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All the Annuals: Woodcut Maps (July 2016)

(Download the FCW file) Happy new month, mappers! This month’s All the Annuals has me giddy. I LOVE this map I’ve created. Yes, I said it. I just love it. It might be a bit busy, but it’s super close...

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Free Monthly – Ruined Towers

Once those walls are broken, the city has been plundered and the attackers have moved on, what do you get? Ruins of course. Monsters will settle there, amass their own hoards and then adventurers come...

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Maps of the Month: October 2023

Welcome to our latest tour de force through some of the wonderful maps created by the ProFantasy user community. Let’s take a look at the bountiful crop of cartography from the the ProFantasy forum and...

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Latest Live Mapping Videos

Here is the latest list of live mapping videos we’ve done on our YouTube channel.

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Random Dungeon Generator for CC3+

Behind the scenes we’ve been working on a new feature for Campaign Cartographer: a random generator that allows you to generate complete maps by just a few clicks. This version is a taster of what...

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The Cartographer’s Vault Humble Bundle

We’ve released a new collection with Humble Bundle, quite different to the others we’ve done, which were mainly collections of our products. This one is a treasure trove of maps, in high resolution...

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November 2023: Random Dungeons, Cities under Siege and a Humble Bundle

News We are currently running the Cartographer’s Vault campaign on Humble Bundle with lots of wonderful maps by community mappers and professional map-makers. A new Random Dungeon command is available...

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Practical use of your maps – Measure Distances

CC3+ maps are more than just pretty illustrations of the area your players happen to adventure in. If you like to keep track of time passing in your game (or your novella) you need to know how long it...

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December 2023 Annual: Wilderness Tiles

The December 2023 Annual issue presents a set of templates, tools, and instructions to create a basically unlimited set of tiling wilderness maps that you can print or export for use in virtual...

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Free Monthly – Fire and Smoke

Perhaps it’s not a siege that is damaging your city, but a disaster like a great fire? And you want to show the conflagration as it is happening? Then these latest free fire and smoke symbols will come...

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Annual 2023 bonus issue and free download

Every year we make one of the Cartographer’s Annual issues available for free to give everyone a taste of the great mapping inside. This year we decided on the City Under Siege map pack from November,...

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Latest Live Mapping Videos

Here are the last of the live mapping videos for 2023. See you again next year on YouTube!

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All the Annuals: Scorching Sun (August 2016)

(Download the FCW file) Hello mappers! Welcome to this month’s All the Annuals, Scorching Sun. This overland set is fantastic. I love the color palette with this set. What’s also great about TJ’s...

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Cartographer’s Annual 2024 Subscription available

The Cartographer’s Annual subscription for 2024 is now available, and you can subscribe at a reduced cost. If you are a current subscriber, be sure to check your email, as you should have received your...

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Maps of the Month: November 2023

Before the year runs out let’s take a relaxed look back at all the lovely mapping that the community shared in November. Without further ado, here are the Maps of the Month! Matt Finch‘s lovely ruin of...

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December 2023: Wilderness, a New Annual Year and Burning Ruins

News Both the December issue and bonus issue of the of the Cartographer’s Annual 2023 are available, bringing you a large selection of modular Wilderness tiles as well as the tools to create more...

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Rails & Trains – Part 3

A few months ago, I started the Rails & Trains mini-series of articles. In the two prior installments (part 1 – part 2), we looked at how to make the tracks themselves, now it is time to round it...

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January 2024 Annual: Fantasy Realms Reimagined

Welcome to 2024 and a new year of mapping goodness with the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 18. We are starting the year with a reimagination of an older style: Fantasy Realms by Allyn Bowker. As the...

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The Cartographer’s Annual Vol 17 – Complete Setup Available

Last year’s Cartographer’s Annual – Volume 17 – is now available as a complete setup, all monthly issues collected into one single package. Subscribers who downloaded all the monthly issues don’t need...

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Free Monthly – Fires of the Earth

The monthly symbols by Mike Schley have been very popular and of course we continue this tradition into the new year. From the isometric city symbols we return to artwork for overland maps for a while,...

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