ProFantasy's Map-Making Archive

The April issue of the Annual 2026 has been released, giving you a second installment of content for January’s Hand-drawn City style with new symbols and drawing tools.

You can now put your cities, including castles and extensive fortifications on looming cliffs, bury the dead in proper graveyards and cemeteries, and plant lush greenery in city parks and the rural surroundings.

The April issue is now available to download for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

You need towering structures rising from a jungle canopy or megalithic temples sitting on a lonely desert plateau? We’ve got you covered, so let’s climb the impressive step pyramids in this month’s free symbols of Mesoamerican Structures.

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 from August 2025 to January 2026 is included in the one download. All previous content has been folded into the latest update for CC3+ (Update 28).

The March issue of the Cartographer’s Annual has been released, and it brings you a wonderful new map pack by Kevin Goebel. Explore the town of Edrinbury and the Black Cat Inn on 7 detailed maps ranging from the town through the inn floorplans all the way down to the establishment’s basement. A full description gives you hooks and adventure ideas to use in your own games. And of course you can adapt the maps in CC3+ for your own settings.

The March issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

News

• The February issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2026 is available, presenting a new modern floorplan style by Ute Gundacker.
• The February free monthly symbols add alien structures and settlements to the Hand-drawn Fantasy style.

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 January.

Articles

• Remy teaches you how to create hand-drawn looking handouts for your players using random dungeon generation, the Sticky Notes Dungeon style and parchment backgounds.
• Ralf shares a map done for for his private rpg campaign, but which connects to some of his work in a published campaign.

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.

In a personal flashback to a some very old vector symbols, I sat down to recreate the alien structures symbols from the original Dark Fantasy symbol set, this time for the Hand-drawn Fantasy style. Do you need settlements for a hive-like insectoid species? Or something weirder even? The Alien Structures give you all the options to place them on the map!

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 from August 2025 to January 2026 is included in the one download. All previous content has been folded into the latest update for CC3+ (Update 28).

We are proud to present a new contributor to the Cartographer’s Annual: Ute Gundacker, longtime community member and prolific sharer of wonderful maps with a modern or future theme to them. One of her latest endeavors, a scientific underwater site, caught our eye and Ute agreed to make it a proper style for the Annual. The style is based on the Modern Blueprints style from Symbol Set 3 – Modern but goes beyond it by using bitmap fills and symbols and adding effects and decorations that make the maps into proper thematic handouts. We hope you enjoy the style!

The February issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

The full setup of the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 19 (2025) is now available, meaning you can install it by downloading and running one file from your registration page.

There is no need to run this setup, if you followed the Annual as the monthly issues were released, but if you skipped some or are only now purchasing the Annual Vol 5, you only need to use this one download.

Until next week the new year’s Annual, the Cartographer’s Annual 2026, is still available at an early-subscriber discount of 15%. Check it out here.

Welcome to a new year and a new Cartographer’s Annual, dear mappers! We start of January with a new city style, completing the trilogy od hand-drawn style that we started last year. The Hand-drawn City style combines hand-drawn symbols with bitmap textures, symbol fills and the powerful city-drawing tools of City Designer 3.

The January issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

The early-subscriber discount is still available for a few days, so you can get it at 15% discount. If you subscribed to the 2025 Cartographer’s Annual and missed the re-subscription offer, let us and we’ll resend the link to you.

The Cartographer’s Annual subscription for 2026 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 2026 web page for the early subscription discount.

We have the first three issue planned out and youc an see previews of those on the page linked above. We start off with a new city style, applying the hand-drawn treatment that you’ve seen for overland and dungeon maps to cities, towns, and villages.

We then have a new style by Ute Gundacker for modern floorplans in an architectural drawing style with a special emphasis on undersea stations. But these can be used for any kind of modern facilities of course! And for March there will be a new set of detailed maps by Kevin Goebel with his signature high quality floorplans and battle maps.

Subscribe to the Cartographer’s Annual 2026 now!

As usual, we close the year with the Annual’s bonus issue and make one issue available for free – this year it’s the Ancient Realms Revisited style from January.

The bonus issue adds the Random Dungeon generator for the Hand-drawn Dungeon style that we’ve been developing this year. Created randomized layouts with room, corridors, caverns and flooded areas, and then add to your random layput with the the normal tools of the style – they included mapping guide teaches you how to bridge the gap.

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 2025 yet, you can do so here.

Annual 2026 subscribers should have received their re-subscription offer for the Annual 2026. Please contact us, if you haven’t received your email.