Download Rules and Maps

CREATE & PRINT YOUR OWN MAPS WITH THE CARTOGRAPHERS MAP GENERATOR

  • Set the number of Mountains
  • Set the number of Ruins
  • Set the number of Wasteland
  • Click "Apply" and watch the magic happen!

Then click "New Map" as often as you wish to generate new, random, and often surprisingly cool maps with your custom settings. Generate a PDF and/or print it out! 

Cartographers:
A Roll Player Tale

Queen Gimnax has ordered the reclamation of northern lands. As a cartographer in her service, you are sent to map this territory, claiming it for the Kingdom of Nalos. Gimnax’s edicts announce which lands she prizes most, and you will increase your reputation by meeting her demands.

But you are not alone in this wilderness. The Dragul contest your claims with their outposts, and so you must draw your lines carefully to reduce their influence.

Reclaim the greatest share of the Queen’s desired land and you will be declared the greatest cartographer in Nalos.

In Cartographers, players compete to get the highest reputation at the end of four seasons. Each season, players draw on their map sheet and score against unique conditions at the end of the season. The player with the highest reputation at the end of the year is declared the winner.

Design: Jordy Adan
Illustration: Lucas Ribeiro
Graphic Design: Luis Francisco
​Developer: Keith Matejka & John Brieger

How to Play Cartographers

CARTOGRAPHERS HAS GONE DIGITAL!
Learn to play Cartographers with this free, step-by-step online tutorial from DIZED! Launch!
Six Cartographers Map Packs pictured
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Three Explore cards featuring Hamlet, Orchard and Rift Lands

Gameplay

Explore Phase
A player reveals the top card of the Explore Deck and places it face up in the center of the table so all players can see it.

Draw Phase
All players simultaneously choose one of the terrain types and one of the shapes depicted on the explore card and draws it on their own map sheet.

Check Phase
At the end of the turn, the players check to see if the season is complete and players either move to the Scoring Phase or return to the Explore Phase.

Scoring Phase
Once the players have met or exceeded the time threshold on the season card, the season is complete and players score their map. A new season begins or the game ends after four seasons.
Cartographers set up for game play
A game of Cartographers in action!
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What's This 8-Card Mini Expansion All About?

8 Skill cards pictured overlapping each other
The artwork may be familiar to our Roll Player fans, but these assorted Skills add an interesting new way to play Cartographers.

Most require you to spend some of your gold, but will your investments pay off in the end?

Note that this expansion is included with all orders for Cartographers, but will later be sold separately on BGG. Don't miss out!

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Now you can play the original Cartographers on your desktop at Happy Meeple.

Learn how to play with their excellent tutorial, or simply jump right in. Multiple language options available.

FOUR-CARD AMBUSH MINI EXPANSION

Looking to add more variety to the Ambush cards in Cartographers? We now have four new Ambush cards available! How do they work? Simply shuffle these new cards with your existing Ambush cards and you're ready to play!    ORDER NOW
4 Ambush cards, including Flayer Incursion, Insectoid Invasion, Ratman Strike and Ogre Charge

TAKE YOUR ADVENTURES FURTHER WITH ROLL PLAYER PUZZLES!

Roll Player and Cartographers puzzle boxes, in stock and shipping now.
Countryside scene of an inn with waterwheel and stream. Fields throughout.