Welcome to 2025 and another year of mapping goodness with the Cartographer’s Annual – now Vol 19. We are starting the year with an overhaul, revisit and expansion of an older style: Ancient Realms by TJ Vandel.
Already one of the largest annual styles in terms of number of symbols, we’ve expanded the range of symbols available with varicolor versions, overhauled the available bitmap fills and added to the drawing tools of the style. The sheets and their effects were also considerably changed to take advantage of all the work that has been done in that regard since the style was originally published.
The January issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can still do so here at the early subscriber discount (until January 15th).
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Both the December issue and bonus issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2024 are available, bringing you a new black and white overland style and additional random dungeons.
The Cartographer’s Annual subscription for 2025 is now available, and you can subscribe at a reduced cost. If you are a current subscriber, be sure to check your email, as you should have received your re-subscription offer that way. Otherwise, visit the Annual 2025 web page for the early subscription discount.
We have the first three issues lined up, starting with a revisited Ancients Realms style by TJ Vandel from 2009 with new symbols, new fills, new effects and new and updated drawing tools.
Next in line is an issue that combines FT3+ exports with new templates in CC3+ for new parchment overland maps. And then in March Sue Daniel provides a great overland style tentatively named “Bird’s Eye Overland”. If you want to provide some input and feedback for that, check out her style development thread on the ProFantasy forum.
As always, subscribing to the Annual will give you access to all twelve monthly issues as they are released, plus a bonus issue at the end of the year. If you want to see an example of all the great content you will receive, check out the Annual 2024.
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.
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.
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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.
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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:
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.
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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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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.
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Watch or re-watch the recent live mapping video from our playlist on YouTube.
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