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{{Infobox book
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| author = [[Karen Wynn Fonstad]]
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The '''''Forgotten Realms Atlas''''' (ISBN 0-88038-857-9) wasis a book produced by [[Karen Wynn Fonstad]] and providedprovides detailed maps of the [[Forgotten Realms]], a fictional [[campaign setting|setting]] infor 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wolf |first1=Mark J. P. |title=Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation |date=14 March 2014 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-136-22081-4 |page=278 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k60W4FvGG5UC&pg=PA278 |language=en |access-date=18 August 2024 |archive-date=18 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240818183640/https://books.google.com/books?id=k60W4FvGG5UC&pg=PA278#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
The atlas also included timelines of various novels set in the world. The book was 210 pages, and was published in August 1990.
 
==Contents==
''The Forgotten Realms Atlas'' is an indexed book which contains three-color maps fromof the [[Forgotten Realms]] modules and novels.<ref name="HW"/><ref>{{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 }}</ref> This includes large, small [[Scale (map)|scale]] regional maps (one inch to two hundred miles), as well as detailed location maps and diagrams of story/scenario areas, and focuses onincluding the [[Moonshae Isles]], the Northwest lands near [[Waterdeep (city)|Waterdeep]], and the [[Western Heartlands]] areas neararound [[WaterdeepCormyr (cityfictional country)|WaterdeepCormyr]] and the [[Dalelands]].<ref name="HW"/> These large scale maps cover the areas detailed in Forgotten Realms game modules and novels that had been published before the ''Atlas''.
 
==Publication history==
''The Forgotten Realms Atlas'' was designed by [[Karen Wynn Fonstad]] and published in 1990 as a 192-page book.<ref name="HW">{{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}}</ref>
 
==Reception==
[[Lawrence Schick]], in his 1991 book ''Heroic Worlds'', calls the book a "Veryvery pretty, exhaustive sourcebook".<ref name="HW"/>
 
==References==
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