If more than half a square is covered, consider the square to be affected Overlay it on your battle grid in the direction your caster wants to direct their cone.

(requires advance preparation) Create a scale template on a piece of 1' grid paper.

If you don't want to just eyeball it you have 2 choices: Thus the diagrams given from the Pathfinder SRD are not applicable. That is a 53-degree cone, not a 90-degree cone as 3.5e used. Two areas that came with the expansion Tales of the Sword Coast, namely Ulgoth's Beard and Durlag's Tower, though integrated in the map, don't fit into this array due to being added after the technical completion of the main game.A cone's width at a given point along its length is equal to that point's distance from the point of origin. There are also interiors of dungeons and buildings. There are 54 mapped areas that can be traveled to above ground, these are all eventually unlocked on the World Map. This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast‎ campaign. The rest (including Tales of the Sword Coast) are Sword Coast areas.īaldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (1999) There is no strict rule here, only an aesthetic rationale: it is convenient and practical for all of the areas in Baldur's Gate game to be considered part of the Sword Coast for the Sword Coast to have its own town, Beregost for the areas around Baldur's Gate City to be in Western Heartlands, and for Amn's borders to be on the same latitude as Nashkel.ĭisc 1, the north part of Disc 2, Disc 4 and Baldur's Gate itself are both Sword Coast and Western Heartlands, Disc 3 is Amn.

Finally, Amn and the Heartlands can be seen as being divided, with the Sword Coast in between as its own entity.Ĭategories on this wiki are currently arranged according to the latter viewpoint. One can also see the Coast as merging from Amn into Heartlands, or that the Heartlands stop at Baldur's Gate, etc.

Some players are ambivalent and subscribe to more expansive definitions of the Western Heartlands with the border line at Beregost, which roughly divides the Sword Coast up into Western Heartlands and Amn. It is a matter of dispute whether certain areas in the game belong to Western Heartlands or Amn. With a few exceptions, such as the Cloakwood forests, the names below are either the displayed names, or an unequivocal description of their geographical location which aids navigation the more evocative names are shown in their respective articles.Ĭanon is real life politics in the service of imaginary things that can be fun, and often makes them not the Baldur's Gate game is surely not seen as canon by some Forgotten Realms players. The developers gave all of these locations colorful names, but not all are visible in-game. Baldur's Gate & Tales of the Sword Coast įully explored original Baldur's Gate world map

Dnd grid map