Hello fellow cartographers, welcome to the July newsletter. We’ve got new free symbols by Mike Schley for you, a beautiful new aquatic-themed Annual taking us below the sea, many beautiful maps, lots of videos and a technical article by Remy.

News

• The monthly content for CC3+ is available: Orcish settlements for the Mike Schley overland style.
• The July issue of the Annual 2021 is available, diving below the waves with a beautiful and special floorplan style by Sue Daniel.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for June.
• Ralf revisited more issues from the first Annual Volume (2007), and Sue prepared example maps for these.

Articles

• Remy Monsen shows you how to keep your map borders looking clean with a look at the map screen.
• Christina Trani continues her journey through All the Annuals with Parchment Maps issue from the Annual 2017.

Hello dear map-makers, welcome to the June newsletter. We’ve got lots of example maps for you, by Sue Daniel, Christina Trani and the whole user community, as well as another great technical article by Remy Monsen.

News

• Starting this month we are releasing monthly free content for Campaign Cartographer 3+. The first is a batch of new symbols by Mike Schley!
• The June issue of the Annual 2021 is available, providing templates and tools to create genealogy and family trees.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for May.
• After Ralf revisited the third Annual issue from 2007, Sue prepared new example map for the same using DD3 and the Fantasy Tavern style.

Articles

• Remy Monsen takes a look at one of the more rarely used sheet effects, the Spatial Matrix Process transformation.
• Christina Trani continues her journey through All the Annuals with Random Cities issue from the Annual 2017.

Hello fellow map-makers, welcome to the May newsletter. We’ve got lots of example maps for you, by Sue Daniel, Christina Trani and the whole user community, as well as another great technical article by Remy Monsen.

News

• The May issue of the Annual 2021 is available.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for April.

Articles

• Remy Monsen delves into symbol options, specifically ways to randomly tranform certains aspects of a symbol as it gets placed in a map.
• Christina Trani continues her journey through All the Annuals with Munson’s Mines from the Annual 2017.
• Ralf revisits the first Annual issues from 2007, while Sue prepares new example maps for the same.

Dear mappers, the first quarter of the year has flown past and although it is unlikely we’ll see each other at conventions this year, the signs are there that the pandemic will loosen its grip on the world in the coming months. We are certainly looking forward to be travelling again, and to be sharing the maps we create virtually with our gaming groups in person. But until then we can still be content to share them virtually, as so many of our users do in the Profantasy community forum and the Facebook group. You’ll find a sample selection of these below, along with the latest Annual issue, example maps by Christina Trani, a superbly useful article by Remy and the latest live videos.

News

• The April issue of the Annual 2021 is available.
• The winners of the Community Atlas mapping competition have been decided and the prize vouchers have been distributed.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for February.

Articles

• Christina Trani hast started on the next volume of the Cartographer’s Annual (Vol 11 – 2017) in her All the Annuals series. Check out a Black & White overland map, new wizard’s tower, a Wild West map and a star map maps.
• Remy Monsen provides a very useful guide on how to grid your dungeon floors, if you don’t want to slap a quick grid over your whole map.

News

• The brand new Token Treasury – Monsters 2 has just been released
• The February issue of the Annual 2021 is available.
• The Community Atlas project is running a mapping competition until the end of February where you can still win great prizes..

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos in our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for January.

Articles

• Christina Trani continues her journey through the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 12 (2018) with the November and December issues, creating an asian town map, a set of deckplan geomoprhs and the resulting starship.
• Remy Monsen takes an in-depth look at the RPG Matrix process sheet effect in CC3+.

News

• The Cartographer’s Annual 2021 is open for subscription at the early-subscriber discount for a few more days.
• The January issue of the Annual 2021 has been released.

Resources

• The Cartographer’s Annual Volume 14 (2020) is available as one collected setup and you can check out of the live mapping videos using its content.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for December.

Articles

• Christina Trani continues her journey through the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 12 (2018) with the October issue and an overland map.
• Remy Monsen writes up an awesome technique to create floor and wall inscriptions in dungeon floorplans and Perspective maps.

News

• The November Annual issue has been released. It expands on July’s Spectrum Overland style with many new symbols.

Resources

• We have many new live mapping videos available on YouTube. If you have time, you can join us on Thursday live at 5pm GMT for the actual sessions.
• Get inspired by the Maps of the Month for October, selected from all the great work of our user community.
• Check out our collection of this year’s city mapping resources.

Articles

• After finishing the 2019 Annual, Christina Trani steps back in time to go through all of the 2018 issues with example maps and comments. Available so far are January, February, March, April, and May.
• Remy Monsen takes a look at using multiple symbol styles in the same map and how to make that as easy as possible.
• In a more advanced article Remy continues his series on Developing add-ons with part 4: Interacting with CC3+.

News

• For the September Annual issue Sue Daniel a series of connecting cliff symbols to include in city maps.
• We have updated the ProFantasy Forum with a new version of the Vanilla forum software, which adds a lot of useful functionality. Check it out if you want to join our community.

Resources

• We’ve switched to YouTube for hosting our Live Mapping video tutorials, and of course they are all available for viewing.
• Check out our selection of last month’s community maps here.
• Remy Monsen’s article on symbol groups (see below) is also available in video format.

Articles

• Christina Trani wraps up the rest of Annual 2019 with her maps for the October, November and December issues.
• Remy Monsen looks at symbol groups and how to leverage them for your own use.

This month in the newsletter we’ve got the completion of the City design article series for you, wonderful new community maps, more example Annual maps by Christina and a long list of new YouTube videos.

News

• The August Annual issue bring you a style for retro-design starships, usable with out without Cosmographer 3.

Resources

• The archived live mapping videos of the last month are available on YouTube.
• Enjoy a selection of beautiful Maps of the Month created by our users in July.

Christian Trani continues her “All the Annuals“ series , where she creates a map for each of the Annual issues, starting with the Annual 2019. Check out the maps for July, August, and September of that year.

Articles

• Ari Gilder finsihes his series on city building with a discussion of final touches for the map.
• Remy Monsen looks at creating day and night versions of the same map. You can also check out his video version of the article.

Welcome to the second half of the year, dear fellow map-makers. June has been an amazing month with many new mappers joining our community via the Humble Bundle campaign. Thank you all for joining in and supporting Doctors without borders.

News

• The July Annual issue presents the Spectrum Overland style by Sue Daniel.

Resources

• The archived live mapping videos of the last month are available on YouTube.
• Enjoy all the beautiful Maps of the Month created by our users in June.
• Christian Trani continues her “All the Annuals“ series , where she creates a map for each of the Annual issues, starting with the Annual 2019. Check out the maps for April, May, and June of that year.

Articles

• Ari Gilder continues his series on city building with a look at some special features of the city’s districts.
• In part 2 of his Perspectives article Remy Monsen looks at creating battlements for his ruined buildings.