RPGA

The RPGA, alternatively known as the Role Playing Game Association and the RPGA Network, is a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast that organized sanctioned Star Wars tournament scenarios for the West End Games d6, and the later Wizards of the Coast d20, RPG systems. Founded in November 1980 by Frank Mentzer of TSR, Inc., Wizards of the Coast acquired the RPGA when they purchased TSR in 1997. In 1994, the Network was headed by Jean Rabe, having taken over from her predecessor, Penny Petticord.

Prior to running the Living Force and Dawn of Defiance campaigns the RPGA—operating as TSR, Inc.—ran the Star Wars: Warriors of the Republic campaign, designed for the Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded rules.

Daniel Wallace acknowledged an attempt to track down obscure RPGA star systems. Those star systems created by authors who had received an author credit for other licensed Star Wars material were included in 2009's The Essential Atlas.

On January 28, 2010 it was announced by Greg Yahn, the Director of Marketing for Wizards of the Coast that Wizards' would not seek to renew the Star Wars license with Lucasfilm, and it would lapse in May of that year. Citing "economic downturn", the license to produce all of the company's Star Wars brand lines would be discontinued. RPGA™ Network-sanctioned tournament scenarios were therefore notably absent from 2010 onwards but RPG scenarios did eventually return to the Gen Con Game Fair in 2013, sponsored by Fantasy Flight Games.

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