Cartographer's Annual Vol 7
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 7 Content
- Expansion Pack: DeRust Overland
- Style Pack: 1930s Overland Maps
- Style Pack: Comic Book Maps
- Style Pack: DeRust Overland
- Style Pack: HighSpace Star Systems
- Style Pack: Investigation Props
- Style Pack: Midgard World
- Style Pack: Myrr Overland
- Style Pack: Overland CC3 Hex Maps
- Style Pack: Perspective Buildings
- Style Pack: Pär Lindström's Black and White Dungeons
- Style Pack: Pär Lindström's Black and White Overland
- Symbol and Tutorial Pack: Map Markers
Expansion Pack: DeRust Overland
Introducing a new contributor to CC3's mapping styles: TJ Vandel, or “Schwarzkreuz” as he is known on the Cartographer's Guild. His cartography has garnered many praises and awards on their forum.

Based on a gorgeous collection of more than 400 symbols of mountains, hills, and other natural features, the style allows you to create your own beautiful pieces of art. As usualy, the included mapping guide takes through the map creation step by step.
The style pack DeRust Overland includes:
- 1 new drawing style with 35 drawing tools
- 2 new template wizard (imperial and metric)
- 487 new symbols in 9 catalogs
- 29 new bitmap fills
- 2 new effect settings
- 2 Example Maps (FCW and PNG)
- 1 4-page mapping guide
Style Pack: 1930s Overland Maps

Another beautiful style inspired by travel guides of the 1930s. Excellently suited to period games, the style can be used to create great-looking handouts for your players. Perhaps you even want to hide a clue on the map?
The style is based on a number of bitmap textures combined with vector drawing tools and symbols. A 5-page mapping guide takes you through the map-creation process step-by-step.
The style pack 1930s Overland Maps includes:
- 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
- 84 new symbols in 6 catalogs
- 40 new drawing tools
- 6 new bitmap fill styles
- 1 Example map (FCW and PNG)
- 1 Map key part
- 1 5-page mapping guide
- 2 new effect settings
Style Pack: Comic Book Maps

A new vector overland drawing style for creating more whimsical, light-hearted maps. The simple but not simplistic style is easy to use and maps get quickly finished.
The art style is inspired by the work of illustrator James Stowe, especially his SidekickQuests web comic.
The style pack Comic Book Maps includes:
- 1 new drawing style including 31 new drawing tools
- 2 new template wizards (metric and imperial)
- 187 new vector symbols in 7 catalogs
- 2 new effect settings
- 2 example maps (fcw and png format)
- 1 new true type font
- 1 3-page mapping guide
Style Pack: DeRust Overland
Introducing a new contributor to CC3's mapping styles: TJ Vandel, or “Schwarzkreuz” as he is known on the Cartographer's Guild. His cartography has garnered many praises and awards on their forum.
Based on a gorgeous collection of more than 400 symbols of mountains, hills, and other natural features, the style allows you to create your own beautiful pieces of art. As usualy, the included mapping guide takes through the map creation step by step.
The style pack DeRust Overland includes:
- 1 new drawing style with 35 drawing tools
- 2 new template wizard (imperial and metric)
- 487 new symbols in 9 catalogs
- 29 new bitmap fills
- 2 new effect settings
- 2 Example Maps (FCW and PNG)
- 1 4-page mapping guide
Style Pack: HighSpace Star Systems

Introducing the HighSpace Star System style, based on the bitmap artwork of Storyweaver Games for the High Space game line. Create gorgeous star system charts with stunning backdrops based on actual deep space imagery.
Almost two hundred symbols and two dozen blazing star backdrops are available to create your systems charts. The included mapping guide takes you through the process of creating such a star system chart.
The style pack HighSpace Star Systems includes:
- 1 new drawing style with 15 drawing tools
- 2 new template wizards (portrait and landscape)
- 191 new bitmap symbols
- 24 new bitmap background fills
- 2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
- 1 new effect setting
- 1 4-page mapping guide
Style Pack: Investigation Props
A style pack that can be used for a multitude of games: the Investigation Props. Be it your classic Cthulhu campaign set in 1920s and 30s, games set in even more recent times like Night's Black Agents and Delta Green, or sci-fi settings like Ashen Stars - the pack contains the tools to create handouts, charts and other props for any of these.
The style pack contains templates for cork and white boards, symbols for photograph overlays, computer readouts, file cards and sticky notes, as well as drawing tools for marker scribblings, connecting arrows and the like.
The style pack Investigation Props includes:
- 3 template wizards (Corkboard, Whiteboard, Computer Readout)
- 1 new drawing style
- 26 new drawing tools
- 32 new symbols
- 8 bitmap fill styles
- 3 Example maps (FCW, PNG)
- 1 5-page mapping guide
- 3 new effect settings
- 4 true type fonts
Style Pack: Midgard World
A gorgeous new CC3 style by fantasy cartographer Jonathan Roberts. It is based on his world map for the Midgard campaign setting by Kobold Press.

Jonathan's beautiful map style is compatible with the overland style he created for the Cartographer's Annual Vol 5, but also fully self-contained. Combining both will increase the range of symbols and textures you can use enormously.
The style pack Midgard World includes:
- 1 new drawing style
- 2 template wizards (metric and imperial)
- 156 new bitmap symbols in 7 catalogs
- 43 new drawing tools
- 17 new bitmap fills
- 1 example map (FCW, PNG)
- 1 example coast outline (Midgard World)
- 1 5-page sheets and effects guide
- 1 new effect setting
Style Pack: Myrr Overland

A gorgeous new style created by one of our community members. Flavio (anomiecoalition) came up with a brilliant way to depict mountain ranges in his Myrr map, and we asked the community whether they wanted to see this as complete style in the Annual. They emphatically said "Yes!"
Flavio was happy to let us have the map. So we set out to create a new overland style from it, complete with a new set of bitmap fills and sheet effects set up to let users easily recreate Flavio's shaded mountain ridges.
The style pack Myrr Overland includes:
- 1 drawing style
- 2 template wizards (metric and imperial)
- 27 drawing tools
- 18 bitmap fills
- 3 effect textures
- 8 symbols
- 1 example map (FCW, PNG)
- 1 6-page sheets and effects guide
- 1 effect setting
- 1 true type font
Style Pack: Overland CC3 Hex Maps

We are going back to roots with this style pack, both in terms of CC3 and maps for role-playing games. The pack presents a re-working of the standard CC3 overland style into symbols and tools for hex mapping.
The Overland CC3 Hex style gives you the symbols and tools to create traditional hex maps quickly and easily. The accompanying mapping guide takes you through the simple process and shows you how to integrate existing CC3 symbols into its hex maps.
The style pack Overland CC3 Hex includes:
- 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
- 53 new hex symbols
- 55 updated drawing tools
- 8 updated CC3 symbol catalogs
- 2 Example maps (FCW and PNG)
- 1 5-page mapping guide
- 1 new effect setting
Style Pack: Perspective Buildings
A drawing style for creating isometric views of buildings. Elaborating on the tools included in Perspectives Pro, the style can also be used on its own.

This style pack contains a large amount of hatch styles and drawing tools that can be used not only in this kind of map, but also in vector dungeon and other building floorplans.
The style pack Perspective Buildings includes:
- 1 new drawing style
- 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
- 28 new hatch styles
- 55 of new drawing tools
- 18 new Perspectives Pro house and general settings
- 1 new effect setting
- 2 example maps (FCW and PNG)
- 1 5-page mapping guide
Style Pack: Pär Lindström's Black and White Dungeons
Another beautiful black and white style by Pär Lindström. This one provides all the tools for floorplan and dungeon maps.

Almost a hundred new bitmap symbols, new textures and more than fifty drawing tools are at your disposal. Together with the included mapping guide, they make creating great-looking dungeon maps a breeze.
The style pack Pär Lindström's Black and White Dungeons includes:
- 1 new drawing style with 51 drawing tools
- 97 new bitmap symbols in 12 catalogs
- 18 new bitmap terrain textures
- 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
- 2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
- 1 new effect setting
- 1 4-page mapping guide
Style Pack: Pär Lindström's Black and White Overland

Another treat by Pär Lindström who already contributed two great styles to the Cartographer's Annual: The Fantasy Worlds style and Pär Lindström Regional. This time it is a beautiful black & white illustrative style, inspired by (among others) the classic Middle-earth maps of Christopher Tolkien.
The bitmap style contains some a wide selection of mountains and trees, as well gorgeous artwork of sea monsters to highlight your uncharted seas and oceans.
The style pack Pär Lindström Black and White includes:
- 1 new drawing style with 40 drawaing tools
- 86 new bitmap symbols in 6 catalogs
- 5 new bitmap terrain textures
- 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
- 2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
- 2 new effect settings
- 1 4-page mapping guide
Symbol and Tutorial Pack: Map Markers
A large set of new vector symbols for marking hyperlinks, notes and special locations on any map.
To complement these symbols, the included mapping guide contains a series of symbol tutorials that covers a wide range of topics, from creating vector and bitmaps symbols to setting up symbols with Hyperlinks, and assigning a set of symbols their own sheet effects.
The symbol and tutorial pack Map Markers includes:
- 101 new symbols in 1 catalog
- 1 new template wizard
- 1 updated drawing style with 24 new drawing tools
- 1 example map inluding example text note
- 1 Symbol reference file
- 1 5-page mapping guide