Dear Cartographers, welcome to the April newsletter!

News

• Symbol Set 4 – The Dungeons of Schley has been released.
• The March and April issues of the Cartographer’s Annual 2014 are available.
• Artist and cartographer Mike Schley judged the January map-making competition for us and selected Christian Stiehl’s Cloiser Island map as the winner. Congratulations, Christian!
• We have opened an new map-making competition for April. Create a small cave, hide-out or lair to win a Unlimited Patron License.

Resources

• Browse through the beautiful user maps posted on the ProFantasy forum during Ferbuary and March.
• Want to see what amazing maps where submitted to our January competition? You can check them out here all side-by-side.
• See which drawing style you would like to use for your Dungeon Floorplans.
• Download one of many A1-sized battle maps from Ralf’s Deadlands campaign.

Map-making articles

• Winner Christian Stiehl sums up his thoughts on and experiences with the January competition.
• Read author Nat Russo’s excellent World Building Primer.
• Check out what Simon suggests if you need to draw an overland map for a fantasy novel.

Dear Cartographers, welcome to the February newsletter!

News

• We are announcing the Dungeons of Schley, a new symbol set in development.
• The February issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2014 is available, bringing you an in-depth look at creating paper miniatures with the help of Characater Artist 3.
• Profantasy’s January map-making competition is still open until the end of the month. Enter to win one of our Unlimited Patron Licenses by submitting your map on the forum.

Resources

• Check out The January collection of community maps, again including great artwork from our users.
• Download the Symbol Creation Guide for Character Artist 3. It provides a detailed tutorial on how to create and import your own bitmap symbols to use in CA3.

Map-making articles

• Read some wonderful feedback and see a gorgeous map from one of our users.

Dear Cartographers, welcome to the January newsletter!

News

• Enter our cartography competition and win a complete suite of software
• Character Artist 3 has been released and is receiving very good feedback. Get it here.
• The Cartographer’s Annual 2014 is available for susbcription. Check out the January issue.
• We released a new update for CC3: CC3 Update 11. It includes the free new mapping style CC3 Hex Overland.
• Subscribers for the Cartographer’s Annual 2013 got a bonus issue in December and can now download the full setup (including the bonus) from their registration page.

Resources

• The December collection of community user maps includes lots of great map artwork.
• Download free character standees created in Character Artist 3

Map-Making Articles

• Fractal Terrains developer takes on CC3+
• Enter our cartography competition and win a complete suite of software
• Ralf takes a look at the “Internationale Spieletage” (or “Spiel” for short) from the ProFantasy perspective.
• Simon explains the the process of creating a brand new mapping style for CC3+.

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.

A little late for January, perhaps, but here is the latest newsletter.

News

• The January issue of the Annual 2013 has been released. Subscribe here.
• A new bundle in the ProFantasy collection: The Top Three.

Resources

• A new CC3 user writes about his first experience.
• Forum user anomiecoalition talks about his desert-themed designs of Brightstone Keep and the Buried Temple of Ifar.
• The December and January roundups of user-created maps.
• How to gift ProFantasy’s software.
• A battle map of an underground lab and hide-out.

Map-Making Articles

• A new video tutorial by Joseph Sweeney about aligning side-view and floor plan maps.
• Forum member Flavion comes up with a unique new overland style for his Myrr dominion map.
• Pär Lindström uses the last year’s December Annual style (of his own design) to create the Vadsbro overland map and combines City Designer 3 and Photoshop work for a great city map of Farjvad.

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Look at the Myrr Dominion map here.

The latest articles and news from ProFantasy for the festive season.

News

• The Cartographer’s Annual vol 6 is out now. See this year’s highlights.
• The forthcoming Annual 2013, which will include includes a new style developed by Jonathan Roberts, is available for subscription at 10% off until December 20th
• Renowned cartographer Mike Schley is developing a complete overland style for CC3

Resources

• This month’s selection of user-created maps.
• Learning CD3 by Par Lindstrom
• Kartotum – creating an amazing city map
• Deadlands Battlemap by Ralf Schemmann

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The latest articles and news from ProFantasy from October.

News

• We’ve compiled a collection of 6 free samples from our Cartographer’s Annual.
• Spiel’12 – the world’s largest boardgame fair – opens on Thursday Oct 18th. Ralf will be there.
• Pär Lindström is building a new style for the December Annual.
• See previews of the November and December Annuals.
• October Annual released with new High Space SciFi textures.

Resources

• Latest user maps for October
• Suggest the best use of Ralf’s mapping time for the community.

Map-making articles

• A retrospective on almost 6 years of the Cartographer’s Annual.
• The Rules of Rivers – a guest article on river topography by Bill Roach.

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The latest articles and news from ProFantasy from September.

News

• Recent Releases – Symbol Set 3 and the Tome of Ultimate Mapping-last chance to get them at current prices
• Character Artist 3 update and an art poll. Please vote.
• The latest developments in forthcoming products from the code pit
• This month’s Annual – a gorgeous overland style inspired by the forthcoming 13th Age RPG

Resources

• Free Random City Generator by L Lee Saunders for City Designer 3 users
• Latest user maps for August and September
• From the Support Desk: Second Hand Software

Map-making articles

• Catacombs of evil – a short DD3 tutorial
• Overland mapping part 2 (part 1 is here)
• A new map in the 13th Age style

The latest articles and news from ProFantasy

News

• Read about the latest Annual entry, and the forthcoming tie-in with the 13th Age RPG from Pelgrane Press
• See examples of Character Artist 3 characters built with the new style.
• Recent Releases – Symbol Set 3 and the Tome of Ultimate Mapping
• New Perspectives map-making style

Resources

• Download a vast collection of free to use symbols and fills – the CSUAC
• Create desktop wallpapers with handy settings and template, with examples

Map-making articles

• Creating underground railway networks
• Cosmographer battlemaps video
• Isometric Map-Making