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.
Humble Bundle is offering the Maps Extravaganza Revisited 2024 bundle – a great opportunity to either start with CC3+ and/or grab several add-ons at an amazing price.
The November issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2024 is available, adding a modern street view to the selection of drawing styles.
Mike Schley latest free monthly symbols add alien insectoid settlements to his overland style.
Resources
Watch or re-watch the recent live mapping video from our playlist on YouTube.
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. Continue reading »
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.
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.
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