The October issue of the Annual 2024 delivers a wonderfully whimsical and simple dungeon style by community mapper CC Charon, where colorful sticky notes represent dungeon rooms. Corridors drawn on the background paper connect them, and they are populated by handdrawn traps and monsters. 120 hand-drawn bitmap symbols, 18 drawing tools, 7 bitmaps styles and a 3-page mapping guide combine in the Sticky Notes Dungeon style to allow you paste together charming dungeon designs within minutes.
The October issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2024 yet, you can do so here.
The September issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2024 is available, providing a large world map showcasing Mike Schley’s monthly symbols and giving background ideas and story seeds.
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:
Hello fellow map-makers! We have a wonderful new collection of user-contributed maps for you, all shared with the community in August. Thanks everybody for showing of your awesome work on the ProFantasy forum and/or the Facebook group!
Kevin Goebel used the Spectrum Overland style to map the Gold Coast of his fantasy world. It’s just one of several versions of the map in the same group post, which show up various kinds of information. Continue reading »
Following the Mapping Guide, I started first by creating the water, and then adding some elevation symbols around the banks and in the outer corners. I quickly decided that I would tie in this map to the OSR Dungeon map I had done earlier in the 2015 Annual series and sticking with the black and white theme, I added a section of ruins. Once I got in my main road of the hamlet, I used the Random Street tool to line the road with some houses. I then removed a few and inserted some of the symbol houses that come with the set to mix up the housing look of the hamlet. Some bushes, some trees and some accessories and 15 minutes later and this map was done.
Despite my love of color and texture blending, I oddly love this style more than I’d like to admit. I am going to quickly work up copies of many of my villages in my homebrew world, making printing up maps for my players so much easier and cost effective.
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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Since towns, cities and villages are hardly enough to visualize the cultural splendor of a Mesoamerican civilizations, we expand the collection with a variety of temples, shrines and other structures.
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 August 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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In the September issue of the Annual 2024 we take a look at, use and reference all the different free monthly overland symbols that have been released over the last two and a half years. There are 20 different sets now, and we thought it was high time to take a look at them as a complete package, how to they interact and also to give a way to look them up and find them more easily.
This Annual issue includes a large and detailed world map, that uses all the different monthly symbols, showcasing them per set. The accompanying mapping guide explains the sets and adds a little bit of background ideas and story seeds for the world shown, while a pdf reference guide serves as a look up.
The September issue is now available for 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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Mike Schley continues on his trip around the world and through the ages with the latest set of free monthly symbols. This time we stop in Mesoamerica with symbols depicting the iconic temples and plazas of those cultures. Marvel at their cities and towns and gape at the beauty of their architecture.
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 August 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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The Community Atlas Project is celebrating 1000 (!) user-contributed maps with a mapping competition. Participate with your own map to win great prizes!
The August issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2024 is available. We update and expand the Sarah Wroot overland style in this issue.
Mike Schley latest free monthyly symbols expand the range of Viking-style symbols for 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:
