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''Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game'' is a role-playing game set in the ''Star Wars'' universe, written and published by West End Games (WEG) between 1987 and 1999. The game system was slightly modified and rereleased in 2004 as ''D6 Space'', which used a generic space opera setting. An unrelated ''Star Wars'' RPG was published by Wizards of the Coast from 2000 to 2010. Since 2012 the official ''Star Wars'' role-playing game is another unrelated game, published by Fantasy Flight Games. == History == The game, based on WEG's earlier ''Ghostbusters'' RPG, established much of the groundwork of what later became the ''''Star Wars'' expanded universe'', and its sourcebooks are still frequently cited by ''Star Wars'' fans as reference material. Lucasfilm considered the West End Games' ''Star Wars'' sourcebooks so authoritative that when Timothy Zahn was hired to write what became the ''Thrawn'' trilogy, he was sent a box of West End Games ''Star Wars'' books and directed to base his novel on the background material presented within. In 1992 West End Games published the second edition of the game, in which the title remained unchanged. In 1996 a revision of the second edition saw the light of day, but its title was slightly changed from ''Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game - Second Edition'' to ''The Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Second Edition - Revised and Expanded''.〔(All role-playing games' covers from West End Games can be seen in RPG.net, a role-playing games specialized website. )〕 By the end of the game's run around 140 sourcebook and adventure supplements were published for the game during its run through three editions.〔http://www.sandcrawler.com/SWB/westend.html ''Star Wars Collectors Bible'' - West End Games List〕 In addition fifteen issues of a magazine series, the ''Star Wars Adventure Journal'', were published between 1994 and 1998. The ''Adventure Journal'' was published in novel format of around 280 pages, and consisted of adventures and articles for the game, plus short stories intended to provide inspiration for gamemasters and news relating to ''Star Wars''. WEG's license to produce ''Star Wars'' material was lost after the company declared bankruptcy in 1998, and the license was later picked up by Wizards of the Coast, who held the license until 2010. On 2 August 2011, Fantasy Flight Games announced that they had entered into "comprehensive licensing partnership with Lucasfilm Ltd. for the worldwide rights to publish card, roleplaying, and miniatures games set in the popular ''Star Wars'' universe".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=2528 )〕 ''Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game'' won the Origins Award for ''Best Roleplaying Rules of 1987''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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