The May issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is now available. This month brings you a new overland style, by yours truly. I’ve been inspired to sit down with pencil and inks, create some hand-drawn symbols and then create a fresh new style from them. In addition to giving you a nice and easy-to-use overland style, it will allow me to show the whole process of creating and using your own artwork in CC3+. I will also be able to easily expand the style with additional symbols in the future.

The May 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.

News

• The April issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is now available, bringing you a colorful, comic book-like overland style.
• Humble Bundle is currently running a mega-bundle, including almost all of the products of ProFantasy Software.

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 March.

Articles

• Remy Monsen starts a new series of articles about information in maps, and start with a look at city demographics and how to display them.

From the Archives

• If Remy’s articles tickles your interest, check out Ari Gilder’s excellent article series on city mapping.

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.

Humble Bundle has just extended the current super-bundle of our software, so there’s still a chance for you to grab this amazing offer of CC3+, FT3+, all of the add-ons and symbol sets, as well as almost all of the Annuals for an unprecedented low price.

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 fill out your selection of add-ons. Part of the cost goes toward charity, Save the Children.

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:

Welcome dear cartographer to the latest monthly community maps, i.e. the Maps of the Month from March. Thank you for all your great contributions to our forum and the Facebook group!

We start with this amazing map of the world of Krynn by Dak. He’s used Sue Danie’s latest Birdseye Overland style for the map.
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The April issue of the Cartographer’s Annual is now available. Bubble Gum Fantasy is a whimsical and colorful style by new contributor Will B. Quick and easy to use, the style allows you draw maps like illustrations in computer or mobile games.

The April 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.

News

• The March issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is now available, providing a beautiful new overland style by Sue Daniel.
• The free monthly symbols schedule is back on track with the March set which provide height transition for outdoor maps.

Resources

• Mike Schley provides new dungeon symbols with the February free symbols.
• Watch or re-watch the recent live mapping video from our playlist on YouTube.
• Check out the community’s Maps of the Month for February.

Articles

• Remy Monsen goes in-depth by looking at the bitmap resolution formats in Campaign Cartographer 3+.

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.

Welcome dear cartographers to another month of mapping goodness from the Profantasy community. Check out some of the great maps they shared on the forum and in our Facebook group.

We start of with RoyalScribe‘s ongoing work on the temple of Zhao Guang Si monastery with the Trial of the Elements, a wonderful dungeon map using DD3 Dungeon and a variety of other styles.
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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 on YouTube. Here are the most recent ones:

We’re back on schedule with the March monthly symbols! We are climbing up towards the light this month, instead of descending of the dark of the dungeon. Height differences are always hard to depict on a top down map, so Mike has produced symbols that help with that. The “Outdoor Heights” symbol pack contains cliff edges, slopes, and a variety of helpful tools to navigate them, from rope ladders to climbing poles.

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 is included in the one download.

You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.