There is a new update available for Campaign Cartographer 3. Update 11 brings CC3 up to version 3.43 and includes the following additions and changes:

• added CC3 Overland Hex mapping style including
  – 2 templates (imperial and metric)
  – 53 hex symbols in 8 catalogs
  – 55 drawing tools
  – 1 example map
  – 1 5-page mapping guide
• added Character Artist 3 master filter functionality
• added metric versions of all CC3 template wizards
• added CC3 Basic City style including
  – 2 templates (imperial and metric)
  – 35 drawing tools
  – 100 symbols
  – 1 example map
• improved Symbol Style Toggle handling
• removed SS1 style entries from CC3 master filters
• removed duplicate map notes in CC3 standard overland template
• replaced ImageMagick file Convert.exe with newer version

Check your CC3 version under Help > About in the menu. If it is less than 3.43, head over to your registration page and download CC3 Update 11 from among the CC3 downloads on the Products & Downloads tab.

ProFantasy will be at Dragonmeet, London’s friendliest gaming convention, coming Saturday (December 7th). We are looking forward to a day of games, seminars, chat and general gaming goodness.

We are also doing a special offer to support all those people running public games at Dragonmeet. If you are a GM hosting a game at the convention you get 50% off any purchase of ProFantasy and Noteboard products.

If you want to hear myself (Ralf) talk about maps, paper minis, and the Noteboard, join the seminar “Multimedia in Gaming” (12pm to 12:30pm in the Council Chamber) which also features composer James Semple and artist Andrew Hepworth.

The latest Annual issue is now available for subscribers from their registration page. The November Annual consists of a new hex mapping style based on the Bitmap Overland style that comes with CC3.

Templates, symbols and tools allow you to create a hex-based setting map in minutes, giving you that old-school explorer feeling with modern graphics! Check out this sample map of “The Warring Isles”:

The bags are packed, stock and supplied enroute, hectic activity is slowly giving way to contemplative travel mood… meaning GenCon is around the corner.

If you are one of the lucky visitors, come find us at booth (#101) directly across the big Paizo booth. We are sharing with our sister company Pelgrane Press. Stop by pick up the latest Annuals, any other products you might be missing, a demo of Character Artist 3 or just a quick chat about mapping.

Please bear with us if we respond a little more slowly in the coming days than usual. GenCon takes a lot of attention and energy.

We have just released the August issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2013. Check out the easy-to-use sci fi style for creating stunning star system charts. The bitmap artwork has been created by Joseph Sweeney of Storyweaver and you can use the style to create charts matching his High Space game maps.

Subscribers can download the issue from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2013, you can do so here.

The July issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2013 is now available. Check out Pär Lindström’s beautiful black & white overland style.

Subscribers can download the issue from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2013, you can do so here.

Dear Cartographers, welcome to the June newsletter!

News

• The June issue of the Annual 2013 has been released. Subscribe here.
• Check out a preview of the July Annual (by Pär Lindström).
• Character Artist 3 is coming together nicely. Here are some previews.
• Simon Rogers shows up new icon graphics for Campaign Cartographer 3.

Resources

• The June and May collections of community user maps include tons of gorgeous map artwork.
• Mysterious East meets Weird West in the Deadlands setting in this floorplan of a Chinatown block.

Map-Making Articles

• Master Mapper Joachim de Ravenbel has created a detailed tutorial on doing floorplans.

Dear Cartographers, welcome to the April newsletter!

News

• The April issue of the Annual 2013 has been released. Subscribe here.
• Kobold Press is offering a discount on its Kobold Guide to World-Building and other products for Profantasy customers. Check the details and read an excerpt of the guide here.
• ProFantasy will be at RPC Germany in Cologne (June 2nd to 3rd) and Origins Games Fair in Columbus (June 13th to 16th).

Resources

• Gweddyz’s Chatelet – Seven levels of gorgeous floorplans of a castle by community member Joachim de Ravenbel.
• Longhouse on a Clearing – more battle maps for Deadlands Reloaded.
• A parade of great user maps in the April round up from the forum.

Map-Making Articles

• Presenting new, clearer and bigger icons for Campaign Cartographer 3+.
• Three new video tutorials by Joseph Sweeney on old-school dungeon mapping.

We have released the April issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2013: The Midgard World overland style. Created in cooperation with Kobold Press and Jonathan Roberts, this style recreates the maps published in the Midgard fantasy campaign setting and the accompanying iPad atlas. You can now add your own regional maps for this setting, or recreate another world in the same mapping style.

Even better, the Midgard World style is compatible with the Jon Roberts overland style from the Annual Vol 5. They can be combined for a greatly enlarged variety of symbols and fill styles.

We’ve just released the March Annual issue: Flavio’s Myrr Overland style is now available as a download for the Annual subscribers.

His beautiful and unique overland style is based on intricate bitmap texture and shaded contours, as you can see from this sample:

You can subscribe to the current Annual here.