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Born in 1991 with the honorary title of "1st Brazilian RPG", Tagmar, then published by the GSA was the first Brazilian product to a market that still would be formed. Tagmar was a typical RPG from the beginning of the 90s, but had a series of innovations, the main one was to have everything that an RPG needed in a single book, rules, setting, magic, creatures and a ready adventure for beginners. At the time, the RPG books were imported and it was necessary to have several books to play them. With a setting based on the books of J. R. R. Tolkien, it has been accused unjustly of being based on D&D, especially by Dragão Brasil Magazine, at the time edited by Marcelo Cassaro, but in fact it was a very different system. Due to various characteristics, including the price, availability and new ideas, such as the unprecedented concept of Heroic Energy; in a short time, Tagmar became a success, gathering a large amount of fans. Along the 90´s the world of Tagmar was enlarged by the publication of complementaries books as the "Creatures Book" (Livro de Criaturas) and "The Empire" (O Império). This books take a several details (as appearance, skills and habitat) of the creatures of Tagmar and informations about new geographic regions.

This success lasted until nearly the end of the 90s, when in 1997 the publisher GSA closed. Without a publisher to continue the Tagmar remained stagnant.

The Renaissance

In September 2004, the authors of the RPG Tagmar met, in a historic decision, decided to release the commercial rights of the RPG, as long as it was not for profit ... With this resolution in hand, a group of people met and decided to create a new version of Tagmar ... Thus was born the Project Tagmar 2.

This project was created following the form of Open Gaming using a Creative Commons license. In this type of design products are created / developed through volunteer work and use a special license in which all material is generated from open license. Using this organization, the Tagmar 2 Project was designed with two main objectives:

• Create a new version of RPG Tagmar that is modern, updated and expanded.
• Creating a professional level RPG that is 100% free (for non-commercial purposes) and can be downloaded from the Internet!

Tagmar was an excellent RPG at the beginning of the 90s, but unfortunately it did not follow the trend of other RPGs. At the beginning of the project was a major search that resulted in a work plan with many ideas to be developed. Among the main items to be worked out:

• Unable to create the character (long and with many tables based on lots of dice rolls)

• Good setting, but too small.

• Imbalances between the professions and races.

• Few options for customization of the characters.

• Difficulty in understanding and using the combat system.

• Little emphasis on roleplaying (interpretation) and the setting.

After a year of work, the project finally came to an end with the release of Tagmar version 2.0 in September, 2005, which had as a main focus of the update rules. In March, 2006, was ready to version 2.1 which in addition to some more news at the rules, brings the long-awaited expanded setting, with the launch of the Book of Kingdoms. Currently, Tagmar is version 2.2 which was launched in July, 2007 that brings increments for the professions of Bard and Tracker, an expanded and comprehensive review of the Book of creatures in addition to numerous improvements at the rules.

Published material

Currently, Tagmar 2 has an extensive list of titles published that can be downloaded for free from site oficial. Among these titles are:

• Manual de Regras (Rules Manual)
• Livro dos Reinos (Book of Kingdoms)
• Livro de Criaturas (Monsters' Book)
• Livro de Magias (Book of Magic)
• Livro de Cronicas (Chronicles' Book)
• Livro dos Arquétipos (Archetypes' Book)
• Livro de Introdução à Ambientação (Book of Introduction to the Setting)
• Livro das Ordens Sacerdotais (Book of the Clerical Orders)
• Romance Traição & Magia (Treachery and Magic - Novel)
• 4 Aventuras Prontas (4 adventures ready to play)
• 6 Guias dos Colégios de Magia (6 Magic Schools' Guides)
• Guia Rápido de Criação de Personagens (Fast Character Creation Guide)
• Guia de Magia para Principiantes (Beginner's Magic Guide)

External links

• (Portuguese)Project Tagmar 2's website (in Portuguese only)
• (Portuguese)Crânios Ocos (Skull Hollow) - group that plays Tagmar
• (Portuguese)Tagmar on the site of Daemon Publisher