Campaign Cartographer 3 continues to benefit from a strong community that shares its ideas and work via mailing lists, forums, blogs, and an online User’s Tutorial. ProFantasy also links to websites that sport maps and floorplans created using the CC3 software, allowing anyone interested to find and download these maps. A quick warning to anyone who wishes to sign up for the mailing list: It is extremely active and a participant can get up to thirty or more emails a day if a hot topic is being discussed. I found the community to be extremely helpful in aiding me with my questions.
In addition, ProFantasy itself provides technical support. I am one of those people who had CC2 Pro and wanted to upgrade to CC3, and I wanted detailed instructions on how to upgrade since I had several maps that were extremely important to my business. Within twenty-fours, I received an email with detailed instructions on how to proceed and reassurances that I should not have any problems getting everything to convert, which turned out to be entirely accurate.
Campaign Cartographer 3 can be purchased for $44.95 from Profantasy or for as low as $39.50 from rpgshop.com. It can also be purchased from various gaming and hobbyist stores across the United States and England. (Buyer’s warning: Please make sure that you do not buy a used copy, or you may not be able to register the product. Registration allows you to download their upgrades and fixes as well as buying upgrades at a discounted price.) If you already own CC2 Pro, you can upgrade to CC3 $36.95 via the registration page.
CC3 can also be purchased in a bundle with several other programs such as Dungeon Designer 3, City Designer 3, Perspectives Pro and Cosmographer Pro. ProFantasy offers several bundles at reduced prices, though the Whole Shebang (the complete collection) weighs in at a whopping $571.00, but the purchaser receives eighteen products including a World War II Interactive Atlas, three symbol sets, and three sets of source maps.
This product is a great purchase for any novelist, artist, game designer, or hobbyist who wishes to turn their imaginary landscapes into a visual reality.
