Synopsis
Campaign Cartographer 2 is the ultimate Game Master's mapping tool and helps you create maps and designs for role-playing campaigns. It's not confined to squares or hexes or limited by distance and has a huge fantasy symbol library that makes use of the Windows interface with its True Type fonts and easy printing. A wealth of options are available, ranging from bitmap libraries to a scripting language and freehand sketching to a fractal function that adds randomness to simple shapes.
Game Masters can create hot spots for locations with various links such as a world map to a continent, a continent map to a city or a city to a house floor plan; even links to other files and websites are possible. Bookmarks on files can be arranged in a particular order for quick reference during an adventure and text can be inserted and manipulated in a variety of fonts and colors. Objects can be moved, scaled, rotated, copied and stretched. With the "in front" and "behind" commands, terrain and other features can be easily added to a map.
Master sheets, known as "superlayers," are used to make sure certain features, such as hex grids, are layered properly and also allow creation of "secret sheets" for Game Masters in addition to player-versions of each map -- the former with traps and secret doors and the latter without. Maps can be tiled together and an entire dungeon printed at miniature scale or a series of overlapping sheets can depict a vast campaign map.
The product has extensive online support and is constantly being upgraded and improved. With a wealth of add-ons including Character Artist, City Designer 2 and Dungeon Designer 2, Campaign Cartographer 2 offers a chance for every Game Master to answer the question: "Where are we?"
