News

• The April issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is now available, bringing you a colorful, comic book-like overland style.
• Humble Bundle is currently running a mega-bundle, including almost all of the products of ProFantasy Software.

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 March.

Articles

• Remy Monsen starts a new series of articles about information in maps, and start with a look at city demographics and how to display them.

From the Archives

• If Remy’s articles tickles your interest, check out Ari Gilder’s excellent article series on city mapping.

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.

Humble Bundle has just extended the current super-bundle of our software, so there’s still a chance for you to grab this amazing offer of CC3+, FT3+, all of the add-ons and symbol sets, as well as almost all of the Annuals for an unprecedented low price.

If you were waiting to jump into CC3+, this is a great opportunity to get it at an awesome price. Even if you already own CC3+, this can be well worth it to fill out your selection of add-ons. Part of the cost goes toward charity, Save the Children.

The April issue of the Cartographer’s Annual is now available. Bubble Gum Fantasy is a whimsical and colorful style by new contributor Will B. Quick and easy to use, the style allows you draw maps like illustrations in computer or mobile games.

The April 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.

We’re back on schedule with the March monthly symbols! We are climbing up towards the light this month, instead of descending of the dark of the dungeon. Height differences are always hard to depict on a top down map, so Mike has produced symbols that help with that. The “Outdoor Heights” symbol pack contains cliff edges, slopes, and a variety of helpful tools to navigate them, from rope ladders to climbing poles.

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 is included in the one download.

You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.

Here is the March issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025. This month we have a treat for you with a wonderful new style by Sue Daniel. She created a top-down landscape style for sprawling, colorful continental maps, along with a mapping guide taking you through her process of map creation.

The March 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.

Create sweeping world maps with a couple clicks in Fractal Terrains and then export them to Camapaign Cartographer for detailing! With the February issue we are focussing on Fractal Terrains 3+ for a change, with a mapping guide, settings and colorings to produce parchment-style worlds maps in FT3+ and export them easily to CC3+. The included Fractal Parchments Worlds style is based on last year’s parchment worlds, but focuses on larger world maps and can be used with last year’s Annual as well.

The February 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.

The full setup of the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 18 (2024) is now available, meaning you can install it by downloading and running one file from your registration page.

There is no need to re-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 Friday the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is still available at an early-subscriber discount of 15%. Check it out here.

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.

Subscribe to the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 now.

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.

Humble Bundle is currently doing another re-run of the first Campaign Cartographer 3+ bundle, the Maps Extravaganza, containing not only CC3+, but also depending on the level chosen:

• City Designer 3
• Dungeon Designer 3
• Tome of Ultimate Mapping Plus
• Perspectives 3
• Sources Maps: Castles
• Source Maps: Temples, Tombs and Catacombs
• Symbol Set 2 – Fantasy Floorplans
• Token Treasury – Monsters 1
• Battle Maps and Floorplans Collection (contains a selection of Annual issues)

If you were waiting to jump into CC3+, this is a great opportunity to get it at an awesome price. Even if you already own CC3+, this can be well worth it to get a great selection of add-ons. Part of the cost goes toward charity, Save the Children.

The bundle runs until December 4th.