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 17 Content

• Style Pack: 13th Age Overland Revisited
• Style Pack: Desert Oasis
• Style Pack: Winter Trail
• Style Pack: E Prybylski Watercolour
• Map Pack: City Block
• Symbol Pack: Steampunk Streets
• Style Pack: Monkey Frog Overland
• Style Pack: Inked Ruins
• Style Pack: E Prybylski Watercolour 2
• Style Pack: Monkey Frog Overland 2
• Map Pack: City Under Siege
• Tool Pack: Winlderness Tiles

Style Pack: 13th Age Overland Revisited

The iconic style by Lee Moyer is expanded significantly with more than double the number of symbols and and more bitmap fills than it previously had. It is also updated with the latest sheet effects and symbol placement drawing tools.

The style pack 13th Age Revisited includes:

• 1 expanded and recreated drawing style "13th Age Revisited" by Lee Moyer
• 68 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 38 bitmap fills
• 139 bitmap and vector symbols in 8 catalogs
• 6-page mapping guide
• Example map (FCW and JPG format)
• 1 effects setting

Style Pack:Desert Oasis

Pär Lindström has created this new town and village style. It lets you draw beautiful oasis settlements with serene palm trees lining refreshing pools of water in Pär's iconic handdrawn style.

The style's symbols buildings, tents, trees, wells and pools, along with ancient and mysterious ruins of civilizations long vanished under the sands of the desert.

Style pack Desert Oasis includes:

• 1 new city drawing style "Desert Oasis" by Pär Lindström
• 73 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 17 new bitmap fills
• 150 bitmap symbols in 6 catalogs
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)
• 2 effect settings
• 2 new city street settings
• 2 new city house setting

Style Pack: Winter Trail

Sue Daniel is back with a glorious new battle map style for those wintry excursions. See how her previous forest paths (Volume 16) turn into new winter trails.

Compatible with Sue's Forest Trail style from Volume 16 , Winter Trails contains everything you need to draw snow-covered outdoor maps for those encounters in the woods.

Style pack Winter Trail includes:

• 1 new drawing style "Winter Trail" by Sue Daniel
• 25 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 6 new bitmap fills
• 153 bitmap symbols in 7 catalogs
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 3 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
• 2 effect settings

Style Pack: E Prybylski Watercolour

The beautiful watercolour artwork of new contributor E. Prybylski is transformed into high-quality digital assets, enabling you to produce maps in a unique and visually striking style.

The E Prybylski Watercolour style is easy and fast to use, but doesn't compromise on the beauty of the results. Beginning mappers will find it just as rewarding as the veterans.

You can find more of E. Prybylski's work on their page here.

Style Pack E Prybylski Watercolour includes:

• 1 new Overland drawing style by E. Prybylski
• 36 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 11 new bitmap fills
• 234 bitmap symbols in 7 catalogs
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
• 9 new Symbols In Area settings

Map Pack: City Block

Map Pack City Block, by new contributor Jimmy Medina, provides highly detailed floorplans covering an entire city block of buildings.

It includes floorplans for eight different buildings, each mapped across four distinct levels, along with a 10-page mapping guide packed with practical advice and adventure ideas to help you put the maps straight into play.

Map Pack City Block includes:

• 1 new floorplan map pack "City Block" by Jimmy Medina
• 4 new floorplan maps, depicting 8 buildings with 4 levels each
• 8 PNG exports (with labels and no labels)
• 1 10-page mapping guide

Symbols Pack: Steampunk Streets

The Symbols Pack: Steampunk Streets issue of Volume 17 contains a brand-new set of steampunk symbols by Jon C Munson, including trains, tracks, vehicles, and a wide range of strange and wonderful machinery.

Designed to match Mike’s Dungeons of Schley style from Symbol Set 4, the Steampunk Streets symbols can also be used with any other floorplan style, adding a distinctive touch of weird science and steam technology to your maps.

Symbols Pack Steampunk Streets includes:

• 198 new steampunk-themed symbols by Jon C Munson II in 5 catalogs
• 1 new drawing style "Steampunk Streets" based on SS4 Dungeons of Schley
• 2 new dungeon templates "Steampunk Streets" (imperial and metric)
• 8 new drawing tools
• 2 new effect settings
• 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)
• 1 5-page mapping guide

Style Pack Monkey Frog Overland

The Monkey Frog Overland introduces another overland mapping style from a new contributor, a href="https://monkeyfrogstudio.artstation.com/">Monkey Frog Studio.

The style is built around beautiful symbol artwork combined with a bold, cohesive colour scheme, making it ideal for regional or continental-scale maps. A second issue later in the year expands this style with additional symbol options.

Style Pack Monkey Frog Overland includes:

• 1 new Overland drawing style "Monkey Frog Overland"
• 32 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 4 new bitmap fills
• 213 bitmap symbols in 7 catalogs
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)
• 6 new Symbols In Area settings
• 1 effect setting

Style Pack: Inked Ruins

With Inked Ruins, Volume 17 returns to visually simpler black-and-white mapping. This style lets you draw ruins, floorplans, and dungeons using faux-inked lines and clean, easy-to-read symbols.

Compatible with 2020’s Inked Dungeons, the Inked Ruins style is ideal for surface ruins and outdoor areas that print cleanly and remain highly readable even at smaller output sizes.

Style Pack Inked Ruins includes:

• 1 new dungeon drawing style
• 48 drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 98 vector symbols in 7 catalogs
• 9 hatch styles
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 new master filter
• 16 new symbol catalog settings

Style Pack: E Prybylski Watercolour 2

E Prybylski Overland 2 expands the E Prybylski Watercolor style with an additional 50 symbols, including non-human settlements, more mountain artwork, and other scenic elements.

The accompanying mapping guide explores the new symbols in detail and outlines additional techniques for decorating and enhancing your maps.

Style Pack E Prybylski Watercolor 2 includes:

• 48 new bitmap symbols in 4 catalogs
• 4 new drawing tools
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)

Style Pack Monkey Frog Overland 2

Monkey Frog Overland 2 expands the Monkey Frog Overland style with a large collection of structure symbols and new terrain fills.

Ninety-five detailed bitmap symbols, ranging from huts and campfires to castles and walled cities, allow you to properly populate your Monkey Frog overland maps. New terrain fills provide even more flexibility when shaping the natural landscape.

Style Pack Monkey Frog Overland 2 includes:

• 1 expanded overland drawing style by Monkey Frog Studio
• 7 new drawing tools
• 2 updated templates (imperial and metric)
• 7 new bitmap fills
• 95 bitmap symbols
• 1 3-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (FCW and JPG format)

Map Pack: City Under Siege

City Under Siege delivers a massive city map in the SS6 Isometric Cities style, depicting a coastal city under siege. Additional tools for Symbol Set 6 help you draw ridges and cliffs in perspective.

A 13-page guide accompanies the map, describing the city in detail, highlighting key locations, and suggesting adventure ideas. Even without owning Symbol Set 6, you can use the map in CC3+ and access it in PDF and PNG formats.

Map Pack City Under Siege includes:

• 1 large city map in the SS6 Isometric Cities style
• 5 large-scale PNG exports of the city map
• PDF collection of the map and detail views plus the city index
• 1 13-page pdf mapping guide to the city and the new tools included

This pack is available as a free issue and can be used by anyone with Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus (Symbol Set 6 is recommended). You can download it individually from this link.

Tool Pack: Winlderness Tiles

Wilderness Tiles presents a powerful set of templates, tools, and instructions for creating an effectively unlimited range of tiling wilderness maps, suitable for print or virtual tabletop use.

This tool pack also includes a collection of pre-constructed tiles ready for immediate use. The accompanying 6-page mapping guide explains how to create many more tiles using Sue Daniel’s Forest Trail style.

Tool Pack Wilderness Tiles includes:

• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 15 new drawing tools
• 24 Wilderness Tiles (Symbols, FCW and JPG Format, gridded and ungridded)
• 1 6-page mapping guide
• 4 example maps (FCW and JPG format)

Bonus: More Wilderness

As usual, Volume 17 concludes with a bonus issue, City Under Siege having been made available for free.

More Wilderness expands on the Wilderness Tiles pack, adding additional pre-constructed tiles and a new style that makes assembling large wilderness maps in CC3+ quick and straightforward. Twenty new pre-constructed tiles depict small wilderness scenes such as clearings, dense woods, a majestic tree, and a stone circle. Additional cliff and stream tiles add more variation. The concise 3-page mapping guide focuses on practical use, as tile assembly is intentionally simple.

Tool Pack More Wilderness includes:

• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 20 Wilderness Tiles (Symbols, FCW and JPG Format, gridded and ungridded)
• 1 3-page mapping guide
• 4 example maps (FCW format)