For those of you who haven’t seen them, we do a live mapping session on YouTube most weeks, showcasing a certain style or set of tools in CC3+. Here are the most recent Live Mapping videos, as archived on YouTube:
October has been amazing as far as the number of beautiful maps I had to browse is concerned. Many thanks to all the wonderful map-makers out there, whether featured or not. Please keep the great work coming and enjoy this small selection:
Kevin Goebel created a series of maps for Halloween, showing a Swamp Hag’s hut in wonderful detail. He used a variety of styles and made great use of the Marine Dungeons in this particular map.
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Humble Bundle is currently doing another re-run of the first Campaign Cartographer 3+ bundle, the Maps Extravaganza, containing not only CC3+, but also depending on the level chosen:
- City Designer 3
- Dungeon Designer 3
- Tome of Ultimate Mapping Plus
- Perspectives 3
- Sources Maps: Castles
- Source Maps: Temples, Tombs and Catacombs
- Symbol Set 2 – Fantasy Floorplans
- Token Treasury – Monsters 1
- Battle Maps and Floorplans Collection (contains a selection of Annual issues)
If you were waiting to jump into CC3+, this is a great opportunity to get it at an awesome price. Even if you already own CC3+, this can be well worth it to get a great selection of add-ons. Part of the cost goes toward charity, Save the Children.
The bundle runs until December 4th.
Well met, Mappers! We are working our way through the 2015 Annual and this month’s style is City Panoramas, by TJ Vandel. This style is modeled off the 16th century publishers and engravers, Braun and Hogenberg, famous for their “birds-eye view” maps of cities from all around the world. I will admit, I did a bit of a Google deep dive looking at their maps, and they are fantastic, and I highly recommend you all taking a look.
For this map I didn’t do anything special out side of the provided Mapping Guide. I really like this style, and think if you get yourself into an editor and have the skills (of which, I do not 😊 ), anything free will do, you could get this map to have that old, antique look of the original Braun and Hogenberg works.
About the author: Lorelei was my very first D&D character I created more years back than i’d like to remember. When I decided to venture into creating maps for my and others rpgs, I thought I owed it to her to name myself Lorelei Cartography, since it was her that led me to the wonderful world of tabletop gaming in the first place. Since then I have been honored to have worked with companies such as WizKids, Pelgrane Press, and ProFantasy.
The November issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2024 is now available. This month we have a new town or local area map style for you, Satellite Streets. It takes the idea of a satellite/aerial view of a real-world area, like you would see on a modern web-based map application and gives you the tools to create your own fictional one, using City Designer 3 tools. The style is ideal for villages or small towns in modern settings. Real-world maps can easily be used by importing them as a background. The 4-page mapping guide takes you through creating a Satellite Streets map in a few easy steps.
The November issue can now be downloaded by all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2024 yet, you can do so here.
Do strange and alien civilizations exist in the lands you are mapping? Do hives of insectoid creatures dot the wasteland of your world? Then use this month’s free symbols by Mike Schley to put them on the map!
To download the latest free symbols go to your registration page and on the Downloads tab, click the download button for Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus. Mike’s new symbols are the last link in the list. All the content of the current year (January to October 2024 so far) is included in the one download.
You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.
News
- The October issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2024 is available, with the whimsical Sticky Note Dungeon style by C.C. Charon.
- Mike Schley latest free monthyly symbols expand the selection of Mesomaerican settlements.
- The winners of the 1000th Community Atlas Map competition have been selected and announced. Congratulations!
Resources
- Watch or re-watch the recent live mapping video from our playlist on YouTube.
- Check out the community’s Maps of the Month for September.
Articles
- Christina continues her journey through the Annual 2015 in her All the Annuals series, with Classic Fantasy style.
- In his last article in the series on bitmap tile images Remy looks at creating more advanced versions of the symbols.
Reminders
- CC3+’s current version is 3.98. Check in Help > About and if your version is older, run Update 28 for CC3+ available from your registration page.
- Join our community of map-makers on the Profantasy forum and/or the Facebook group.
Hello fellow map-makers. It’s time to take another look at the gorgous maps our community createst, this time the ones posted in September. Please note that I’ve left out all the wonderful contributions to the 1000th Community Atlas map competition, because they are all collected in a seperate gallery on the forum. As always, many thanks for sharing your work, and if you have not yet, please consider doing so on the forum or our Facebook group.
I can’t but start with the wonderful giant turtle Aspidochelone rendered by RoyalScribe in the Marine Dungeons style. Isn’t it just fantastic?
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During the last few months, we ran the celebratory competition for the 1000th map in the Community Atlas Project. The competition is now over, and Royal Scribe won the honor of getting the official 1000th map in the atlas, while Ricko Hasche took home the prize for best map by community vote. You can see all the winners, and check an image gallery containing all the maps.
The Winning Entry: Metzvel by Ricko Hasche
I thought I could continue on with the topic of the atlas today, and give a little overview of the macros I use in the project, both in the maps themselves, and the ones I use when processing the maps. To avoid making this a 10-part series, this will just be a basic overview of them, to give people ideas how they can utilize macros in their own mapping.
Hello Cartographers! It’s another monthly annual for the 2015 Annual and we have a classis … Classic Fantasy, that is. This style, Classic Fantasy, brings us back to the days of the classic fantasy novel map, usually found in the inside cover or the first few pages. I remember spending so much time pouring over the maps of my favorites novels, Wheel of Time, The Dragonlance Series, Lord of the Rings, and studying them working out where all important moments from the books happened. If a book comes without a map, it’s a huge disappointment, and not because I make them, because I love them. 😊
For this month’s map, I just made a simple environs map, depicting an area where there was a historic battle that took place between two long warring realms – the perfect setting for a short story or campaign. By following the Mapping Guide, this map took me no time at all to put together – also a plus for those last minute maps needed for any RPG campaign!
About the author: Lorelei was my very first D&D character I created more years back than i’d like to remember. When I decided to venture into creating maps for my and others rpgs, I thought I owed it to her to name myself Lorelei Cartography, since it was her that led me to the wonderful world of tabletop gaming in the first place. Since then I have been honored to have worked with companies such as WizKids, Pelgrane Press, and ProFantasy.
