drive. Take into account it's still a WIP, though most of the important stuff is down, minus a legend.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Y-0Uarlbrcw9jLnKAh3fQ_JE8FYIKy_/view?usp=sharing

Edit: I updated this map with a few changes including adding a legend.

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