From the back cover: The Primal Order(TM) reigns supreme. Also known as TPO, The Primal Order is the premeire resource for using religions and deities effectively and creatively in roleplaying games. Explore how deities gain power, learn why they need worshipers and temples, discover why they provide their priests with spells, and much more. TPO also offers detailed guidelines for the creation of artifacts, suggesting strategies for their design and use. Heralded since its initial release as one of the most innovative and useful roleplaying supplements ever published, TPO is an invaluable tool for campaign development. Get ready--your roleplaying experience is about to be transformed!

This is the sound-off thread for anyone interested in the The Primal Order, the first printing of which included rules that Palladium Books claimed it owned in a lawsuit back in the 90’s.**

If you’ve played the game or are interested in learning about it, drop a simple post here.

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** inadvertently leading to the creation of a hobby gaming company so rich that, when the publisher of the world’s largest TTRPG went out of business about a decade later, they simply bought it, hired top talent to revise it, and published it under an intentionally perpetual and non-deauthorizable Open Gaming License so that anybody who had a mind to could publish material for it, FOREVER. Today, just about everybody plays or has played that game or one of its offshoots, and only a few grognards even remember Palladium.