In 1991, Richard Garfield approached Wizards of the Coast with the idea for a new board game called RoboRally, but was turned down because WOTC felt the game would have been too expensive to produce. The 1992 release of The Primal Order, a supplement designed for use with any game system, brought legal trouble with Palladium Books for references to Palladium's game and system.
Originally the company only published role-playing games such as the third edition of Talislanta and its own The Primal Order. The company was named after a guild of wizards from a Dungeons & Dragons campaign Adkison was playing. Wizards of the Coast (or WOTC) was founded by Peter Adkison in 1990 outside Seattle, Washington, and its current headquarters are located in nearby Renton. The company also produced sports cards sets, releasing association football, baseball, basketball and American football series. They have received numerous awards, including several Origins Awards. Wizards of the Coast publishes role-playing games, board games, and collectible card games. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Renton, Washington, part of the Seattle metropolitan area.
It also acquired the popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game by buying TSR and increased its success by publishing the licensed Pokémon Trading Card Game. Originally a role-playing game publisher, the company originated and popularized the collectible card game genre with Magic: The Gathering in the mid-1990s. During a February 2021 reorganization at Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast became the lead part of the new "Wizards and Digital" division. It is currently a subsidiary of Hasbro, which acquired the company in 1999. Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC / ˈ w ɒ t ˌ s iː/ or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games.
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