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 cities, including castles and extensive fortifications on looming cliffs, bury the dead in proper graveyards and cemeteries, and plant lush greenery in […]

There is no getting around the fact that CC3+ contains a huge number of symbols, especially if you own all the add-ons, symbol sets and annuals, and even more if you have installed some of the available free community made sets, or maybe even imported images you have found yourself as symbols. We have different […]

The March issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2026 is available, presenting a map pack containting a fantasy town and the detailed floorplans of the Black Cat Inn. The free monthly symbols of March add Mesoamerican structures and settlements to the Hand-drawn Fantasy style. Resources Watch or re-watch the recent live mapping video from our playlist […]

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 overland map is secondary, showing the overall lay of the land, and is perhaps just used to find out the […]

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 this month’s free symbols of Mesoamerican Structures. Note that the example maps included with this free content make use of the full Hand-drawn Fantasy style […]