The Cartographer’s Annual August issue is now available. Explore the pirate hideout Fort Morgan mapped by Kevin Goebel (Royal Scribe) as his first contribution to the Annual. Four detailed location maps with annotations and descriptions await you in this beautiful map pack.
The July issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.
Next week is the big event of the year again: GenCon 2025 in Indianapolis and we’ll have our booth as usual. You’ll find us (and yours truly) in the exhibit hall at booth 623.
If you are attending, please stop by, say hello and chaut with us about map-making, gaming and whatever takes your fancy. I’m looking forwrd to seeing as many of you as possible. I’ll have our development version of CC4 at the show and happily give you a little sneak peek.
See you in Indianapolis!
Campaign Cartographer contains a host of nice features to help you make your maps. But it also contain some features whose functionality might need a bit more of an explanation before one understand how to use them properly, and why they on the surface might seem complicated when compared to a similar feature in an image editor.
One of these features is text. If you are new to CC3+ you might have experiencing that text sometimes appear to have a mind of it own, and you may have experienced behavior where text looks perfect as you place it, but when you zoom in or out, it may appear to no longer fit into the space for it, or that text you struggled placing neatly in the corner of the map suddenly expands into/over the map border.
So, let us have a look. Why can text be so troublesome at times? And how can we master it to make it work like we want?
Before continuing on, note that I did intentionally go looking for bad cases here. In many cases, you won’t notice this problem at all, but the idea behind this article is that when/if you encounter this, you should understand why, and how to handle it.
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Welcome dear Cartographers for another great selection of user maps from our community! All of these were posted on the Profantasy forum our the CC3+ group on Facebook.
Now, I’m quite smug to see that people have been been using the new Hand-drawn Fantasy style quite a bit, not least among them our extremely prolifc community member Ricko Hasche.
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If you’ve missed any of the live mapping sessions we do on YouTube most weeks, showcasing a certain style or set of tools in CC3+, you’ll find them archived and organized into playlists on YouTube. Here are the most recent ones:
The next set of free monthly symbols is here and this time Mike Schley takes you to the graveyard … hopefully not to bury you, but investigate some strange goings on. Who dug that grave and why did they leave the monstrous skeleton they chucked in there unburied? What disturbed their work? 20 new symbols let you populate a graveyard with gothic tombstones, pedestals and statues, as well as opened graves and their accompaning tools and dirt piles.
Note that the example maps included with this free content make use of Symbol Set 4 to showcase the symbols in proper surroundings. If you don’t have SS4 installed, you won’t see these correctly, but you can still use the symbols on other maps. Symbol Set 4 – Dungeons of Schley is available for purchase here.
To download the free content go to your registration page and on the Downloads tab, click the download button for Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus. Mike’s new symbols are listed there. All the content of year (up to July 2025) is included in the one download.
You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.
The July issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is now available, and with it the work of a new map-maker among our contributors. We found Prajyot Kumar‘s map work very interesting and asked him to create a style for CC3+. Here is the result, a vibrant and colorful overland style, well-suited to mapping individual regions of a fantasy world – hence the name.
The July issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.
A common way to label maps is to place a number next to an important feature (building, room, prominent location, trap, etc). The advantage to just using a simple number is that it takes less space in the map, making it look less cluttered, something that is very helpful if you need lots of labels in a small space. Number labels also doesn’t betray any information by themselves, so it can be used on dungeon rooms without players knowing their meaning just from seeing the map.
These markers can of course be placed using the regular text commands, but one very easy way that are often overlooked is to use the Number Label command found in CC3+. This command is designed to make it extremely simple to quickly place multiple labels with automatically incrementing numbers.
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