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Found some short fan made files over on Canonfire that may be of interest to Greyhawk fans.

Each part of the Atlas provides a detailed local map of a Greyhawk region and some annotation from modules, TSR material, and fan made material for the locations on the maps.

Here is the pdf of the fifth one, the Wooly Bay. There are supposed to be 13 total, but there are only 6 available right now, although they seem to have been recently posted. Here is a link to the other ones.

(Note: the pdf took awhile to load, but saving directly to the computer seemed faster)

Handy if a DM is running Greyhawk and wants to provide a bit of a sandbox feel

Happy New Year!

Definitely look nice enough, and having all the locations of the various adventures is also nice and handy. In general, for pure beauty, I prefer Anna's maps:

http://ghmaps.net/areamaps.html

She has been a long time fan too, so her maps are well researched as well. So between these two resources, and Darlene's originals, should be all any GM needs. Even though I find myself using this site pretty regular as well for the City of Greyhawk:

http://melkot.com/locations/cogh/cogh.html

and this one, when I want clean and simple:

http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/gami ... ermap.html

Cools.

Greyhawk is not for me, but I can always use maps.

Treebore wrote:and this one, when I want clean and simple:

http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/gami ... ermap.html

Ah, how I love that these maps are still in active use on the web. When I first made them it was for my personal use, and later approached TSR (in the T$R days) through the TSR Online forum on AOL, and gained permission to post them on the web, I would never have thought they would have such a lifetime. They had given permission as long as the maps were credited to TSR, which was quite a shock to many in the community.

I remember drawing them in on Windows 3.1, I don't recall which paint program it was, but it was a bit of a challenge. Saved as GIF's and each file made to be one of the map folds, and the files were a huge 35-40k in size. Well that was very large back in the days of having just a few MB of memory... I "cheated" in that to make sure everything lined up between the maps by copying the last row or column of pixels to the next file, and started drawing from there. In many places you may find the files electronically linked into one file, and will note that some of the place names then appear multiple times. This was because I labeled them on each map, a few people that combined them removed one set, others didn't. I also remember, quite a few years after they were available, someone pointing out one misspelling, though I do not recall where that was at this point in time.

Going back to dig up the original files, I stumbled across a number of other cool items. The chat room transcript of my online campaign that I ran on AOL, before, during, and after my tenure as one of the TSR Online moderators (not TSR employee). This campaign started late in 1994 and ran four years until December 1998. All the notes and modules for the campaign, character sheets, and a wealth of other information. The old netbooks and Greyall which was a fan compilation of the Greyhawk related forums on AOL. Another find was the Players Guide to the World of Greyhawk, though unfinished there was a lot of good work put into this material by "The Council of Greyhawk", of which I was a contributor as well. Though, perhaps one of my favorite finds was the material that Frank Mentzer had published in the community libraries for his Aquaria campaign.

Ah, a trip down memory lane, and quite a bit of material for me to now update...