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 8 Content

• Map Pack: Krom's Village Diorama
• Map Pack: Monsters and Heroes
• Map Pack: Village Barn
• Style Pack: Alyssa Faden Overland
• Style Pack: Black and White Battlemaps
• Style Pack: Havenland
• Style Pack: Modern Journeys
• Style Pack: Volcanic Islands
• Style Pack: World War 2 Area Maps
• Style Pack: Worthington Historical
• Symbols Pack: Dwarven Dungeons
• Template Pack: Map Projections
• Tutorial Pack: Real-world Vector Data

Map Pack: Krom's Village Diorama

This pack brings two awe-inspiring members of the ProFantasy community together: Old Krom and Joachim de Ravenbel. They teamed up to create a complete Dioramas paper-model village, which a huge number of new bitmap fills and symbols, plus the template and tools to create your own buildings.

Seven beautiful buildings, hundreds of detailed symbols, dozen of tools and bitmap fills - the list of material in this issue is amazing. And Joachim takes you through both assembling a building and constructing a new one in the 17-page mapping guide.

The map pack Krom's Village Diorama includes:

• 1 complete, ready-to-build paper model village with 7 buildings (PDF and FCW format)
• 1 new drawing style with 58 drawing tools
• 1 new template
• 645 new symbols in 5 catalogs
• 55 new bitmap fills
• 1 10-page assembly
• 1 9-page mapping guide

Map Pack: Monsters and Heroes

Pre-assembled paper figures to use in your games. Created with the new Character Artist 3 add-on, a selection of generic heroes is opposed by a wealth of stock monsters. Ready for print and play, the sheets are simple to cut out and assemble.

While Character Artist 3 is not necessary to enjoy this issue, it also contains the CA3 source files. So if you own the add-on, you can quickly create even more variations of the included heroes and monsters.

The map pack Monster and Heroes includes:

• 12 iconic fantasy heroes as portraits and paper standees (FCW, PNG and PDF format)
• 36 fantasy monster as portraits and paper standes (FCW, PNG and PDF format)
• 1 5-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Village Barn

Freely downloadable for anyone, Joachim de Ravenbel created this beautiful village barn model with the resources of the December issue.

This model is great as an extension to the Krom Village set or can be used - if you are so inclined - as a wonderful setting for a nativity scene.

The map pack Village Barn includes:

• 1 complete, ready-to-build paper model village barn (PDF format)
• 1 10-page assembly guide

Style Pack: Alyssa Faden Overland

Have you seen Alyssa Faden's beautiful maps around the web? We are pretty sure you have and are glad to see her artwork in the Cartographer's Annual. She created a beautiful overland style for us, which you can use for your own maps with the November issue.

With more than 250 hand-crafted bitmap symbols, including Alyssa's signature clouds, 40 drawing tools and 16 new textures, the Alyssa Faden Overland style gives you everything you need for gorgeous maps of your own. Of course a 6-page mapping guide takes your through the steps of using the style.

The style pack Alyssa Faden Overland includes:

• 1 new drawing style with 40 drawing tools
• 2 new templates (metric and imperial)
• 269 new bitmap symbols in 9 catalogs
• 16 new bitmap fills
• 1 example map (FCW and PNG format)
• 3 new effect settings
• 1 new font
• 1 6-page sheet and effects guide

Style Pack: Black and White Battlemaps

An interesting new style development by Pär Lindström for creating quick black and white battlemaps for the table or a virtual tabletop interface.

In addition to containing individual symbols, the style provides the user with a lot of pre-assembled pieces like complete buildings, woods, pieces of road. All of these interlock and make creating a battle map a very quick and easy process.

The style pack Black and White Battlemaps includes:

• 1 new floorplan style by Pär Lindström
• 2 new template wizard (imperial and metric)
• 1 new drawing style with 38 drawing tools
• 103 new symbols in 6 catalogs
• 8 new bitmap textures
• 1 new effect texture
• 2 example maps
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 3-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Havenland

A beautiful overland style by a new contributing artist: Glynn Seal of MonkeyBlood Design. We became aware of his beautiful Havenland set of symbols for overland maps, and luckily Glynn was more than willing to create a set for the Annual.

The Havenland style is a full overland style with beautiful textures, mountain, tree and structure symbols. The accompanying mapping guide takes you through creating a complete map using all the style's features.

The style pack Havenland includes:

• 2 new template wizard (imperial and metric)
• 1 new drawing style with 42 drawing tools
• 115 new symbols in 6 catalogs
• 16 new bitmap textures
• 1 example map
• 1 Symbol reference file
• 3 new effect settings
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Modern Journeys

A beautiful style by Pär Lindström. Originally designed for the the adventure colletection "Mythos Expeditions" by Pelgrane Press, the style lets you depict the itinerary and visited locations for modern journeys or expeditions as would be found in many modern horror or pulp adventures.

Quick and easy to use the Modern Journeys style lets you whip up a gorgeously illustrated maps in minutes. Choose from 150 Symbols to depict your locations, show the travel routes and identify the mode of transportation used.

The style pack Modern Journeys includes:

• 1 4-page mapping guide/tutorial
• 1 new drawing style with 17 drawing tools
• 2 new templates (metric and imperial)
• 150 new bitmap symbols in 10 catalogs
• 4 new bitmap fills
• 2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
• 1 new font

Style Pack: Volcanic Islands

We ran a map-making competition open to any fantasy cartographer's (amateur or professional) out there. The theme was doing a volcanic island. The winner - as judged by Mike Schley from a great number of very nice submissions - was Christian Stiehl who graciously allowed us to turn his artwork into a Cartographer's Annual issue.

Christian's beautiful overland style is well-suited to creating regional maps of forests and rolling mountains. We hope you find it as gorgeous as we do!

The style pack Volcanic Islands includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 2 template wizards (metric and imperial)
• 80 new bitmap symbols in 5 catalogs
• 35 new drawing tools
• 12 new bitmap fills
• 1 example map (FCW, PNG)
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 2 new effect settings

Style Pack: World War 2 Area Maps

A style pack based on the artwork of Michal Cross. Michal created the beautiful WW2-era maps for the award-winning Achtung! Chutlu adventure line by Modiphius Entertainment.

The style pack World War 2 Area Maps contains all the templates and tools for you to create modern area maps in Michal's style. It also works nicely for steam or dieselpunk games. The included mapping guide also shows you how to use a real-world Google map as the basis of your own.

The style pack World War 2 Area Maps includes:

• 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
• 1 new drawing style with new 23 drawing tools
• 8 new symbols in 1 catalogs
• 12 new bitmap fill styles
• 2 Example map (FCW and PNG)
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 2 new effect settings
• 2 new true type fonts

Style Pack: Worthington Historical

Introducing a new contributor: Steph Worthington. We dubbed the style she created "Worthington Historical" as it is derived of her map of Arthurian Kent and is well suited for creating overview maps of historical or quasi-historical places.

The overland style "Worthington Historical" contains a wide variety of new bitmap textures and drawing tools, as well as a catalog of new symbols. A full mapping guide takes you through the process of creating a map in this style, including how to use a real-world map as the basis.

The style pack Worthington Historical includes:

• 1 new drawing style with 40 drawing tools
• 26 new symbols in 1 catalog
• 16 new bitmap terrain textures
• 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
• 2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
• 2 new effect settings
• 1 5-page mapping guide

Symbols Pack: Dwarven Dungeons

A two-in-one package: the Dwarven Dungeon artwork by TJ Vandel (aka Schwarzkreuz) works as its own drawing style, but is also designed to function as an extension to Symbol Set 4 - Dungeons of Schley.

A quick installer package will add all the styles resources to the existing SS4 dungeon style. Almost 200 symbols and 30 bitmap textures with a unique dwarven theme give you a lot of extra options when mapping those underground fastnesses among the Dungeons of Schley!

The symbols pack Dwarven Dungeons by TJ Vandel includes:

• 1 new drawing style with 54 drawing tools (Style by TJ Vandel)
• 2 new templates (metric and imperial)
• 190 new bitmap symbols in 13 catalogs
• 29 new bitmap fills
• 1 example map (FCW and PNG format)
• 1 new font
• 1 5-page sheet and effects guide

Template Pack: Map Projections

A look at the scientific foundations of map-making. Map projections are the different methods of how to approach the cartographer's paradox: how to depict the spherical surface of earth on a flat piece of paper (or computer screen).

This template pack with a variety of templates for different map projections, and the accompanying mapping guide discusses what you have to consider when choosing one. We'll also take Fractal Terrains 3 into account and how its map projection feature can be used to leverage even more options for CC3.

The template pack Map Projections includes:

• 24 new pre-defined templates for the CC3 Overland style (imperial and metric)
• 2 new pre-defined templates for the Annual Modern Atlas style (imperial and metric)
• 12 map projection grid parts (grid-only fcw files)
• 1 6-page mapping guide

Tutorial Pack: Real-world Vector Data

Resources and an extensive tutorial for importing real-world vector data from the Natural Earth public domain repository into CC3 overland maps.

The included mapping guide takes you through the process of downloading, prepraring, converting and importing the data for use in CC3. It also goes into detail on how to apply different drawing styles to the imported maps and how continue working after the initial import.

The tutorial pack Real-world Vector Data includes:

• 1 8-page mapping guide
• 12 universal drawing tools for quick conversion of imported entities
• 4 example maps
• 4 prepared data sets