With this week's announcements by Dungeons & Dragons that they will be bringing us a D&D Star Wars game in 2027, many have asked what of the current official Star Wars TTRPG, currently produced by Edge Studios, having inherited the license from its sister company Fantasy Flight Games in 2020.

Wizards of the Coast--the owners of Dungeons & Dragons--had the license for Star Wars back in the early 2000s, and produced a couple of very successful Star Wars games using the d20 System, which is the engine which powered D&D 3E. In 2010, WotC declined to renew that license, and FFG announced it had picked up the license the year later. Soon followed Star Wars: Edge of Empire, Star Wars: Age of Rebellion, and Star Wars: Force and Destiny, all using the 'narrative dice system' which powered Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (also published by FFG at the time) and which later became the universal Genesys system.

In 2020, the Star Wars license moved to FFG's sister company, Edge Studios. Both companies are owned by Asmodee.

While Edge Studios continued to print and sell the existing Star Wars RPG books, in the six years they've had the license they haven't actually released any new content for it.

And this week, WotC announced that in 2027 there would be a new Dungeons & Dragons powered Star Wars game. Of course, many people immediately asked... what of Edge Studio's Star Wars RPG?

It turns out that Edge has NOT lost the license. The company announced via its Discord server:

We wanted to issue an announcement sharing this news, while also clarifying some of the finer details of the announcement to put misinformation at bay.

Here’s the basic information as announced at Gen Con 2026 from Wizards of the Coast:

With Universes Beyond, we are expanding Dungeons & Dragons into even more worlds we love, like World of Warcraft … Star Wars is coming to Dungeons & Dragons for the first time, bringing the iconic galaxy to our players’ tabletops.​

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Dungeons & Dragons | Star Wars™ collaboration will take place in the Season of Rebellion, coming 2027.​

• This collaboration is part of Dungeons & Dragons new “Universes Beyond” sets. Universe Beyond sets are new to D&D, but are a feature of Wizard’s of the Coast’s other big property Magic: The Gathering.
• Universe Beyond sets are usually single releases, although bigger successes do return. We can imagine a similar set up for D&D.
• This is not a new d20 / 5e based Tabletop RPG.
• EDGE Studios still retains the license for the Star Wars RPG line originally created by FFG.

So, Edge Studios still has the Star Wars license. Whether they intend to use it at any time in the near or distant future remains unknown, given that they haven't put out anything new for Star Wars since they inherited the license from FFG six years ago. In the meantime, it seems likely that WotC's book will be a one-and-done situation, rather than the start of a line of Star Wars/D&D products.