The universe is in 3D, so why map it in 2D? Use AstroSynthesis, NBOS's revolutionary star mapping system for sci-fi gamers, authors, and space buffs!

With AstroSynthesis, you can can map out large portions of space - plotting stars, interstellar routes, and subsectors. And best of all, you do it completely in 3D space! Zoom in and out on your sector, pan and rotate around stars, follow routes, and watch fantastic animation effects - all in 3D.

Because star systems contain so much data, AstroSynthesis also includes a powerful star system generator to help you fill out your map. With this generator it's possible to randomly create large areas of space - placing single and multiple star systems, nebula, and other stellar bodies on your sector map.

The new version of Campaign Cartographer combines the power of computer aided design with beautiful hand-crafted artwork and ease of use to provide what we think is the best and most effective tool for creating maps for roleplaying games and wargames.

From the smallest village to the greatest metropolis, the City Designer Pro add-on for CC2-Pro is the only RPG tool that lets you create beautiful, incredibly detailed city maps with ease and speed.

City Designer Pro gives you astonishing control over every aspect of city creation. You can specify everything from global colour-coding for different zones and districts, right down to the style and shape of each house (even the chimneys). Every detail you could want is easy to find, simple to use - and looks great.

Let City Designer Pro do the hard work for you. Street Builder creates an entire street of different buildings with just two clicks. House Builder creates custom buildings matching the pre-drawn symbol styles (and you can add your own styles). The street-indexer creates hypertext linking to each location.

You also get more than 1,000 new Smart Symbols for more than a dozen popular styles including Fantasy, SF, Present-day, Gothic, Orcish, Elvish and Classical. Just move a Smart Symbol over a road and it rotates precisely into position.

This small box contains everything from galaxies to starships!

With Cosmographer Pro, you can add computer-aided cartography to your sci-fi game and create ships and worlds like never before. You get easy new drawing tools, textures and a palette of several thousand symbols to rapidly construct ships for any game system.

Cosmographer Pro - The cosmic add-on for CC2-Pro.

Whether you're designing a complete dungeon or just the floorplan for your local inn or temple, Dungeon Designer 3 gives you all the tools you'll ever need to create corridors, caves and rooms of all shapes and sizes, plus more than 500 stunning symbols, from simple doors and windows to devious traps, ornate coffins, lifelike statues, sacred altars, tempting treasure, and more.

Dungeon Designer 3 is an add-on to Campaign Cartographer. Any purchase of Dungeon Designer Pro from now on includes a free art upgrade if you have CC3 - giving you Dungeon Designer 3.

ProFantasy’s Symbol Set 1, Fantasy Overland, adds two fabulous new symbol styles to CC2-Pro. There are more than 1,000 new symbols on the CD-ROM, each one painstakingly crafted by expert fantasy artists. And their pain is your benefit. A symbol that took hours to create can be added to a map in moments. With these new Fantasy Overland symbols you can make the most beautiful, distinctive CC2-Pro maps yet.

You use these symbols exactly like any other CC2-Pro symbol - pick one from the onscreen symbol catalog and click to place it anywhere. There is a new toggle icon to quickly swap between each symbol style so, even with this many symbols, it’s a cinch to find the one you want.

With Fractal Mapper, creating worlds has never been so easy! Fractal Mapper is a high-powered mapping system that lets gamers create a wide variety of of maps - dungeons, continents, cities, and more! With it's easy to use interface, powerful features, and unique capabilities, making high quality maps with Fractal Mapper is a breeze!

Also included is a free add-on program called Fractal World Explorer. With this program you can create and edit stunning 3d shaded relief maps. In addition, FWE allows you to edit temperature and precipitation to create deserts and glaciers. You can even export an elevation contour map for use in Fractal Mapper!

Want to create an entire world in under five minutes? Welcome to FT. Want to export that world as an image, animation, icosahedral, VRML, or CC2 file? Welcome to FT. Want to generate maps from real world Earth data? Welcome to FT.

Worlds can take so long to map. Coming up with a reasonable world in the midst of a sci-fi gaming session involves either drawing upon generic stock, or risking the inaccurate. Drawing realistic global maps can take hours - days even. Not any more.

For the fastest world generation, simply click the Next World icon. A fractal-filled moment later, FT delivers you an entire world - complete with climate, rainfall and temperature zones. Not the the world you imagined? No problem, just click the icon again, and again, and again.

You're setting the scene for your players: a busy modern city street, crowded with buildings of every kind, traffic on the road, people bustling past, the smell of exhaust fumes and fast food... "This is all very well", say the players, "But what’s the actual geography of the street? If we’re going to break into that bank, we need to know the layout!"

You reach for your map, and lay before them an eagle’s-eye view of the street, decorated with a multitude of perfectly crafted symbols, showing vehicles, food stalls, statues, trees, even the fire hydrants! Suddenly everything is crystal clear to the players, except for one thing: "Look at the detail! Where did you get all these fantastic symbols?"

With ProFantasy Modern Symbols, this can be your gaming experience. Stun your players with the lush detail and vivid realism that only comes from a set of over 1,100 lovingly crafted modern overland and floorplan symbols for Campaign Cartographer 2 Pro.

Symbol Set 3 also includes more than 50 new mapping tools and 30 new mapping templates in imperial and metric dimensions.

"You pick the lock and very slowly open the door. A huge hall stretches before you, its vaulted ceiling stretching into darkness … oh heck, just let me show you." You place a full-colour, beautifully rendered, three-dimensional picture of the room before the players. They crowd around in awe, and as you continue your description, for the first time in all their role-playing experience, the players can actually SEE where they are.

This is what awaits when you create your next adventure using Perspectives Pro: complete three-dimensional pictures of every room in your palace, dungeon, pyramid, tavern or den of iniquity. Wherever your game takes you, Perspectives Pro can create incredibly realistic 3D representations of any room, directly from your floorplan!

Decorate your rooms from a huge array of fantasy symbols; create walls, solid shapes and floors at any angle; apply colour schemes that vary with the light direction; it’s so realistic you’ll think you’re really there! And the best part is that it’s so easy to do: you don’t have to labour for hours drawing a separate picture for each room, with Perspectives Pro you can create them in seconds. It simply doesn’t get any easier than this!

Whether your characters need a stronghold, your villain needs an impregnable bastion, or your miniatures need a fort to besiege, Source Maps: Castles! is what you need to fire your imagination.

SM:C offers twenty-five archetypal castle layouts with surroundings and 3D views. Based on floorplans of the historical castles with conjectural detail, the plans paint a complete picture of these fortifications in their heyday. SM:C also offers you drawings, oodles of historical detail and fantasy adventure material to use in your favourite RPG.

Finally, if you have CC2 Pro, SM:C adds Castle Designer Pro, a powerful new add-on giving you what you need to create more castles, or populate the ones in SM:C. Castle Designer Pro includes drawing tools, a selection of symbols including fiendish siege machinery and castle fixtures, templates and powerful new drawing tools to create stylish castles of your own.

Whether you want to sneak through dank alleyways, offload loot in a bustling market, or simply take in the grandeur and intrigue of the big city that you crave, Source Maps: Cities will kindle your imagination.

From the splendor of ancient Babylon to the squalor of medieval York, SM:Cities gives you the magic of eight fully-mapped cities and more than 70 urban floorplans, from immense temple complexes to Viking halls and longboats.

With detailed city plans, 3d views and numerous floor plans, plus extensive yet richly-detailed historical and adventure material, this is an unparalleled resource for game masters and historians alike.

Finally, if you have our Campaign Cartographer 3 map making software, SM:Cities adds new tools to help you create more villages, towns and cities, or change the ones in this Source Maps collection. The tools include a selection of symbols, templates and powerful new drawing tools to create stylish settlements of your own.

Whether you are a new user or an expert, this all-in-one 512-page tome will give you tips and techniques to make better maps with Fractal Terrains Pro, CC2 Pro and all add-ons.

The Tome includes the collated wisdom of many expert map-makers. It gives you unrivalled access to new cartographic styles that will increase the attractiveness and utility of your maps. Beginners will appreciate the extensive tutorials giving a gentle introduction, while power users will get the most from the command reference and macro information.

The Tome is available as a hardback, paperback, pdf on CD and pdf download versions. The book versions include the CD. The PDF is cross-referenced and bookmarked. The Tome includes over 50MB of support files; example maps, symbol catalogs, tutorial files templates and style packs.

Buying the Tome gives you free updates to the PDF version and support files, so your information will keep up with our development.