This beautiful map was made using the Cartographer’s Annual Fantasy Map style found here by forum user Medio. You can follow its development on the forum.

Close up:

The political map:

Sven Lugar has created some excellent historical maps with CC3 at both miniature and non-minature scale. You can see a wide selection here on his website.

Here is Waterloo:

Naseby (English Civil War)

And Salerno

I’ve been dealing with general customer queries for a couple of weeks while Ralf is on a well deserved holiday. Aside from the odd bit of tech support and registration enquiries I’ve had a few emails about licensing – that is, whether you can publish and/or sell the maps you create with Campaign Cartographer 3. The answer is simple: Yes, you can. You hold all the rights to the artwork you create with ProFantasy’s Software.

What you may not do, is re-distributing the artwork that we provide, i.e. the symbols and catalogs that come with the software. This includes maps that are created solely for the purpose of distributing symbols. We also include floorplan-resolution exports (eg PDFs) consisting predominantly of our artwork in this proviso.

Think of the symbols as a True Type font you have bought. You may create and sell documents created with that font, but you may not redistribute the font itself, or create a book of fonts.

If you are already a ProFantasy Software customer, you now having something to put on your wish list – a ProFantasy Gift Voucher. You don’t need to be told what you can get – you already know!

This post is for people with roleplayers or map-makers in their lives other than themselves, so you’ve got an idea what your recipient can get with their gift voucher. And your recipient can combine vouchers, so that a game group can all chip in.

• For $45 they could get CC3 – the core of our line. It will enable the recipient to create maps for almost any genre.
• For $40 they could get any of our add-ons eg Dungeon Designer 3 or City Designer 3,or one of the Cartographer’s Annuals.
• Also for $40, as a stand-alone product, any of our collections of Source Maps or Fractal Terrains. You don’t even need to make maps to make use of these. Castles and Temples, Tombs have saved me hours of prep for D&D games.
• For $25 we have Symbol Sets for overland, floorplans and modern.
• Anything smaller, and it will take the edge of a purchase, or stack with other vouchers.

Because we like to be classy, our vouchers do not expire, unlike certain others. After all, we still offer downloads for ten-year-old orders.

L Lee Saunders is working on a random city generator for CC3. Lee has worked with ProFantasy for many years, producing features such as the fractal path and text around a curve. He has an excellent development blog for people who want to create CC3 add-ons, which he will mirror here.

The Random City Generator will be included in a future version of Campaign Cartographer or City Designer, or be available as a separate product. He’s gone beyond proof of concept – here is a screen shot. It already does basic CC3 import using the House command, and we’ll be reporting on its progress regularly.

Bill Roach, creator of the Terraformer add-on for Fractal Terrains, puts forward the rather contentious theory that there are only four types of planets in SF. These images, created using Fractal Terrains and Terraformer form the sturdiest pillar of his argument:

Terraformer is available from the Profantasy registration page, or here.

Back in the early 80s, I began my long-running AD&D campaign set in the Jaw Peninsula. I drew a map which slowly disintegrated, and which Mark Fulford (my now business partner) copied it out by hand, adding new details. When we started ProFantasy, this was our target map for the original Campaign Cartographer for DOS. The difficult thing initially was to get trees and mountains looking decent, and the discpline of printing only to a monochrome dot matrix helped here. This was created with line art, using the 16 colours then available:

With CC Pro for DOS we added raster fill styles which enabled us to stretch the 16 colours available into a range of shades:

Then we moved onto the Windows 95 version, which gave us the chance to redo the symbol set with a wider range of solid colours.

Up to this point, it was me, a non-artist who was doing the cartography. I asked Ralf to redo the map using the Fantasy Worlds style from the Annual 2009.

Here is a close up. This map saw service recently in a mammoth weekend session of AD&D, and I have a feeling that CC3 may need some more example maps…

I’m pleased to say that Cosmographer 3, the science fiction add-on for CC3  is out now.

It’s suffered from feature creep – or to be more precise, we’ve suffered from it, and you’ve benefited! It’s a much bigger and better product that we originally planned, more symbols, more styles and a wide variety of new map-making capabilities.

Existing customers and registered users have been emailed about their upgrade.

You can find out more  about Cosmographer 3 here.