Cartograph - Atlas Edition

Fantastic game! Hope you guys can soon figure out shipping to the EU again. Can't wait to get my hands on the real book! :D

Cartograph is a brilliant map-drawing RPG and worldbuilding engine. Each turn shapes the land, while you physically sketch the evolving region in front of you. It’s tactile, creative, and incredibly satisfying to watch a blank page slowly transform into a living map 

It pairs beautifully with other systems, and feels almost meditative while still telling a story. If you enjoy drawing maps, procedural generation, or building worlds from the ground up, Cartograph is an easy recommendation.

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Are there anymore community copies available? I would love play it.

This game looks awesome. Are you planning to have any community copies available anytime soon? I want to buy the printed copy, but cannot afford it right now :(

Hello! I'm not sure if this was intentional and I'm just not understanding it, or if this is a mistake. In the Rest rules, it says to roll a d6 and half the result to determine the price of wares. In the Rules Reference, it says to use a d3. It's entirely possible I'm just misunderstanding something, but in case it is a mistake I wanted to let you know!

Thank you for this. I plan on using my new copy to keep myself occupied during chemo. I'll try and pay it forward somehow but really do appreciate you making community copies available. It really does help.

hi, I don't suppose there are any more community copies? 

Is the journal available in print anywhere?

I just found out about this on Instagram, and I wanted to ask whether there is a typical schedule for when community copies are made available or is it just when people ask for them?

Hey there, I have been inspired by Friends at the Table and wanted to run this for some friends who love world building and then doing a Fabula Ultima campaign. Is there any chance to get a community copy

Can this game be played online?

This game looks like something I'd love, but I keep missing available community copies. Any chance of getting one? 

Enjoying the game, but I'd need a clarification for Red Item Table, King card. It says "Fortune device. Gain 4 landmark dice. Costs 4 more coin." I'm confused by the last part - what costs 4 more coins? Everything from this point onwards? This item?

Another, unrelated question: does the game end immediately if you run out of dice, even if you could get more in the rest phase? As in, I have a landmark die and a biome die. I draw a card and travel to a location. The location table has me lose a biome die so I only have the landmark die left. I enter the rest phase, where I lose 1 remaining die. But I have rest actions that I could use to get more dice - is this considered losing, or is it only a loss if I don't have any dice left to lose when I enter the rest phase?

Is there a way to link our itch.io accounts to purchases made on your website?

Hello! Really looking forward to digging into this. However I want to flag that something about the PDF is really disagreeing with my printer. The print files appear to be over 100MB, even when I'm just trying to print off a couple pages. The middle spreads of the book, e.g. page 44 or thereabouts, just flat out refuses to print and the printer just spits out blank pages afterward. I haven't been able to find a workaround yet. Just mentioning because I thought I saw another commenter describing a similar issue.

Hello all! I've purchased and printed out the previous version of the book, but I got a notification, that an update was released. Can we get a change log? I would rather make corrections in my current copy, instead of reprinting it again..

Hello there, 

I just red Cartographer, Atlas Edition rules and I can't wait to start playing !
I've got a question though : In the Exemple Play p 35, during Jessie's first turn, she trows 2 landmark dice and 3 biome dice but p 33, you precise that her historian cartographer get to have 2 landmark dice and 2 biome dice (and not 3 as show in the illustration 2 pages later). Did I miss something ?
Thank you for your answer and for sharing with us such a wonderfull game :)

I did something similar with my Creative Writing kids at school as well - except we just kind of freestyled and got them to just brainstorm off a blank page... and ended up with a Jurassic-era jungle world where dinos and humanoids coexist...in a human-supremacist society!!

 Got some awesome stories out of it, but they struggled a bit with the mapmaking bit. So much respect for you gamemakers who churn out these full sets of rules and gamesheets! Took me an hour just to flesh out the parameters of worldmaking and powerpoint slides for my kids!

If you ever put in any more community copies, I'd love to give this a shot with my students!

I want you to know that I heard about your game from an Instagram ad. I don't want to give Meta any of your money, so I searched it separately. I haven't played yet, but I've been looking for something exactly like this. 

I'm very excited.

Hi, I adore the game and had a great time with it, is there a place the community gathers? If not, let go here and ask some questions I have about it
#1 temporary dice seem to be the best option to use for hunting or Rest Phase. There are quite a few cards that grant them. Is that intended?
#2 In Arrival Phase, you draw one card and use for both journey and location table. Is there a some patter to the pairings, because to me, it seemed more intuitive to draw a new card for each
#3 Sometimes prompts ask you to lose a resource you don't have, including step one in Arrival Phase. I assume then nothing happens, but it feels a bit wrong to leverage such rules. I am considering imposing a penalty like wound or losing dice, Any thoughts?
 

what is required to get the deck of cards that go with the game?

Had the opportunity to take part in a five-player collaborative Cartograph session guided by Brandon at Briscon 2025 this weekend, and it was awesome. So much fun "Yes and"-ing each other's suggestions resulting in a magical world that none of us would have come up with on our own. It will be a while before I can stomach the idea of eating cheese again, mind you...

Hi! I'm a history & geography teacher from Brazil. I started a RPG Club in the school I work at and I'd really like to show my students this game! We've recently played Artefact by Jack Harrison and this would be a great follow. Unfortunately, being a public school teacher and with the currency in Brazil as it is, we can't afford to buy the game. Would you have any idea of when any more community copies might be available? Thank you so much!

hi there. Just wondering if you ever add community copies. I run a ttrpg group for my middle school students and I think they’d like trying this.  

I had an afternoon free and decided to play this on a lark after hearing it played on Friends at the Table - had a lovely time with it, filled a moleskine over a few hours, enjoyed myself immensely.

I really love your game thank you! Is there any chance to wait for a low-ink printer friendly version? It will be really cool to print and play :)

Would you happen to have tips for playing Cartograph online, Brandon and team?

Great GM less map making game.

Hi I'm someone who has the old version of cartograph, What is the difference/updates that makes this version better? or is it the exact same?

What do you do when you are told to 'Mark and name a discovery'??  I take it you put a '?' on the map area but there is no naming table for discoveries.  So I am a little confused.

Hi,
I recently acquired a hardcopy of this at supanova.
Are the character sheets available somewhere to play as a pdf, or will I have to purchase this pack to get them?
Cheers

How many pages is the book? Is it better to print it as a hard cover or soft cover?

On page 7, is it meant that either 'Fame' in the text or 'Notoriety' in the table be the same thing? If so, which word was intended?

Absolutely love using this to build out regions of my fantasy world! 100% Recommend for fledgling map makers

I am super hyped about playing it after seeing some reviews! I'd like to pre-order the physical edition; does it give access to the pdf, to start playing before August?