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 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.
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.
Welcome to 2025 and another year of mapping goodness with the Cartographer’s Annual – now Vol 19. We are starting the year with an overhaul, revisit and expansion of an older style: Ancient Realms by TJ Vandel.
Already one of the largest annual styles in terms of number of symbols, we’ve expanded the range of symbols available with varicolor versions, overhauled the available bitmap fills and added to the drawing tools of the style. The sheets and their effects were also considerably changed to take advantage of all the work that has been done in that regard since the style was originally published.
The January issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can still do so here at the early subscriber discount (until January 15th).
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.
As usual, we close the year with the Annual’s bonus issue and make one issue available for free (which this year is actually the bonus issue). The bonus issue adds the Random Dungeon generator for the DD3 Dungeon style that comes with Dungeon Designer 3. The Random Dungeon command was introduced as a free download, but only included the style components for the Jon Roberts Dungeon style.
This Annual issue expands the options and also contains instruction on how to implement it for any other dungeon style, so you can use your favorite style for it.
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 2024 yet, you can do so here.
Resubscription to the 2025 Annual will become available next week.
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.
The November issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2024 is now available. This month we have a new town or local area map style for you, Satellite Streets. It takes the idea of a satellite/aerial view of a real-world area, like you would see on a modern web-based map application and gives you the tools to create your own fictional one, using City Designer 3 tools. The style is ideal for villages or small towns in modern settings. Real-world maps can easily be used by importing them as a background. The 4-page mapping guide takes you through creating a Satellite Streets map in a few easy steps.
The November 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.
The October issue of the Annual 2024 delivers a wonderfully whimsical and simple dungeon style by community mapper CC Charon, where colorful sticky notes represent dungeon rooms. Corridors drawn on the background paper connect them, and they are populated by handdrawn traps and monsters. 120 hand-drawn bitmap symbols, 18 drawing tools, 7 bitmaps styles and a 3-page mapping guide combine in the Sticky Notes Dungeon style to allow you paste together charming dungeon designs within minutes.
The October issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2024 yet, you can do so here.
In the September issue of the Annual 2024 we take a look at, use and reference all the different free monthly overland symbols that have been released over the last two and a half years. There are 20 different sets now, and we thought it was high time to take a look at them as a complete package, how to they interact and also to give a way to look them up and find them more easily.
This Annual issue includes a large and detailed world map, that uses all the different monthly symbols, showcasing them per set. The accompanying mapping guide explains the sets and adds a little bit of background ideas and story seeds for the world shown, while a pdf reference guide serves as a look up.
The September issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2024 yet, you can do so here.
