The Cartographer's Annual 2022

January

For the January issue of the Cartographer's Annual 2022 we start with a new overland style and tutorial for integrating (if you own it) or imitating (if you don't) worlds created with Fractal Terrains 3+.

The clear and beautiful Fractal Worlds style, is inspired by the work of Sue Daniel in the One-Day Worldbuilder Annual issue and let's you either take a world from FT3+ and quickly build on it in CC3+, or create a world map in CC3+ reminiscent of the output from FT3+.

The style and tutorial pack Fractal Worlds includes

1 new overland drawing style
53 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
13 new vector symbols
1 6-page tutorial and mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
1 updated export setting for FT3+

February

Pär Lindström has created a new overland style for a Swedish horror rpg including a beautiful framing of the maps in the form of a book background. We are sharing this with you as the Book of Maps style.

Not only does the Annual issue provide you a new style, it also let's you apply the book background to other maps and styles in your collection.

The style pack Book of Maps includes:

1 new overland drawing style by Pär Lindström
39 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
24 new bitmap fills
9 new bitmap symbols in 1 catalog
1 5-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
1 effects setting
1 map part "Book Frame"

March

The March issue of the Annual 2022 contains a new city style by community Sue Daniel, allowing you to create beautiful wintry scenes of villages and towns.

Compatible with the Darklands City style from the Annual 2021, the Winter Village style gives you all the tools and symbols to create a snowy setting for your settlements.

The style pack Winter Village includes

1 new city drawing style by Sue Daniel
28 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
17 new bitmap fills
117 new bitmap symbols in 1 catalog
1 4-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
6 new house settings
12 new street settings
2 effects setting

April

The April issue of the Annual 2022 contains a new local area style aimed at producing modern tactical maps reminiscent of military maps of the first half of the 20th century.

Inspired by examples from the Library of Congress collection of freely available historical maps, the style will allow you to quickly draw useful overview maps for modern-era investigative or tactical games for example.

The style pack Tactical Maps includes

1 new modern city/overland drawing style
37 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
100 new vector symbols in 2 catalogs
10 new hatch styles
1 5-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
2 effects setting

This issue is available as a free issue and can be used by anyone with Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus. It is available as part of the Cartographer's Annual Free Sampler, or you can download it individually from this link.

May

The May issue of the Annual 2022 contains a new drawing style to design computer system maps for Cyberpunk and other sci-fi settings.

The style "Electronic Systems" let's you create fictitious designs of electronic systems showing points of access, weak links and hacking targets. It can be used on its own, or added to an existing drawing as an overlay.

The style pack Electronic Systems includes

1 new techincal sytems overlay drawing style
20 new drawing tools
1 new template wizard
42 new vector symbols in 1 catalog
1 overlay drawing part
1 6-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
1 effect setting

June

The June issue of the Annual 2022 contains a new dungeon style by Sue Daniel focusing an crypts, graves and their undead denizens, with lots of new bitmap textures and symbols in Sue's signature quality.

Designed to match well with the style of Dungeon Designer 3, the Annual issue will also work on its own to give you all the tools and assets to design lots of "Creepy Crypts".

The style pack Creey Crypts includes

1 new dungeon drawing style by Sue Daniel
62 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
27 new bitmap fills
217 new bitmap symbols in 1 catalog
1 6-page mapping guide
3 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
2 new Symbols Along settings
2 effects setting

July

The July issue of the Annual 2022 is inspired by a recent trip to the Outer Hebrides and provides a new drawing style and new tools for generating many small islands and highly complex coastlines.

The style "Island Chains" can be used on its own, but its symbols and drawaing tools can also be employed in others to add the same kind of functionality for islands and coastlines to any overland style.

The style and tool pack Island Chains includes

1 new overland drawing style by Ralf Schemmann
20 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
158 new symbols in 1 catalog
1 6-page mapping guide
3 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
3 new Symbols Along settings
4 new Symbols in Area settings
1 effects setting

August

The August issue of the Annual 2022 extends the June's "Creepy Crypts" style with almost another 200 symbols to map those graveyards, crypts and underground burial chambers to perfection.

In addition to its new symbols "Creepy Crypts 2" picks up the ideas of July's Island Chain symbols and applies them to terrain patches. It also includes neatly connecting wall symbols for those cemetery walls.

The symbol pack Creepy Crypts 2 includes

197 new bitmap symbols in 8 catalogs by Sue Daniel
2 updated bitmap fills
1 3-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)

September

The September issue of the Annual 2022 celebrates the end of summer with a new dungeon and battle map style for some frigid caverns and icy waters. Let your players explore glacial tunnels, high mountain caves or the caverns beyond the mountains of madness.

The Ice Caverns style can be used as an extension to Dungeon Designer 3 or own its own. Either way, it is setup for ease of use making drawing some natural caves a snap.

The style pack Ice Caverns includes

1 new dungeon drawing style with 58 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
17 new and updated bitmap fill styles
43 updated bitmap symbols
1 5-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
1 new effect setting

October

The October issue of the Annual 2022 revisits an old favorite style: Jon Roberts' overland entry from the Annual 2011, adding new bitmap fills, drawing tools and settings to take advantage of the newer features of CC3+.

The Jon Roberts Revisited style gives you all the tools and symbols for overland regional, continental or world maps. The 5-page mapping guide takes you through the whole process of creating the map.

The style pack Jon Roberts Revisited includes

1 updated and expanded overland drawing style by Jon Roberts
48 drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
21 new bitmap fills
135 bitmap symbols in 10 catalogs
1 5-page mapping guide
1 example map (FCW and PNG format)
4 new Symbols in Area settings
1 effect setting

November

The November issue of the Annual 2022 adds another set of symbols and tools to Sue Daniels' run of dungeon and floorplan symbol styles. This time you can venture out into the woods and forests and fight beneath the shade of trees.

The Forest Trail gives you lots of new symbols and bitmap fills that work with the Dungeon Designer 3 and Creepy Crypts styles. Build encounter maps in the depths of the forest with easy options to switch between a view of the forest floor and the tree canopy.

The style pack Forest Trail includes

1 new dungeon drawing style by Sue Daniel
25 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
19 new bitmap fills
186 new bitmap symbols in 6 catalogs
1 6-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
1 part FCW
2 effect settings

December

The December issue of the Annual 2022 combines the Forest Trail and Creepy Crypt styles of the year into four A3 battle maps, that combine into one gigantic battle map of a forest graveyard and crypt.

The accompanying 6-page mapping guide delves into combining mulitple map styles into one template and use them at the same time.

The map pack Forest Graveyard includes

4 new A3 battle maps combining the Creepy Crypts and Forest Trail styles (FCW and JPG formats)
1 combined A1 battle map (FCW, JPG and PDF formats)
1 new template combining Creepy Crypts and Forest Trails
1 6-page mapping guide

Bonus

The bonus issue of the Annual 2022 sees Sue Daniel expanding her the Forest Trail style with additional bitmap fills, symbols and drawingt tools.

Map majestic water falls roaring down steep cliffs and white-water rivers rushing down steep gorges, with the water fall and cliff material included in this issue.

The style pack Forest Trail 2 includes

1 expansion to the Forest Trail drawing style by Sue Daniel
10 new drawing tools
2 updated templates (imperial and metric)
8 new bitmap fills
81 new bitmap symbols in 4 catalogs
1 4-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
2 effects setting

Cartographer's Annual 2022 Content