Cartographer's Annual 2024

Cartographer's Annual 2024 Content

14th Age Overland style

January

For the January issue of the Cartographer's Annual 2024 we reimagine the Fantasy Realms style by Allyn Bowker from 2009. We add lots of symbols and combine the tools with textures by Mike Schley.


13th Age Revisited  style

The result is a very different look, that is still excellent for displaying local to regional maps of any Fantasy setting.


The style pack Fantasy Realms Reimagined includes

  • 1 expanded and reimagined drawing style by Allyn Bowker
  • 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
  • 30 new drawing tools
  • 48 symbols in 6 catalogs
  • 16 bitmap fill styles
  • 1 5-page mapping guide
  • 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)
Desert Oasis

February

In February the Cartographer's Annual 2024 gives you a new overland map style using many beautiful mountain symbols by Robert Altbauer and parchment textures.


Book of Maps 2

The style excels at depicting large scale world and contintental maps, showing mountain ranges and other dominant geographical features.


The style pack Parchment Worlds includes:

  • 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
  • 1 new overland drawing style
  • 41 new drawing tools
  • 133 symbols in 6 catalogs
  • 3 bitmap fill styles
  • 1 4-page mapping guide
  • 2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
  • 5 symbol fill settings
Sinister Sewers Example

March

For the March issue of the Annual 2024 Sue Daniel is back with a new dungeon style focussing on the smelly underside of cities: the sewers.


Sinister Sewers Example

Expect nasty sewage and dirty water textures, slimy tunnels and lots of symbols for things that may be found in these drainage tunnels.


The style pack Sinister Sewers includes

  • 1 new dungeon drawing style by Sue Daniel
  • 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
  • 24 new drawing tools
  • 144 new symbols in 8 catalogs
  • 15 new bitmap fill styles
  • 1 5-page mapping guide
  • 2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
Parchment City Example

April

In the April issue of the Annual 2024 we present a new city style by Pär Lindström. It is based on his freelance work on a 19th century map of Stockholm and other nordic cities.


Parchment City Example

The style "Parchment City" is set up to quickly assemble large cities on a per-block basis and then add detail for individual landmark buildings, all in a period-look of modern city maps.


The style pack Parchment City includes

  • 1 new city drawing style by Pär Lindström
  • 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
  • 29 new drawing tools
  • 65 new symbols in 3 catalogs
  • 6 new bitmap fill styles
  • 2 new effect setting
  • 4 new house settings
  • 1 4-page mapping guide
  • 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)
Stair Example 1

May

The May issue of the Annual 2024 presents a tool pack for drawing extendible and variable stairs on dungeons and floorplans. No longer limited by symbols of fixed length and direction, the included drawing tools greatly expand your options.


Stair Example 2

More than a hundred new drawing tools add functionality to popular dungeons styles (DD3 Dungeon, Jon Roberts Dungeon and Dungeons of Schley), but can also be added and used in any other dungeon style. The accompanying mapping guides teaches you how to use and edit the tools, as well a how to set up your own.


The tool pack Stairs and Steps includes

  • 104 new drawing tools in 3 dungeon drawing styles
  • 50 new symbols in 1 catalog
  • 40 new Symbols Along settings
  • 3 new catalog settings
  • 1 7-page mapping guide
  • 3 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
Ancient Cities Example

June

In the June issue of the Annual 2024 new contributor C.C. Charon delivers a new city style aimed at mapping cities of the ancient world.


Ancient Cities Example

The style "Ancient Cities" adds new symbols and many new drawing tools, and utilizes CD3 bitmap fills along with detailed effect settings to create a unique new look.


The style pack Ancient Cities includes

  • 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
  • 1 new city drawing style by C.C. Charon
  • 61 new drawing tools
  • 22 new symbols
  • 19 bitmap fill styles
  • 2 new effect setting
  • 12 new house and street settings
  • 1 4-page mapping guide
  • 2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
Watabou City Revised Example

July

This month community veteran Quenten Walker revisits the Watabou Cities tool pack and style. The style referenced the Watabou online random village, town and city generator and leveraged it to create city maps in CC3+.


Watabou City Revised Example

Since its inception, the Watabou map generator has been changed and developed further. Quenten has taken it on himself to revise the style to take the changes into account and expand it to offer more tools and options.


The style pack Watabou City Revised includes

  • 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
  • 1 revised and expanded city drawing style by Quenten Walker
  • 97 new drawing tools
  • 80 bitmap fill styles
  • 2 new effect setting
  • 1 12-page mapping guide and tutorial
  • 2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
Sarah Wroot Revisited Example

August

The August issue of the Annual 2024 brings you a revamped and refreshed overland mapping style by Sarah Wroot, one of the earliest fantasy cartographers who contributed to Campaign Cartographer.


Sarah Wroot Revisited Example

Sarah's style "Sarah Wroot Revisited" takes beautiful hand-crafted line symbols and combines them with watercolor style backgrounds to create a wonderful artistic result. It combines easily with the hand-drawn style from Symbol Set 1 - Fantasy Overland (also created by Sarah Wroot) for a much wider variety of symbols.


The style pack Sarah Wroot Revisited includes

  • 1 overland drawing style "Sarah Wroot Revisited"
  • 28 drawing tools
  • 2 templates (imperial and metric)
  • 8 bitmap fills
  • 214 vector symbols in 7 catalogs
  • 1 6-page mapping guide
  • 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)
  • 1 effect setting
A World of Monthly Symbols 1

September

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.


A World of Monthly Symbols 1

The Annual 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 map pack A World of Monthly Symbols includes

  • 1 large-scale world map using Mike Schley overland symbols, regular and monthly (FCW and JPG format)
  • 17 sub section exports, highlighting individual monthly symbol sets
  • 17 symbol catalog reference drawings (FCW)
  • 1 symbol catalog reference file (PDF)
  • 1 10-page mapping guide , showcasing and listing the monthly symbol sets
Sticky Note Dungeon Example 1

October

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.


Sticky Note Dungeon Example 2

120 hand-drawn bitmap symbols, 18 drawing tools and 7 bitmaps styles combine in the Sticky Notes Dungeon style to allow you paste together charming dungeon designs within minutes.


The style pack Monkey Frog Overland 2 includes

  • 2 new template wizards (portrait and landscape)
  • 1 new drawing style by CC Charon
  • 18 drawing tools
  • 120 new symbols in 11 catalogs
  • 7 bitmap fill styles
  • 1 new effect setting
  • 1 3-page mapping guide
  • 2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)

Further ahead

To be announced.

This is our 18th annual and many of our customers have repeatedly subscribed from the beginning. Every year we balance the content so that the Cartographer's Annual is excellent value no matter how you use CC3+.

Delivery

The annual comes in twelve issues, delivered by download. To access the downloads, subscribe for the year and then add the serial number you receive to your ProFantasy registration. All available issues are immediately downloadable.

At the end of the year we roll the twelve issues into a single downloadable volume, also available from your registration.