Wednesday, August 22, 2018

The next five maps are avaliable! Fantastic Wilderlands Beyonde is released


I am pleased to announce the release of the Fantastic Wilderlands Beyonde. This is one of four products covering the eighteen maps that encompasses the Judges Guild Wilderlands setting. This product covers five of the maps as detailed below. The four sets combined will cover a region equal in size to Western Europe providing years and decades of adventuring for you and your group.

Unlike many setting products, the Wilderlands sketches out the overview and history in light detail. Then presents a comprehensive list of local detail in a compact format that is customizable. This eliminates much of the tedious work involved in creating a setting and allows the referee to focus on the campaign and the grand adventures the players face as their characters.

This is presented at two products both in PDF and Print on Demand.


This product is a 38 page Guidebook for the five maps of the Fantastic Wilderlands Beyonde. The books has an introduction and commentary by Robert S. Conley who has used the Wilderlands as his main fantasy campaign for nearly forty years. Each map is detailed with the following listings: Villages, Castles and Citadels, Idyllic Isles, Ruins and Relics, and Lurid Lairs.

Included with the Guidebook are letter sized blank map of the Wilderlands that can be used to take notes during a campaign. A PDF with the map legend. A letter size black and white guide to the placement of each of the 18 maps within the Wilderlands. This guidebook covers the City State of the World Emperor Map Six, Desert Lands Map Seven, Sea of Five Maps Map Eight, Elphand Lands Map Nine, and Lenap Map Ten.


Finally a giant sized preliminary version of the master map that I used to crop the individual maps from. With the right printer this can be printed as a full scale map 5 feet wide and 8 feet long. With the PDF you can selectively copy out regions as complete maps that overlap the borders of the 18 maps. After the release of the final set of maps this file will be updated as a layered PDF allowing for custom maps of the Wilderlands to be copied or created.




The second product is a set of five maps:  City State of the World Emperor Map Six, Desert Lands Map Seven, Sea of Five Maps Map Eight, Elphand Lands Map Nine, and Lenap Map Ten.. When ordered via print on the demand they are printed in two overlapping halves each on a 12" by 18" poster. In addition each map is presented as a 22" by 17" PDF file.

The maps have been redrawn from the original in a color style. Instead of the distinct symbols of the original maps, terrain has been drawn as a  transparent fill and vegetation represented by colored areas. This allows both terrain and vegetation to overlap. Representing more accurately the complexity and diversity of the Wilderland's geography.

This release will be followed by the Wilderlands of the Magic Realm in a few weeks covering the next four maps of the Wilderlands.

A preview PDF

The Fantastic Wilderlands Beyonde Guidebook

The Fantastic Wilderlands Beyonde Color Map


10 comments:

Invincible Overlord said...

Hell yeah!!!

Bruce Gray said...

Hi!

It is =very= nice to see that these are finally available! I went out and got the PDF's right away! Now, if I only had an extra $20.....

Chris107 said...

Brilliant! Perfect for my CSWE game 😊

Unknown said...

Super!

Unknown said...

This is awesome! I am looking forward to the completed product.

Darren said...

Question: the old JG products had blank Players maps, with only coastlines and other minimal features. Are these something which will be available on some later date?

Unknown said...

Hi
Any updates on the 3rd and 4th books?

ShandyAndy said...

Just wondering if the release of the next set of maps & booklet, Wilderlands of the Magic Realm, was still going ahead?

Robert Conley said...

Should be later this month or early February.

ShandyAndy said...

Just received my copies of the maps 6-10 delivered over to the UK and they are awesome. Great job Rob. Maps 1 - 5 are now top of my wishlist. Hopefully get them early next month. Great job on the guidebook too. Only got the PDF atm but will be getting the PoD versions of those too.