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CARTOGRAPHERS HEROES

2021 silver Meeple's Choice award
The expedition to the Western Lands is the kind of honor that comes once in a lifetime for a royal cartographer. But these are dangerous times. War ravages the land, and you are sure to encounter Dragul forces determined to thwart Queen Gimnax’s plans for western expansion.

Fortunately, brave heroes have risen to the defense of Nalos. Chart their deeds alongside the queen's edicts and secure your place in history.

Cartographers Heroes is the sequel to the critically acclaimed map-drawing game, Cartographers. It includes all new map sheets, scoring cards, explore cards, and ambush cards with unique abilities.

Cartographers Heroes can be played on its own or mixed with components from the original game for a greater variety of gameplay possibilities.

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

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Accolades for our first game in the series, Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale
Dice Tower Best New Designer award
Dice Tower Best Small Publisher award
Room 51 2021 Award

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.

Kethra's Gates Explore card

HEROES

If a HERO CARD is revealed, each player draws a 1x1 square anywhere on their map and fills it with the hero terrain type, then makes hit markings on each space that the hero can attack, as indicated on the hero card. All normal rules and restrictions apply.

Hit markings do not fill spaces, and may be placed overlapping already filled spaces. Monsters in spaces a hero can attack are destroyed!
Dobrik of Lorkheim Hero card
Freyla the True Hero card

DESTROYED SPACES

Some spaces on a player’s map sheet may become destroyed in Cartographers Heroes. When a space is destroyed, place a large X over the space. Destroyed spaces are considered filled spaces, but do not have a terrain type.
Giant Troll Ravage Ambush card
Dragon Inferno Ambush card

Cartographers Heroes set up and ready to play

Cartographers Heroes game mat, save 50%

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 Map Generator image, featuring a display of different maps

THE CARTOGRAPHERS COLLECTOR'S EDITION

The Collector's Edition is a larger, Roll Player-sized box that has room to store additional Cartographers content from Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale, the original Skills Mini-Expansion, and the Ambush Mini-Expansion.
The Collector's Edition includes:

  • All the content from the retail edition of Cartographers Heroes 
  • Custom plastic insert (supports sleeved cards)
  •  Map Pack 1 - Nebblis: Plane of Flame
  •  Map Pack 2 - Affril: Plane of Knowledge
  •  Map Pack 3 - Undercity: Depths of Sabek
  •  Skills Mini-Expansion 2 - 8 new skills cards + rules card.
  •  Colored Pencils: 20 colored pencils (4 sets of 5 colors)
Cartographers Collector's Edition game box
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6 Cartographers map pack expansions

3 Explore cards, featuring Lagoon, Frontier Dwelling and Timber Grove

Roll Player and Cartographers puzzle box with 1,000 pieces, in stock and shipping now.
Stone path with bridge and flowers illustration
3 humanoids casting spells that look like electricity or lightening

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