I know it's very styleised, and clearly drawn in an imprecise "medieval" style...

But any clues as to roughly what the scale is on the poster map of the Rokugan?

EE suggests that the coastline is 1,000's of miles long, and certainly gives the impression that it is very large, but it'd be good to have a very rough idea of the intended distances between cities, etc (if only to work out whether travel times are measured in days, weeks or months),

At a guess I'd have to say somewhere between 1:1,000,000 (1cm = 10km) and 1:10,000,000 (1cm = 100km)?

Whilst it isn't explicitly stated, I assume that the shown villages are "villages of significance" (for historical, political or strategic reasons) and not intended to be all of the villages in the empire, most of which I would net expect to see on a map at that sort of scale?

2 hours ago, gareth_lazelle said:

Whilst it isn't explicitly stated, I assume that the shown villages are "villages of significance" (for historical, political or strategic reasons) and not intended to be all of the villages in the empire, most of which I would net expect to see on a map at that sort of scale?

They have a section on cartography. Basically, everyone knows the map is inaccurate, and whole villages and even towns may be 'mislaid' - compare notes with a clan's "local" map if you want an accurate, detailed version (if they let you have it).

2 hours ago, gareth_lazelle said:

But any clues as to roughly what the scale is on the poster map of the Rokugan?

An older edition map had a scale key:

6 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:

They have a section on cartography. Basically, everyone knows the map is inaccurate, and whole villages and even towns may be 'mislaid' - compare notes with a clan's "local" map if you want an accurate, detailed version (if they let you have it).

the Map is EE is also inaccurate. Check the location of the Ki-rin shrine. The placement is in Dragon Land.
But then the section about the Ki-Rin shrine says it is in Asako land (as per old 5r).

9 hours ago, gareth_lazelle said:

Whilst it isn't explicitly stated, I assume that the shown villages are "villages of significance" (for historical, political or strategic reasons) and not intended to be all of the villages in the empire, most of which I would net expect to see on a map at that sort of scale?

While the 5e map is the same from product to product, you might find different places highlighted on the map each time you see it. The goal seems to be to pinpoint locations discussed or useful in that specific context. So it's not so much which places are important in general, as which places are important for what you're reading/playing.

The base 5e book sets the Empire as 900mi long by 600mi wide at their widest points. I need to put together a grid overlay but haven't really got the stuff for it. I'll get around to it eventually.

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