The Forgotten Realms Atlas
{{Infobox book
| name = The Forgotten Realms Atlas
| image = TSR8442 The Forgotten Realms Atlas.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption =
| author = Karen Wynn Fonstad
| genre = Role-playing game
| publisher = TSR
| release_date = 1990
| media_type =
| pages = 192
| isbn = 0-88038-857-9
}}
The Forgotten Realms Atlas is a book produced by Karen Wynn Fonstad and provides detailed maps of the Forgotten Realms, a fictional setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
The atlas also includes timelines of various novels set in the world. The book is 210 pages, and was published in August 1990.{{cite book |last=Wolf |first=Mark J. P. |title=Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |pages=278-279 |isbn=0415631203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k60W4FvGG5UC&pg=PA278}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/obituaries/karen-wynn-fonstad-overlooked.html |title=Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien's Middle-earth |work=The New York Times |first=Brian |last=Kevin |date= January 13, 2025}}
Contents
The Forgotten Realms Atlas is an indexed book which contains three-color maps of the Forgotten Realms.{{cite book |last1=Carbonell |first1=Curtis D. |title=Dread Trident: Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Modern Fantastic |date=30 November 2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-1-78962-468-7 |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6trBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 |language=en |access-date=18 August 2024 |archive-date=18 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240818183645/https://books.google.com/books?id=6trBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 |url-status=live }} This includes large, small scale regional maps (one inch to two hundred miles), as well as detailed location maps and diagrams of areas including the Moonshae Isles, the Northwest lands near Waterdeep, and the Western Heartlands areas around Cormyr and the Dalelands. These large scale maps cover the areas detailed in Forgotten Realms game modules and novels that had been published before the Atlas.
The Forgotten Realms Atlas has many maps covering the Forgotten Realms, including regions in Pool of Radiance. It is out of print and is prized by collectors.{{Cite news |last=Kevin |first=Brian |date=2025-01-13 |title=Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/obituaries/karen-wynn-fonstad-overlooked.html |access-date=2025-01-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
Publication history
The Forgotten Realms Atlas was designed by Karen Wynn Fonstad and published in 1990 as a 192-page book.{{cite book|last=Schick |first=Lawrence|title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games|publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991|isbn=0-87975-653-5 |page=100}}
Reception
Lawrence Schick, in his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, calls the book a "very pretty, exhaustive sourcebook".
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