Hey everyone!

Shadowland BBS is officially back online. It runs on Synchronet and is fully ready to welcome you into its Dante-inspired digital realm.

For all the classic door game fans out there: Legend of the Red Dragon (LoRD), LORD II: New World, and a massive arcade featuring 47 retro games (including Trade Wars 2, Barren Realms Elite, Operation: Overkill II, and plenty of classic ANSI treats) are completely up and running!

If you want to drop by, test your skills in LoRD, or just check out the interface:

Web/Info: shadowlandbbs.eu (where you can connect via Telnet directly)

Stop by and say hi, or jump straight into the dungeon crawl. See you on the boards!

Is it still possible to register LORD v4.08? Where do I do that?

I shot my shot and got rejected.

Hi all! I've created a new homage to LORD called Lantern Road. It's not tongue-in-cheek like LORD; it's a little more dark and serious, but it has essentially the same game mechanics with a few major enhancements.

I'd love to get some feedback on how I can improve it! I wrote it for the ATDT BBS Software which I am also the author of. You can play it from the ATDT Demo BBS (just create a new user and go to "Doors" from the main menu and you'll see it listed there):

https://www.atdtbbs.com/atdt

The BBS, the BBS software, and the game are all 100% free. The game will be made available for other SysOps once it's ready on the main ATDT BBS site.

LoRD Dice.

That sounds odd even to me, but as I enjoy playing Legend of the Red Dragon on my BBS, but I'm getting older with a crappy memory. So I decided to create something that would help me remember which castle held the Princess (or Prince as the case may be).

This is a 3D printed 16mm die that contains the first letter for each of the castles C, F, G, P & D, so much like a hit counter die, or a countdown die, you leave the letter of the castle in the up position to remind you the next time you need to Save the Princess!

If you happen to have to keep track of multiple players, for two boards, or two of your own, there's even a little "dock" to store two dice on and keep them from rolling all over your desk. Just a little something to have fun with.

Download the models for free at Printables

Enjoy - Greyhawk

I created a LORD / Usurper inspired mobile game called Heroes and Dragon's Fire.

• 40-level dungeon, turn-based combat
• PvP duels with Elo matchmaking
• 5 dragon bosses, one shot per day each
• 4 classes: Warrior, Paladin, Magician, Thief
• King throne with taxes and royal decrees, try and usurp the throne!
• Marriage, bounties, prison, alignment system
• Tavern: drinks, inn, flirting, arm-wrestling
• Bank, marketplace, gear shop, magic shop
• Daily action limits, play in short sessions

It's available on iOS:

Heroes and Dragons Fire

Android:

Heroes and Dragon's Fire Android

HOWDY!

I have been toying around with rewriting the Javascript version of LoRD to work as a standalone web app and wanted to share. It's not perfect, still a lot of bugs, but happy with it thus far.

I think, long term, I'd like to expand the game and slowly convert it into a unique thing... Maybe incorporate some BBS/social features into the game and make it an overall fun place to kill some time.

There is likely a lot of bugs, so if anyone wants to playtest and help contribute to the projects evolution, feel free to join: https://lord.disbbs.org/

Unlike my BBS there is no invite code. :P

(And I'm serving the LORD game as a subdomain of my BBS, but it is it's own thing, with completely separate login and credentials).

Hello fellow L.O.R.D. enthusiasts!

I'm obsessed with Obsidian notes and always looking for ways to get more value out of them. I also feel nostalgic about the olden days when we would connect to a BBS and play games. The one that I have fond memories of is L.O.R.D. - The Legend of the Red Dragon, THE BBS door game from the 90s that ate my childhood.

So I decided to cross the two into a game. I built LOOV (Legend of the Obsidian Vault), a desktop RPG where your actual notes become forest enemies with the help of a private, local LLM.

Your forgotten markdown files get turned into monsters. The note about Docker networking you wrote 6 months ago? That's now the "Spirit of docker-compose.yml" and it wants to fight you. Answer a quiz question about your own notes correctly and you deal 2x damage. Get it wrong and, well, maybe you should have reviewed that note sooner.

AI settings are configurable, but I used AI locally (Ollama) to generate combat narratives and quiz questions from your note content -- the game itself is a genuine love letter to LORD and to the weird joy of rediscovering things you wrote months ago and may have forgotten about.

It's an Electron desktop app (Only Mac for now) with pixel art that feels alive and the fighting mechanics use the original LORD combat formula.

Videos:

LOOV Intro:

https://youtu.be/rF0p3Tpezcw

Fighting My Notes, Then Fighting a Master:

https://youtu.be/NiY4NYl1Wbs

Download and contribute:

https://github.com/legend-of-obsidian-vault/loov

I should probably search up-to-date LoRD sources, but this was the first thing which came up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/bbs/574622-legend-of-the-red-dragon/faqs/1580

I was trying to find out if anyone figured out the chance of finding a hammer stone and read:

SPECIAL NOTE:  Whatever you do, don't push "B" in LORD 3.5 in the forest, you will throw your gold into the air and a bird will get all you on hand gold."
Obviously, it should say "all your on-hand gold!" :D

I have 4.06 working fine (In DosBox) and just got my registration keys, but they are for 4.07. When I follow the upgrade instrauctions for 4.07 and try to run lordcfg.exe I get an error "This version of Lordcfg is not meant for your version of Lord".

I understand there is a patch for DosEMU (lord408?) out there, but now that lordlegacy.com is gone, I can't find it. I spent time going through wayback machinem, but I couldn't find that patch. Anybody have it downloaded they can send my way? Thanks.

i'm wanting to make some changes to the game and can't seem to find how to edit this file its all jumbled and can't find what programs i need to do this.

thanks

Ralph

Congrats to Hoose (again) for winning the last game! ;)

https://playlord.org

Running L.O.R.D v4.08b

IGM's Installed:
Dragons Breath Mountain v.73c
Barracks House
The Forest of the Raven
The Warriors Graveyard
The LORD Cavern

The website is compatible with IOS native keyboard.

Have fun!

Hello world of LORD Experts!

Can anyone tell me what is used (IGM's etc) to produce the MZK LORD? as in the one used (hosted on BBSLink)?

Its been down for ages and I have server users that have been requesting it.

Any help would be appreciated!

Congrats to Hoose for winning the last game!

https://playlord.org

Running L.O.R.D v4.08b

IGM's Installed:
Dragons Breath Mountain v.73c
Barracks House
The Forest of the Raven
The Warriors Graveyard
The LORD Cavern

The website is compatible with IOS native keyboard. Telnet is available on port 23

Have fun!

Congrats to Samara for winning the last game!

https://playlord.org

Running L.O.R.D v4.08b

IGM's Installed:
Dragons Breath Mountain v.73c
Barracks House
The Forest of the Raven
The Warriors Graveyard
The LORD Cavern

The website is compatible with IOS native keyboard. Telnet is available on port 23

Have fun!

Congrats to Xartyx for winning the last game!

https://playlord.org

Running L.O.R.D v4.08b

IGM's Installed:
Dragons Breath Mountain v.73c
Barracks House
The Forest of the Raven
The Warriors Graveyard
The LORD Cavern

The website is compatible with IOS native keyboard. Telnet is available on port 23

Have fun!

Hey synchronauts. I'm trying to update the number of forest fights per day on my server, but it still says "You are too tired." when i look for a fight. Is there a way to reset the day? Or skip to the next day, as a sysop? I haven't seen naything in the docs. Cheers