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Map Making MEGA Bundle Encore

November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM

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November 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM

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Last week technical problems prevented me from getting past the introduction of this topic, so let's try again and map a star system in the Traveller System style from Cosmographer 3! youtube.com/live/eM6dB2b...

Live Mapping: Cosmographer Sytem Map

November Annual Issue – Hand-drawn Dungeons

November 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM

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The November issue of the Cartographer's Annual is available! Explore a new hand-drawn dungeon style in this latest edition. rpgmaps.profantasy.com/november-ann...

The Cartographer’s Annual November issue is now available. Seeing the popularity of the Hand-drawn Fantasy style from May and June, we decided to expand this kind of symbols to the Floorplans…

Live Mapping: Cosmographer System Map

November 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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Join me tomorrow in mapping with a Cosmographer 3 style: multi-panel star system maps for Traveller and other science fiction games.
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In this live mapping session I create a star system map in Cosmographer's Traveller System style.

Maps of the Month – September 2025

October 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM

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Check out the Maps of the Month (from September 2025) for some wonderful work of our community. Thank you everybody for sharing!
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Welcome dear cartographer’s to another wonderful selection of community maps. Their owners and makers shared them in the community forum or on our Facebook group, an we’re collecting a …

Free monthly symbols – Halfling Settlements and Ancient Ruins (October 2025)

October 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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The new monthly symbols for the Hand-drawn fantasy style are now available. Check out symbols for Dwarven and Orcish settlements.
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While the dwarves dig deep into the mountains and build their subterranean palaces into the roots of the world, the orcs settle the wastes and steppes of the world, always to fight and plunder the …

Live Mapping: Dracula Dossier Floorplan

October 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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In tomorrow's live mapping session I will plan and start creating a modern floorplan with the Dracula Dossier style from the Cartographer's Annual Vol 9.
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In this live mapping session I take a look at creating a modern floorplan using the Dracula Dossier style.

Travelling into the history of Aventuria and the Dark Eye

October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM

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I've been away for our semi-annual role-playing retreat over the weekend, and enjoyed a return to our own gaming history with my friends. Here you'll find one of the maps I created for that a game: rpgmaps.profantasy.com/travelling-i...

Last weekend I was away for a role-playing retreat with my old gaming group from high school (yes, from almost 40 years ago). We meet up once or twice a year and re-visit that imaginary world we st…

Live Mapping: Handdrawn Fantasy - Bitmap vs Symbol Fills

October 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM

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After we ran into technical problems during this video last time, we're gonna give it another try: We'll look at the latest free hand-drawn symbols and discuss bitmap versus symbol fills for larger terrain features.
youtube.com/live/OAFdtdZ...

October Annual Issue – Delomoro Keep by Kevin Goebel

October 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM

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The October Annual issue is now available. Explore Delomoro Keep by Kevin Goebel in this gorgeous map pack. rpgmaps.profantasy.com/october-annu...

The Cartographer’s Annual October issue is now available. Explore the 10 levels of Delomoro Keep mapped in glorious detaul by Kevin Goebel (Royal Scribe). Make it your adventuring base, assau…

Informative Maps 05 – Map Index

October 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM

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You can explore the possibilities of automatically indexing a map with Remy's latest article in his Informative Maps series: rpgmaps.profantasy.com/informative-...

In Informative Maps 01 – City Demographics I tackled how you can use demographics coloring to visually show the demographics of your city. Another very useful way to add information to city m…

The Cartographer’s Travels – Sines and Vasco da Gama

October 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM

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Sines - the birthplace of Vasco da Gama - was a stop on my trip to Portugal earlier this year. Here are some of the photos I took plus a few thoughts on how he relates to our hobby.
rpgmaps.profantasy.com/the-cartogra...

Earlier this year I was in Portugal, hiking on the Rota Vicentina or the Fishermen’s Trail. It’s a great coastal hike with beautiful towns, stunning cliffs and amazing beaches, but it i…

Live Mapping: Handdrawn Fantasy - Bitmap vs Symbol Fills

September 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM

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Join me in tomorrow's live mapping session for a look at the recent free monthly symbols for the Handdrawn Fantasy style, and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using bitmap vs symbol fills for terrain features.
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In this live mapping session I I check out the latest free symbols for the Handdrawn Fantasy style and discuss using Bitmap vs Symbol Fills for larger terrain features.

Free monthly symbols – Halfling Settlements and Ancient Ruins (September 2025)

September 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM

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The new free monthly symbols add halfling settlements and ancient ruins to the Hand-drawn Fantasy style.
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From lofty elven towers we turn our attention to the humble, earthy dwellings of the halfling people. Burrowing into the hillsides their bucolic settlements are neither fortified nor exceedingly we…

Live Mapping: Shessar's Cartouches

September 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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Enjoy the Maps of the Month from August. Many thanks to all our users who share their wonderful work!
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September 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Join me in tomorrow's live mapping session for a look at the latest Cartographer's Annual and Shessar's brilliant compass roses and scalebars.
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There are lots of things you can do in CC3+, and often lots of ways you can do every thing. Today I am going to take a look at 10 quick things that are helpful to know for any mapper. Note that the…

September 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM

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heck out Remy's 10 quick and very useful tricks to make your life easier in CC3+.
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10 Quick CC3+ tips

Maps of the Month – July 2025

September 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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Check out the maps of the month of July. Despite July being a bit quieter due to the summer holidays, our mappers shared some wonderful maps again!
rpgmaps.profantasy.com/maps-of-the-...

Welcome dear Cartographers for another great selection of user maps from our community! All of these were posted on the Profantasy forum our the CC3+ group on Facebook. It’s been a bit quiete…

Free monthly symbols – Elven Structures (August 2025)

August 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM

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The free monthly symbols for August are available now. For once they are not by Mike Schley, but add elven structures to the Hand-drawn Fantasy style from the Cartographer's Annual 2025.
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As Mike Schley is busy working on another project we can’t quite talk about yet, we are pivoting the free monthly symbols from the Dungeons of Schley style to the Hand-drawn Fantasy style int…

Live Mapping: Sector and Subsector Maps

August 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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Join me tomorrow for a look at the sector and subsector styles of Cosmographer 3. I'll also show off the Traveller sector import in the process. youtube.com/live/SDCFdPU...