Cartographer's Annuals

Cartographer's Annuals are collections of premium creative content to expand your map-making horizons.

Each volume delivers a diverse array of material, including new drawing styles, unique symbol sets, curated map collections, and specialized tools for specific types of maps. Every Annual also icludes a comprehensive guide explaining the techniques used, helping you build skills and deepen your mapping mastery.

Volume 1 Content

• Map Collection: Cathedral
• Map Collection: Caves and Caverns
• Map Collection: Fantasy Tavern
• Map Collection: Panicale
• Mapping Guide: How to Create a Style Pack
• Style Pack: John Speed City Maps
• Style Pack: Mercator Historical Maps
• Style Pack: Modern City Maps
• Style Pack: Sarah Wroot Overland Maps
• Style Pack: Starship Deckplans
• Symbol Pack: Connecting Symbols
• Template Collection: Parchment & Paper

Map Collection: Cathedral

The floorplan of a Gothic cathedral done with Symbol Set 2 - Fantasy Floorplans. The highly detailed map showcases many different sheet effects for shadows and lighting.

These effects are listed and explained in detail in the accompanying sheet and effects guide. It will be immensely helpful to anyone applying sheets effects to floorplans drawn with Campaign Cartographer and its add-ons.

The map pack Gothic Cathedral includes:

• 4-page pdf Sheet and Effects Guide
• 1 Cathedral floorplan map (fcw, pdf and png format)
• 7 new drawing tools
• 4 new SS2A style symbols
• 1 new effect setting

Map Collection: Caves and Caverns

Templates, tools and symbols to create maps of caves and caverns ... in two different styles. One features Dungeon Designer 3 artwork, while the other is completely new and creates modern-type maps, including cut-away views.

Specialised templates and drawing tools make creating cave maps much quicker and easier, and the new symbols reproduce official cave mapping standards. A mapping guide gives detailed advice on how to draw realistic-looking caves and create matching side views of your tunnel systems.

The Map Pack collection Caves & Caverns includes:

• 1 pdf Mapping Guide
• Example maps (fcw and pdf format)
• New template wizards
• New templates
• New bitmap fills
• New symbols

Map Collection: Fantasy Tavern

A multi-level floorplan of the Tendril's Oak Inn done with the new Dungeon Designer 3 features and symbols. The Tendril's Oak Inn is a fully featured adventure location, ready to be plugged into your own role-playing campaign, complete with a set of believable NPCs and a collection of adventure hooks.

But the floorplan is more than a ready-to-print adventure map with accompanying game information. You also get a complete guide to the sheets and effects used in the Dungeon Designer 3 map, enabling you to make the most out of your own DD3 floorplans.

You do not need to own Dungeon Designer 3 to enjoy the maps; they are also available in pdf and png formats. The accompanying sheet and effects guide will give you lots of tips for the use of these features in CC3.

The map collection Tendril's Oak Inn includes:

• 4 highly-detailed, ready to print floorplans of the inn and its surroundings
• 1 7-page pdf Location Description including NPCs
• 1 5-page Sheets and Effects Guide to the maps
• 4 pdf versions of the floorplans
• 2 new bitmap fills

Map Collection: Panicale

A fully mapped town in ProFantasy's Source Maps style, complete with historical information, NPCs and adventure material. And of course it includes a style guide on how to create this kind of map yourself.

The town included is Panicale, a breath-taking Italian settlement perched on a mountain top, with its medieval character almost perfectly preserved. The historical background included will give you glimpse the politics and intrigues of the Italian city-states.

The Map Collection Panicale includes:

• Detailed 2d and 3d (isometric) maps of the town.
• Historical background information
• Adventure ideas, plot hooks for the location
• NPCs with game stats for 3 systems (d20, Chimera RPG, Savage Worlds)
• Mapping Guide to producing 2d and 3d city maps
• 1 new template wizard
• 45 city drawing tools

Mapping Guide: How to Create a Style Pack

A breakdown of the complete process of creating a new drawing style, from choosing a style to emulate, to creating templates, symbols and drawing tools. As an example we will recreate old-school dungeon maps from some of the very first role-playing adventures.

Joe Bardales created a varicolor version of the simple Dungeon Catalog included with Dungeon Designer to match the example style.

The Mapping Guide Create a Style Pack includes:

• 5-page pdf guide to creating your own mapping styles
• Example style-pack "Old-school Dungeon Maps"
• 1 template wizard
• 2 example maps (fcw, pdf and png format)
• 2 new symbol catalogs
• 40 new dungeon symbols

Style Pack: John Speed City Maps

Emulate the famous town and city maps of British cartographer John Speed (1542-1629). As a historian trying to document the settlement of his homeland, he was the first to map many of the British isles' counties and towns and his legacy endures today in a large number of beautiful prints.

The style pack will enable you create beautiful black-and-white maps of any type of settlement, that capture the flair and detail of John Speed's cartographic work. Quick and ink-saving to print, the maps will make gorgeous handouts for your players or both artistic and informative illustrations for your game supplements.

The style pack John Speed City includes:

• 1 pdf Mapping Guide
• 2 example maps plus 8 intermediate guide example steps
• 146 symbols (split over 6 catalogs and many containing 4 different directional versions of the same symbol)
• 28 drawing tools
• 1 effect settings
• 6 templates
• 1 template wizard
• 1 true type font

Style Pack: Mercator Historical Maps

For a time the principal center of map making and map printing was in the Netherlands. Gerard Mercator is the most famous of those cartographers and therefore this map style is named in his honor. The Flemish mathematician, printer and mapmaker (born 1512, died 1592) compiled the first modern world atlas (titled "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum") and invented the map projection that still bears his name today.

This style pack Mercator includes:

• 1 pdf Mapping Guide
• 3 example maps plus 6 intermediate guide example steps
• 33 symbols (split over 7 catalogs to accomodate the catalog icons)
• 25 drawing tools
• 28 new bitmaps
• 2 effect settings
• 8 templates
• 1 template wizard
• 1 true type font
• 1 Mercator master filter and 7 symbol settings

Style Pack: Modern City Maps

Two styles to draw modern type city plans in CC3. One is reminiscent of 18th to 19th century maps, while the second creates the look of contemporary street maps. The former style was pioneered in Campaign Cartographer by Master Mapper Allyn Bowker. Many thanks for the inspiration, Allyn!

A detailed mapping guide explains how to create maps in the two included styles, and will be generally useful for anyone drawing city maps of his or her own.

The style pack Modern City Maps includes:

• 4-page pdf Mapping Guide
• 2 example maps (fcw, pdf and png format)
• 2 template wizards
• 4 templates
• 2 new styles
• 44 new drawing tools
• 35 new symbols (2 catalogs)
• 2 new effect settings

Style Pack: Sarah Wroot Overland Maps

Have the gorgeous mapping style of cartographer and illustrator Sarah Wroot at your fingertips. You can see examples of her work on the web and in several RPG publications.

The Sarah Wroot style produces beautiful illustrative maps with colorful shading and finely detailed lines. Because Sarah has previously created some of the artwork for ProFantasy Symbol Sets, those symbols blend in perfectly with this style and increase your options manifold.

The style pack Sarah Wroot Overland includes:

• 1 pdf Mapping Guide
• 3 example maps plus 6 intermediate guide example steps
• 56 symbols (split over 7 catalogs to accomodate the catalog icons)
• 26 drawing tools
• 24 new bitmaps
• 1 effect setting
• 5 templates
• 1 template wizard
• 1 true type font
• 1 Sarah Wroot master filter and 7 symbol settings

Style Pack: Starship Deckplans

Templates, tools and symbols to draw starship deckplans for science-fiction games. Independent of Cosmographer Pro, it allows the sci-fi add-on's symbols to be used in its style for additional detail and effect.

Using hatch styles and simple symbol and combining those with finely tuned sheet effects, the Annual Starship creates beautiful deckplans without resorting to bitmap fill styles. This means the maps don't rely on external files and can be freely and easily distributed to other users of CC3, whether they subscribe to the Cartographer's Annual or not. A 5-page mapping guide takes the reader through a tour of creating an example deckplan.

The style pack Starships Deckplans includes:

• 5-page pdf Mapping Guide
• 3 example maps (fcw, pdf and png format) - two starships and a customized starfield background
• 3 new template wizards
• 3 new templates
• 43 new drawing tools
• 10 new hatch styles
• 26 new symbols (2 catalogs)
• 3 new effect settings

Symbol Pack: Connecting Symbols

Templates and examples for a special type of symbol: Connecting catalogs that allow you to create stretches of symbols like streams, wagon tracks, etc. almost as if you were using a drawing tool. First introduced with the release of Cosmographer Pro, this pack concentrates on using bitmaps and bitmap fills in these catalogs. It features a preview of the capabilities of upcoming City Designer 3.

The accompanying guide explains how to use the included CC3 and bitmap templates to create your own connecting symbols in whatever format you like: Vector, bitmap fills or full bitmap symbols.

The symbol pack Connecting Symbols includes:

• 5-page pdf guide to creating connecting symbols
• 6 connecting symbol catalogs
• 88 connecting symbols
• 3 connecting catalog templates
• 14 stream bitmaps
• 14 bitmap templates
• 2 example maps

Template Collection: Parchment & Paper

A selection of templates that will make your maps look like they've been drawn on ancient parchment or paper. Different bitmaps provide that certain textured look and a variety of different sheets, tools and symbols can be applied to make the background look freshly cut, tattered, torn, burned, stained, previously written on, or many other things.

The templates enable you to create beautiful player hand-outs for your games or illustrative maps for your own world and game publications. And if there's anything you're missing, the collection also includes detailed instructions how to use and customize the templates further.

The template collection Parchment & Paper includes:

• 1 pdf Mapping Guide
• 2 example maps (fcw and pdf format)
• 2 template wizards
• 30 templates
• 15 parchment bitmap fills
• 16 symbols