The Cartographer's Annual 2024

January

For the January issue of the Cartographer's Annual 2024 we reimagine the Fantasy Realms style by Allyn Bowker from 2009. We add lots of symbols and combine the tools with textures by Mike Schley.

The result is a very different look, that is still excellent for displaying local to regional maps of any Fantasy setting.

The style pack Fantasy Realms Reimagined includes

1 expanded and reimagined drawing style by Allyn Bowker
2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
30 new drawing tools
48 symbols in 6 catalogs
16 bitmap fill styles
1 5-page mapping guide
1 example map (FCW and JPG format)

February

In February the Cartographer's Annual 2024 gives you a new overland map style using many beautiful mountain symbols by Robert Altbauer and parchment textures.

The style excels at depicting large scale world and contintental maps, showing mountain ranges and other dominant geographical features.

The style pack Parchment Worlds includes:

2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
1 new overland drawing style
41 new drawing tools
133 symbols in 6 catalogs
3 bitmap fill styles
1 4-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)
5 symbol fill settings

March

For the March issue of the Annual 2024 Sue Daniel is back with a new dungeon style focussing on the smelly underside of cities: the sewers.

Expect nasty sewage and dirty water textures, slimy tunnels and lots of symbols for things that may be found in these drainage tunnels.

The style pack Sinister Sewers includes

1 new dungeon drawing style by Sue Daniel
2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
24 new drawing tools
144 new symbols in 8 catalogs
15 new bitmap fill styles
1 5-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)

April

In the April issue of the Annual 2024 we present a new city style by Pär Lindström. It is based on his freelance work on a 19th century map of Stockholm and other nordic cities.

The style "Parchment City" is set up to quickly assemble large cities on a per-block basis and then add detail for individual landmark buildings, all in a period-look of modern city maps.

The style pack Parchment City includes

1 new city drawing style by Pär Lindström
2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
29 new drawing tools
65 new symbols in 3 catalogs
6 new bitmap fill styles
2 new effect setting
4 new house settings
1 4-page mapping guide
1 example map (FCW and JPG format)

May

The May issue of the Annual 2024 presents a tool pack for drawing extendible and variable stairs on dungeons and floorplans. No longer limited by symbols of fixed length and direction, the included drawing tools greatly expand your options.

More than a hundred new drawing tools add functionality to popular dungeons styles (DD3 Dungeon, Jon Roberts Dungeon and Dungeons of Schley), but can also be added and used in any other dungeon style. The accompanying mapping guides teaches you how to use and edit the tools, as well a how to set up your own.

The tool pack Stairs and Steps includes

104 new drawing tools in 3 dungeon drawing styles
50 new symbols in 1 catalog
40 new Symbols Along settings
3 new catalog settings
1 7-page mapping guide
3 example maps (FCW and JPG format)

June

In the June issue of the Annual 2024 new contributor C.C. Charon delivers a new city style aimed at mapping cities of the ancient world.

The style "Ancient Cities" adds new symbols and many new drawing tools, and utilizes CD3 bitmap fills along with detailed effect settings to create a unique new look.

The style pack Ancient Cities includes

2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
1 new city drawing style by C.C. Charon
61 new drawing tools
22 new symbols
19 bitmap fill styles
2 new effect setting
12 new house and street settings
1 4-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)

July

This month community veteran Quenten Walker revisits the Watabou Cities tool pack and style. The style referenced the Watabou online random village, town and city generator and leveraged it to create city maps in CC3+.

Since its inception, the Watabou map generator has been changed and developed further. Quenten has taken it on himself to revise the style to take the changes into account and expand it to offer more tools and options.

The style pack Watabou City Revised includes

2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
1 revised and expanded city drawing style by Quenten Walker
97 new drawing tools
80 bitmap fill styles
2 new effect setting
1 12-page mapping guide and tutorial
2 example maps (FCW and JPG format)

August

The August issue of the Annual 2024 brings you a revamped and refreshed overland mapping style by Sarah Wroot, one of the earliest fantasy cartographers who contributed to Campaign Cartographer.

Sarah's style "Sarah Wroot Revisited" takes beautiful hand-crafted line symbols and combines them with watercolor style backgrounds to create a wonderful artistic result. It combines easily with the hand-drawn style from Symbol Set 1 - Fantasy Overland (also created by Sarah Wroot) for a much wider variety of symbols.

The style pack Sarah Wroot Revisited includes

1 overland drawing style "Sarah Wroot Revisited"
28 drawing tools
2 templates (imperial and metric)
8 bitmap fills
214 vector symbols in 7 catalogs
1 6-page mapping guide
1 example map (FCW and JPG format)
1 effect setting

September

In the September issue of the Annual 2024 we take a look at, use and reference all the different free monthly overland symbols that have been released over the last two and a half years.

The Annual includes a large and detailed world map, that uses all the different monthly symbols, showcasing them per set. The accompanying mapping guide explains the sets and adds a little bit of background ideas and story seeds for the world shown, while a pdf reference guide serves as a look up.

The map pack A World of Monthly Symbols includes

1 large-scale world map using Mike Schley overland symbols, regular and monthly (FCW and JPG format)
17 sub section exports, highlighting individual monthly symbol sets
17 symbol catalog reference drawings (FCW)
1 symbol catalog reference file (PDF)
1 10-page mapping guide , showcasing and listing the monthly symbol sets

October

The October issue of the Annual 2024 delivers a wonderfully whimsical and simple dungeon style by community mapper CC Charon, where colorful sticky notes represent dungeon rooms. Corridors drawn on the background paper connect them, and they are populated by handdrawn traps and monsters.

120 hand-drawn bitmap symbols, 18 drawing tools and 7 bitmaps styles combine in the Sticky Notes Dungeon style to allow you paste together charming dungeon designs within minutes.

The style pack Monkey Frog Overland 2 includes

2 new template wizards (portrait and landscape)
1 new drawing style by CC Charon
18 drawing tools
120 new symbols in 11 catalogs
7 bitmap fill styles
1 new effect setting
1 3-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)

November

The November issue of the Annual 2024 brings you a new town or local area style based on modern satellite imagery and road maps. Tiling bitmap fills combine to create terrain as if from satellite or aerial photography and easy-to-use road and building tools add the rest.

The accompanying 4-page mapping guide takes you through the creation of a Satellite Streets map in a few simple, easy-to-follow steps.

The style pack Satellite Streets includes

2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
1 new drawing style
29 drawing tools
14 bitmap fill styles
27 symbols in 1 catalogs
2 new street settings
16 new house settings
2 new effect settings
1 4-page mapping guide
1 example map in two versions (FCW and JPG format)

December

The December issue of the Annual 2024 presents a new overland style by C.C. Charon. It is inspired by pencil sketches like you might find in a cartographer's notebook.

More than one hundred stylish black & white symbols combine with easy to use drawing tools to make creating pencil sketches quick and simple. The 5-page mapping guide takes you through the process.

The style pack Pencil Sketch includes

2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
1 new drawing style by CC Charon
22 drawing tools
101 new symbols in 7 catalogs
6 new bitmap fill styles
1 new effect setting
1 5-page mapping guide
2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)

Bonus

As usual, we close the year with the Annual's bonus issue and make one issue available for free (which this year is actually the bonus issue). The bonus issue adds the Random Dungeon generator command for the DD3 Dungeon style that comes with Dungeon Designer 3.

The Random Dungeon command was introduced as a free download, but only included the style components for the Jon Roberts Dungeon style. This Annual issue expands the options and also contains instruction on how to implement it for any other dungeon style.

The tool pack Random DD3 Dungeon includes

1 new Random Dungeon style
2 updated templates for the DD3 Dungeon style
12 drawing tools
4 new symbols
2 new random dungeon settings
1 5-page mapping guide
5 example maps (FCW and JPG format)

This pack is available as a free issue and can be used by anyone with Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus and Dungeon Designer 3. You can download it individually from this link.

Further ahead

To be announced.

This is our 18th annual and many of our customers have repeatedly subscribed from the beginning. Every year we balance the content so that the Cartographer's Annual is excellent value no matter how you use CC3+.

Cartographer's Annual 2024 Content