New Map Buttons?

[Chimpman]

Hi Thorf,

I've been thinking for a while about any additional map buttons (in the same vein as the Chronological Past and Future buttons) that might be useful. With my start of the HM map, I began thinking about buttons for each planet/plane that we map. It would be a quick graphical way to distinguish which areas are actually on Mystara, and which are not. Here are the buttons I think would be most useful:

Mystara - not sure about the image for this one... funny that the most common button would be the hardest to imagine...
Hollow World - a map grid with the bowl of the HW overlayed on top (like in the HWR series)
Matera/Patera - a map grid with the tip of the moon overlayed on top
The Planes - perhaps a black map grid with the stars of the astral plane on it?
Other Worlds - a catch all for any other worlds. a map grid with several small planets overlayed on it

Admittedly, most of these button categories would deal only with fan made maps, although there are perhaps a handful of official maps that could fall within them. What do you think?

[Thorf]

Nice ideas. I don't think I'd want to use an Outer World/Mystara one, though - better to assume that all maps are there unless otherwise noted, since the vast majority of maps are indeed there. The others that you describe could certainly be made, though. (Actually not using it is not necessarily a reason not to make it anyway, just to make the set look complete! )

The moons button could be more graphical, showing the outline of a planet with two small moons orbiting - similar to how you described the Other Worlds button.

It might be best to restrict the list to: Mystara (usually unused), Hollow World, Moons, Other Worlds, Planes. I don't know how much of those we are actually going to be needing, though.

[Chimpman]

It might be best to restrict the list to: Mystara (usually unused), Hollow World, Moons, Other Worlds, Planes. I don't know how much of those we are actually going to be needing, though.

I like that list (and I agree with your reasoning that since it's a Mystaran Atlas the assumption should be that map is on Mystara, unless otherwise specified). As for how many of those buttons we'll need - at some point (in the near future) I plan on making maps that could use each one. I've already started on the Hollow Moon, and I've got an inclination to continue with M-Venus and M-Mars at least. As for the Planes... well, I have a few sitting around just waiting to be mapped (all of my own creation of course). You can see descriptions of them all at the vaults.

After that I may branch out and start mapping worlds in adjacent crystal spheres (for my own campaign), but those may be of less interest to a wider audience.