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 5 Content

• Map Pack: Mine Diorama
• Map Pack: Moe's Dive
• Style Pack: 1930s Street Maps
• Style Pack: 1930s Travel Guides
• Style Pack: Dungeon Symbols
• Style Pack: Jon Roberts Dungeons
• Style Pack: Jon Roberts Overland
• Style Pack: Military Operations
• Style Pack: Modern Roads and Street Maps
• Style Pack: Overland Perspectives
• Style Pack: Treasure Maps
• Style Pack: Vertical Dungeon Geomorphs
• Tool Pack: Climate Textures

Map Pack: Mine Diorama

A customizable mine diorama that you can print and assemble as you need. Created with Dioramas Pro, it also shows off many of that add-ons features without the need of actually owning it!

The style contains 14 A4/Letter pages of Dioroma goodness. Each of these can be customized on its own, and together they allow you to build almost any mine layout. The accompanying mapping guide gives hints and tips for customization and assembly.

The map pack Mine Diorama includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 2 new template wizards (Imperial and metric units)
• 2 new symbols
• 8 bitmap fills
• 32 new drawing tools
• 1 new effect setting
• 15 pages of example diorama parts
• 15 pages of blank diorama parts
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Map Pack: Moe's Dive

A detailed floorplan and a street map of a versatile adventure location: the seedy bar/tavern/dive located on one of the town's disreputable streets. It can be used for both fantasy and modern settings.

The included street map shows the immediate neighbourhood of the dive and uses an amalgam of Dungeon Designer and City Designer features to create a street map suitable for use with miniatures. The accompanying template makes creating your own composite street maps painless.

The map pack Moe's Dive includes:

• 2 new template wizard (imperial and metric units)
• 1 detailed floorplan of the tavern/bar/dive including surrounding sewers (FCW, PNG and PDF versions).
• 1 detailed street map of the establishments immediate neighbourhood (FCW, PNG and PDF versions).
• 1 4-page sheets and effects guide
• 2 new effect settings

Style Pack: 1930s Street Maps

A companion style to April's 1930s floorplans: city maps in the same Baedeker travel guide style for your modern horror and pulp-style games.

Metric and Imperial templates, new tools, hatch styles and symbols, as well as a mapping guide let you create beautiful period-style handouts for your players.

The style pack 1930s Street Maps includes:

• 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
• 1 new drawing styles with 35 new drawing tools
• 2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
• 4 new hatch styles
• 1 new symbol catalog containing 6 new scale bars
• 1 3-page mapping guide
• 2 new effect settings

Style Pack: 1930s Travel Guides

A floorplan drawing style inspired by 1930s travel guides. It's perfectly suited for modern horror and pulp-style games.

New symbols, drawing tools, templates and a full mapping guide make it possible to create those perfect handouts for your players.

The style pack 1930s Travel Guides includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 2 new template wizards
• 40 new symbols
• 46 new drawing tools
• 2 new hatch styles
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 example map
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Dungeon Symbols

A huge collection (more than 1500) of new symbols for use with Dungeon Designer 3 or Symbol Set 2 dungeon maps. Painstakingly created in POV-Ray and then rendered as high-detail png symbols (by CC3 community member Joachim de Ravenbel), they offer many more options for your dungeon maps and floorplans.

The symbols cover new temple and magical colums, pillars, library stacks, shelves, books, alchemical instruments, laboratory equipment, cobwebs, trees, bushes and many more things besides. Two beautiful example floorplans show how the symbols can be used.

The symbol pack Dungeons includes:

• More than 1500 new high-detail png symbols organized in 6 new catalogs
• Two high-detail example maps, in FCW, PDF and PNG formats
• A symbol guide and PDF reference sheet for the included symbols

Style Pack: Jon Roberts Dungeons

A new drawing style from master cartographer Jon Roberts. This time he goes for dungeon maps with his beautiful artwork.

This drawing style brings you a full set of dungeon symbols together with beautiful textures to create your own dungeon maps. Imperial and metric templates as well as a comprehensive mapping guide make creating miniature scale maps a breeze.

The style pack Jon Roberts Dungeons includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 2 new template wizards
• 149 new bitmap symbols
• 41 new bitmap textures
• 176 new drawing tools
• 2 new effect settings
• 2 example maps (fcw and png format)
• 1 new true type font
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Jon Roberts Overland

A complete new overland style created by fantasy cartographer Jonathan Roberts specifically for CC3.

Jonathan's evocative style comes alive for CC3 users with a full selection of overland symbols and background textures, organized as always in an easy-to-use CC3 drawing style. The included mapping guide teaches you how to best create maps in this style.

The style pack Jonathan Roberts includes:

• 1 new overland drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 90 new bitmap symbols in 6 new catalogs
• 18 new bitmap fill styles
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 example map in fcw and png format

Style Pack: Military Operations

A new style based on the maps of the World War 2 Interactive Atlas, suitable for all kinds of modern and near future military operations. Its tools are also useful for all kinds of maps depicting movement.

The four page mapping guide includes tips and tricks on exporting suitable contour maps from Fractal Terrains Pro, creating operational maps from scratch and converting World War 2 Interactive Atlas maps to the new CC3 look.

The style pack Military Operations includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new command dll
• 1 new template wizard
• 52 new drawing tools
• 2 new effect settings
• 30 new symbols in 1 catalog
• 2 Example Maps (FCW and PNG)
• 1 new CC2 to CC3 converter
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Modern Roads and Street Maps

A drawing style for creating modern road and city street maps, inspired by real-word maps of United States cities.

This drawing style can be used to create your own imaginary road maps (modern road network around Arkham anyone?), as well as detail city areas you need for your games.

The style pack Modern Road and Street Maps includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 2 new template wizards
• 13 new symbols
• 32 new drawing tools
• 2 new effect settings
• 1 example map
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Overland Perspectives

A new vector drawing style with a unique twist. It lets you create maps in a beautiful bird's eye view that makes the landscape stretch out before the viewer.

Based on a variation of the CC3 color overland vector symbols, the Overland Perspective style contains lots of unique templates and drawing tools and comes with an arsenal of tips and tricks to make varying the drawing scale across the map a simple process. The accompanying mapping guide takes you through the whole process of creating a map step by step.

The style pack Overland Perspectives includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 2 new fixed templates
• 2 example maps including png exports
• 40 new drawing tools
• More than 350 vector symbols in 7 symbol catalogs
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 5-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Treasure Maps

A new, local-scale overland style geared towards player handouts and treasure maps. Inspired by the archetypical map in Treasure Island drawn by Robert Louis Stevenson himself, it presents a beautiful illustrative style.

The accompanying mapping guide gives instructions on how to quickly generate such a map, making generating an urgent player handout for the next game session a snap.

The style pack Treasure Maps includes:

• 1 drawing style with 20 new drawing tools
• 1 new template wizard
• 3 new parchment background bitmap fills
• 38 new symbols in 6 catalogs
• 3 new hatch styles
• 1 3-page mapping guide
• 2 example maps (FCW and PNG)
• 1 new effect setting

Style Pack: Vertical Dungeon Geomorphs

A black and white drawing style for creating geomorph tiles of vertical dungeon cross-sections. The idea is based on work published on various roleplaying blogs concerning geormoph dungeons, especially Stonewerk's Blog.

Not only does the this style pack include nine pre-drawn geomorph tiles, it also provides you with the tools and a guide to create your own tiles quickly and easily.

The style pack Vertical Dungeon Geomorphs includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 9 new templates
• 22 new drawing tools
• 1 new effect settings
• 20 new symbols
• 4 new hatch styles
• 9 example geomorph tiles (FCW and PNG)
• 1 complete example dungeon map (FCW and PNG)
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Tool Pack: Climate Textures

17 seamlessly tiling bitmap textures created from real-world satellite photos let you both display FT3 worlds in a complete new look, as well as create a whole new style of climate maps in CC3. The mapping guide explains how to use the textures in either software.

The tool pack Climate Textures includes:

• 17 all-new bitmap textures of various climate types
• One set of Texture jpgs for use with FT3 textured climate shader
• One set of bitmap fill styles using these textures for use in CC3, including a fill style reference FCW for easy import into existing styles and maps
• 20 new drawing tools using these bitmap fills for easy insertion into any existing style
• 1 example CC3 maps (FCW and PNG format)
• 1 example FT3 world
• 1 3-page mapping guide