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Do you love old school overland maps like you might find in any good classic three-or-more-book fantasy series? Are you looking for a mapping style that combines CC3+-styling with ease of printing …

In this live mapping session I present the latest Cartographer's An...

The August Annual is here, ready to take you strange new worlds where alien flora grows in weird colors and shapes, making it abundantly clear that any visitors are not on Earth anymore. The style …

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Welcome dear cartographers to another round of maps of the month – back to the regular one month selection in June. That doesn’t mean we have an any less spectacular selection this month. Che…

Are you preparing to venture into the forbidding badlands, probably inhabitated only by ferocious monsters? You will need a map to navigate those, and the map will need symbols for buttes and mesas…

In this live mapping session I take a look at the Isometric Towns s...

You need some towering elders of the forest to stand out in your huge fantasy forests, or are you mapping the fungal caves of the sunless lands underneath? This month’s free symbols give your…

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A Retrospective by Ralf Schemmann The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas (FRIA) was—and is—a comprehensive collection of maps for the eponymous D&D setting. Its 800+ maps are all hot-linked to…

Hereford Cathedral and its display of the Hereford map is on the list of placed I still need to visit – a wonderful example of medieval cartography. While looking at it online it occurred to …

CC4 News Simon announces the upcoming crowdfunding for CC4. Ralf previews the sidebar feature in CC4’s interface. CC4 will have an powerful new river command, which Ralf presents here. News T…

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YouTube video by ProFantasy Software

YouTube video by ProFantasy Software

YouTube video by ProFantasy Software

The April issue of the Annual 2026 has been released, giving you a second installment of content for January’s Hand-drawn City style with new symbols and drawing tools. You can now put your c…

Maps have been an integral part of the fantasy role-playing hobby since its inception, but often we think of the classic gridded dungeon map as the basic map that is used during the game. The overl…

You need towering structures rising from a jungle canopy or megalithic temples sitting on a lonely desert plateau? We’ve got you covered, so let’s climb the impressive step pyramids in …

In this live mapping session I create a simple hex style for making hexcrawl maps.

Welcome again, dear cartographers, to the user maps of of the month, this time from February 2026. They were shared by our amazing mappers with the community. Enjoy! The first map is by Shessar, sh…

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The March issue of the Cartographer’s Annual has been released, and it brings you a wonderful new map pack by Kevin Goebel. Explore the town of Edrinbury and the Black Cat Inn on 7 detailed m…

The current bi-weekly roleplaying campaign I am running is the excellent “Borellus Connection” for Pelgrane Press’ Fall of Delta Green game. I had the pleasure to create some of t…

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Welcome, dear cartographers, to the user maps of January 2026, share by our amazing mappers with the community. From old-school Forgotten Realms map to the final frontier of space, we have some bea…

In a personal flashback to a some very old vector symbols, I sat down to recreate the alien structures symbols from the original Dark Fantasy symbol set, this time for the Hand-drawn Fantasy style.…

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We are proud to present a new contributor to the Cartographer’s Annual: Ute Gundacker, longtime community member and prolific sharer of wonderful maps with a modern or future theme to them. One of …

Here we go, taking a look at the last maps of 2025. All of these were shared by our community on the ProFantasy forum, enjoy! Stephen Nentwig’s “Sinister Convictions” map is &#821…

Do you need a nice cliff for your adventurer to scale or to fall off from? How about some impressive seaside settlements that rise up those cliffs? The January monthly symbols add these features to…

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by Ralf Schemmann If you are reading this, it is highly likely that you are – like me – a fan of maps for role-playing maps. If you are also present on social media platforms at least a…

The full setup of the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 19 (2025) is now available, meaning you can install it by downloading and running one file from your registration page. There is no need to run…

Welcome to a new year and a new Cartographer’s Annual, dear mappers! We start of January with a new city style, completing the trilogy od hand-drawn style that we started last year. The Hand-…

The Cartographer’s Annual subscription for 2026 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 …

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Welcome dear cartographers to another collection of beautiful community-made maps. Check out these great maps of the CC3+ community. Thank you everybody for your awesome work! Will Mason’s Mo…

Do you have areas in your world where the forces of Good or Evil hold special power? Or where Chaos and Order clash in endless battle? Do you need to mark treasure locations or places of great magi…

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The Cartographer’s Annual December issue is now available. We’ve expanded last month’s hand-drawn dungeon style significantly with lots of new symbols, textures and drawing tools,…

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What lurks beneath the ocean waves and threatens to destroy those fragile wooden boats sialing on the surface? Map the dangers of the sea and promise those sailors a watery death, if they don&#8217…

Welcome dear fellow cartographer’s to another round up of awesome maps! Have a look what wonderful places the CC3+ community mapped in shared in October. Thank you everybody for your awesome …