#LIST OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES LICENSE#

Both games are based on the mechanics of Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Roleplaying Game. While many Star Wars video and computer games have storylines and elements of roleplaying, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords are the only single-player computer roleplaying games set in the Star Wars galaxy. However, without the improvisation of a human gamemaster and other human players, the storyline tends to be slightly more restricted. These games are often based on the 'tabletop' or 'pencil-and-paper' RPGs described above, and describe characters using their rules.

The term 'roleplaying game' is also used for certain video games where the player takes on the role of a character in an imaginary world, and makes choices which advance a story. Subsequent games, each cross-compatible, are Age of Rebellion and Force and Destiny. In 2013, Fantasy Flight released the Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook as the first of three iterations of their Star Wars roleplaying brand line.

#LIST OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES LICENSE#

Wizards of the Coast, a division of Hasbro Inc., took over the license and produced its Star Wars Roleplaying Game from 1999 until 2010, incorporating online elements into the system.įantasy Flight Games released a beta test of Edge of the Empire at Gen Con Game Fair in 2012. The creation of background material for the West End Games' game line had considerable influence on consolidating the formerly disorganized Expanded Universe into a coherent fictional universe. West End Games produced Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game from 1987 until 1998.

To date, there have been three producers of licensed Star Wars roleplaying products. He or she may also be responsible for advancing some kind of storyline or plot, albeit one which is subject to the somewhat unpredictable behavior of the players or outcome of the dice rolls. In a tabletop RPG, participants play the parts of characters in an imaginary scenario that is organized, adjudicated, and sometimes created by a 'gamemaster' or 'GM,' whose role is both to describe the setting and cast of characters for the players to interact with, and to adjudicate how these interactions proceed.

List of roleplaying games