Given the odd Hex size (40) for the HW map, I wondered if it was intended to generate a 1:1 hex ratio with some scale of the surface. I’m interested in the lack of join up between the known link points (Aegos and Atruaghin) and their Hollow world counterparts. I see this was posted 8 months ago but I’ve only just found it. (It wasn’t.) The Hollow World Set world map took that idea and ran with it, creating a world map with the land stretching from far west to far east, but in doing so it actually stretched the land completely out of proportion. Since Mystara is based on Jurassic Earth, and as I found in my examinations back in 2018 the map is inherently tied to the Mollweide projection used on those maps, the massive Far End Ocean is inevitable.īy the way, the Master Set world map avoided this by simply cropping out the empty oceans, and not showing the edge of the oval-shaped world map at all, leaving readers to assume the rectangular border was the map edge. (The Pacific Ocean is a different ocean in the sense that the sea floor of the Pacific is almost entirely new, having been subsumed back into the crust and replaced by new ocean floor. When the continents were all merged into Pangaea, it was larger still, but by this stage it had already begun to shrink as the continents moved apart once again. 150 million years ago, when the continents were roughly as they appear in Mystara’s maps, the Pacific Ocean was far larger, and it was known as the Panthalassic Ocean. The short answer is yes.Īs to why, the answer lies in the Jurassic Earth map that Mystara is based on.
This is a question that comes up repeatedly.
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