Tabletop RPGs

Tabletop role-playing games, tools, and systems with a focus on mechanics, usability, and long-term play value.

Teenagers playing a Star Wars pen-and-paper RPG with character sheets and dice in the 1990s

The First RPG I Ever Played Was Star Wars, and We Were All Dead by Round Three

My first RPG wasn’t a video game. It was a Star Wars pen-and-paper RPG played with dice, character sheets, and imagination. We didn’t own the rulebook, campaigns took months, and by round three, everyone was dead.