This map was never reproduced at a large scale (nor was it made for such) and is more or less useless for our purposes.įinally we have the 5 th Edition poster map produced for Waterdeep: Dragon Heist: I am fairly certain that the next map of Waterdeep was found in the 4 th Edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. You may notice that the shape of the building reverted to the original FR1 map, with a few slight differences. It shows a rectangular building, although give the style and scale of the map I wouldn’t read too much into that.Ī new map of Waterdeep was created for 3 rd Edition’s City of Splendors sourcebook, and featured the Yawning Portal as building C48:
Forgotten realms map manual#
A version of this map in red scale was also reproduced in the manual for the first Eye of the Beholder video game: In 1990, the Forgotten Realms Atlas by Karen Wynn Forstad. FRE3 Waterdeep makes the map even smaller and colors the whole city gray. The map in Volo’s Guide to Waterdeep, similarly, is simply a re-scaled version of the same map. The next map of Waterdeep is found in TM4 City of Waterdeep Trail Map (1989), which is simply recolored version of the FR1 map. The orientation of the map has also been rotated. The Yawning Portal is still Building #4 and it still appears in the same general location (on Rainrun Street between Cook Street and Beinimbra’s Street), but the shape of the building has changed to a simple rectangle:
The next exterior map is from the City System boxed set. I’ve enhanced the shape of Building #4 (Yawning Portal) here to make it clear, since the only available scan was done with a potato. But to fully understand these interior maps, we first need to take a look at the exterior maps of the inn, starting with the Waterdeep city map from FR1 Waterdeep and the North: The first official map of the Yawning Portal’s interior appears in the City System boxed set.
Now that we’ve walked through the textual history of the Yawning Portal, let’s take a peek at how the location has been mapped over the years.
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