 Wizards of the Coast was founded by Peter Adkison in 1990 just outside Seattle , Washington , and its current headquarters are located in nearby Renton . Originally the company only published role @-@ playing games such as the third edition of <unk> and its own The Primal Order . The 1992 release of The Primal Order , a supplement designed for use with any game system , brought legal trouble with Palladium Books suing for references to Palladium 's game and system . The suit was settled in 1993 . 
