Saturday, July 11, 2020

Greyhawk Map EasyZoom

Howdy Greyhawk gamers! Today I'm promoting a custom map created by Michael "RetroGamer_Meph" Saxton. He has been around the community a lot lately and is now starting to share his work on the internet. I'll let him introduce himself and his map:

"Hey guys, figured i'll introduce myself a little bit. I am pretty new to Greyhawk but some have probably seen me a lot around the Greyhawk Online discord and a little bit on Canonfire, my handle is RetroGamer_Meph everywhere else.

So diving into Greyhawk full steam I have been trying to learn about it. I dove into Anna's maps and I absolutely love them but after 40 years of Greyhawk being added to it, I was totally lost on where to begin. I had no idea what locations existed at what timeline so I decided to go back to the 80s Darlene maps and just start at 576. Well I couldn't find any great high res images of it online and I haven't bought the bullet yet to buy the box set so I decided to do a reimagining of her map for my campaign.

I have shared it on the other Greyhawk sites I have been around so you may have seen it, but if not then enjoy. This is the easyzoom version and sometime this weekend I hope to release the full PNG in case anyone wants to use it online or print it. The full image is over 12k pixels wide so it will print just about as big as you want. I have a list of about 8 or 9 locations I missed or misspelled but I will get those corrected. Anyways, here is version 1.0"

Check out Michael's Greyhawk map. It's a great homage to Darlene and I look forward to more projects by him in the future!

11 comments:

Mike Saxton said...

Thank you so much Mike. I really had a lot of fun with this project and there will definitely be more to come!

Anonymous said...

I noticed a number of misspellings which mar an otherwise nice looking map:

Dutchy should be Duchy
Solnar should be Solnor
Clastpur should be Clatspur
Grendeep should be Grendep

Mike Bridges said...

Mike: I can't wait to see!

Anonymous: I'm sure Mike can fix these misspellings. Thanks for the feedback!

Mike Saxton said...

Thanks, those have already been fixed with about 6 others and here is Version 1.1. Since then I have found more so I will be doing another update.

https://easyzoom.com/image/208539

Puff said...

As a Greyhawk DM from days of yore, this map makes me smile and long for those days when I would have my party trekking from one end of the map to the other. I so wish I had those poster maps still. But this map makes me happy-Happy-HAPPY!

Saxinis said...

Fabulous resource. I love it, not cluttered and it looks nice and the zoom feature is great. Any chance Mike is doing any other Greyhawk maps. I'm just starting a campaign in the Wild Coast/Pomarj region (I'm using mostly the 83 boxed set as I have a copy) and would love some regional maps for my players. I've been trying to make maps on Inkarnate but even with the Pro subscription, my map making skills are weak.

Saxinis

T0M said...

Fantastic Map
love Greyhawk and all the maps and heraldry
thanks for this great resource.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful map! Just a note, that "Old Red" should actually be "Oldred."

EEL_GM said...

That is awesome

Kyuss said...

Anyone know where I could download the full Hi-Res Image?

Mike Saxton said...

Kyuss, obviously a little late with the reply but I turned on downloading for the full version a while back. Here is the latest version with more errors corrected. The download link is below the map. Enjoy.

https://www.easyzoom.com/image/394133