While the year is quickly churning towards its end, let’s pause for a month, look over the shoulder and enjoy the maps the community shared in November.
Stephen St John created this wonderful city map with Pär Lindström’s Renaissance City style.
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As usual, we close the year with the Annual’s bonus issue and make one issue available for free (which this year is actually the bonus issue). The bonus issue adds the Random Dungeon generator for the DD3 Dungeon style that comes with Dungeon Designer 3. The Random Dungeon command was introduced as a free download, but only included the style components for the Jon Roberts Dungeon style.
This Annual issue expands the options and also contains instruction on how to implement it for any other dungeon style, so you can use your favorite style for it.
The Bonus issue can now be downloaded by all subscribers from their registration page, and it is also freely available from the Annual page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2024 yet, you can do so here.
Resubscription to the 2025 Annual will become available next week.
Greetings Mappers! Christina (Lorelei) here with another All the Annuals, version 2015. This month’s annual is the well loved (by Quenten for sure 😊 ) Local Area Maps by our beloved Pär Lindström. This style is perfect for mapping smaller areas for your players or your own needs. Mapping out smaller areas of your home world is a great way to be able to include all the neat areas you’ve invented in your world in a condensed map, making navigating the region much easier for your players.
This palette, fills and symbols of the style is very story-like and whimsical, making it perfect for many different campaign settings. I especially like to play with muting some of the colors when I want a map to seem a bit darker, in nature, not only color, which is why I added a Saturation/Hue to most of the terrain Sheets, taking the green down a notch with some grey, which instantly takes the fairytale nature out of the map, if you’re dark and morose, like me 😊
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.
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:
The December issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2024 is now available and brings you a wonderful new overland style by C.C. Charon. It is inspired by pencil sketches like you might find in a cartographer’s notebook and includes more than one hundred stylish black & white symbols which combine with easy to use drawing tools for quick and simple pencil sketch maps. Two examples maps show you the beauty that the style creates and the 5-page mapping guide takes you through the whole process of using it yourself.
The December 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 you think cities, towns and villages are not enough to adequately depict the glory and splendour of an alien hive civilization? So do we! So Mike has drawn more structures from temples and workshops to brood halls and ruins and we’ve done a second set of hive settlements from them. We hope you enjoy them.
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.
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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:
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.
