The Cartographer’s Annual September issue is now available. Enjoy a beautiful selection of compass roses and scalebars by Gerri Broman (aka Shessar) to use in any of your maps. Learn how to make them available in various ways in any drawing style by reading the accompanying mapping guide.
The September 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.
As Mike Schley is busy working on another project we can’t quite talk about yet, we are pivoting the free monthly symbols from the Dungeons of Schley style to the Hand-drawn Fantasy style introduced with the Cartographer’s Annual 2025. This month we add elven stuctures to the style, from large cities to towers, hidden strongholds and holy sites.
Note that the example maps included with this free content make use of the full Hand-drawn Fantasy style from the Cartographer’s Annual 2025. If you don’t have that Annual installed, you won’t see these correctly, but you can still use the symbols on other maps. The Cartographer’s Annual 2025 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. The new symbols are listed there. All the content of year (up to August 2025) is included in the one download.
You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.
The Cartographer’s Annual August issue is now available. Explore the pirate hideout Fort Morgan mapped by Kevin Goebel (Royal Scribe) as his first contribution to the Annual. Four detailed location maps with annotations and descriptions await you in this beautiful map pack.
The July 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.
Next week is the big event of the year again: GenCon 2025 in Indianapolis and we’ll have our booth as usual. You’ll find us (and yours truly) in the exhibit hall at booth 623.
If you are attending, please stop by, say hello and chaut with us about map-making, gaming and whatever takes your fancy. I’m looking forwrd to seeing as many of you as possible. I’ll have our development version of CC4 at the show and happily give you a little sneak peek.
See you in Indianapolis!
P.S.: Here are some images from GenCon – the ProFantasy booth and impressions from the event in general.
The next set of free monthly symbols is here and this time Mike Schley takes you to the graveyard … hopefully not to bury you, but investigate some strange goings on. Who dug that grave and why did they leave the monstrous skeleton they chucked in there unburied? What disturbed their work? 20 new symbols let you populate a graveyard with gothic tombstones, pedestals and statues, as well as opened graves and their accompaning tools and dirt piles.
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 (up to July 2025) is included in the one download.
You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.
The July issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is now available, and with it the work of a new map-maker among our contributors. We found Prajyot Kumar‘s map work very interesting and asked him to create a style for CC3+. Here is the result, a vibrant and colorful overland style, well-suited to mapping individual regions of a fantasy world – hence the name.
The July 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.
Mike Schley created another set of dungeon symbols for the free monthly content and your pleasure. This month the set adds lots of paraphernalia that you might find in the study of a “man of science”, like an astrolabe, brushes and an easel, a globe of the world and a telescope. And not to forget a staff and wizard’s hat!
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 (up to June 2025) is included in the one download.
You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.
The June issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is now available. It expands last month’s Fantasy Hand-drawn style with lots more symbols, new drawing tools and a new fill style. You can build near-eastern and Egyptian settings with the oriental buildings included, put sea monsters and creatures into your oceans, and add many little details to your landscapes.
The June 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.
Mike Schley created a new set of dungeon symbols for the free monthly content and your pleasure. Take a seat on one of these symbols to feel like royalty, but beware, the throne might crumble beneath you and dump you unceremoniously on the floor! The April symbol pack “Royal Seating” contains 20 new symbols for the Dungeons of Schley style, and provides a range of sumptuous thrones to seat that royalty – or show its decline and fall with the destroyed versions.
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 (up to April 2025) is included in the one download.
You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.
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.
