The Role Playing Game Association, also known as RPGA, was an organized play association founded in 1980, most notably known for it's Living City program.
History[]
RPGA was originally founded by TSR, Inc. as a way to promote their products by creating a "club for role-playing gamers". The person assigned to this task and the eventual founder of the association, was Frank Mentzer, one of TSR's first full-time employees. Among the systems used in the first organized plays was AD&D.
The plays proved to be a very popular concept with the RPG community. The longest running one was Living City (originally started in 1987), while the one that attracted the largest amount of players over it's lifespan was Living Greyhawk.
The "living campaigns" organized by the association were the first of its kind, and the format of the universe being shared between all the players in different sessions became the main inspiration for MMORPG games.
In 2010, RPGA began to run the D&D Encounters program, which later was continued by the Adventurers League, which effectively replaced the Role Playing Game Association in 2014.
List of Programs[]
The following programs ran by RPGA took place in the Realms:
- Living City
- Living Forgotten Realms
- Sarbreenar the Living City
- Legacy of the Green Regent
- Living Death
- Living Jungle
- D&D Encounters
Appendix[]
External link[]
Role Playing Game Association article at Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.