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Dear Cartographers players,

New content for your favorite flip-and-write is now available with the addition of Cartographers: Heroes. Cartographers: Heroes introduces two new maps, new explore cards, new scoring cards, heroes, and more! All new content is considered in ALPHA and should be treated as such. Choose Cartographers: Heroes when setting up a table, or choose for "Custom" set-up to pick and choose new Elements, as the new content can be freely combined with the Base game content. If you encounter any bugs, please use the "Report a Bug" feature from the table on which it happened.

https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=cartographers

Enjoy!
jordijansen (developer for Cartographers)

Thank you very much for this great news!!!

Loving this expansion about 12 games into playing the Alpha. I’ve been playing the option with just the new expansion edicts and cards.

I might be crazy but I feel like I haven’t seen any ruins cards at all. I know that there were no ruins cards included in the expansion so if it is happening I wonder if this just a side effect of picking just the new expansion set?

lolycakes wrote: ↑14 December 2025, 15:41 Loving this expansion about 12 games into playing the Alpha. I’ve been playing the option with just the new expansion edicts and cards.

I might be crazy but I feel like I haven’t seen any ruins cards at all. I know that there were no ruins cards included in the expansion so if it is happening I wonder if this just a side effect of picking just the new expansion set?

Thanks for testing! If you've just selected Heroes with the default set-up, ruins are not included (as they aren't part of that game). You can switch to Custom setup to always include them!

Thank you! This is fantastic news!

Cool! Where can I find the rules for the heroes variant?

It's great so far, thank you!

One quick question regarding the Custom setup: will it be possible to configure the game to use a random selection from both base games? Where edicts can be a mix, cards can be a mix, and so on? AFAICT we can only use one set or the other, but not mix them?

Thanks!

nicuveo wrote: ↑13 January 2026, 23:56 It's great so far, thank you!

One quick question regarding the Custom setup: will it be possible to configure the game to use a random selection from both base games? Where edicts can be a mix, cards can be a mix, and so on? AFAICT we can only use one set or the other, but not mix them?

Thanks!

The original rules don't recommend mixing some of the cards (except the Scoring Cards). The game currently allows all "official" combinations.