# LoRD - text based adventuring !!

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 20, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-text-based-adventuring/812808 "2018-04-20T18:43:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![gren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@gren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gren)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-text-based-adventuring/812808/1 "2018-04-20T18:43:56Z")

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**Legend of the Red Dragon** , LoRD.

Does anyone still play it? Did anyone addictively wait for midnight to play the next days moves? Did you ever _get_ the bar maid?

I _ **loved** _ that game and am very happy to see it still running all over the net…

Are there any other games of the era you loved?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-text-based-adventuring/812808/2 "2018-04-20T19:06:34Z")

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Moved to the Game Room.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-text-based-adventuring/812808/3 "2018-04-21T11:55:46Z")

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Wow, now that game is a blast from the past. I remember dialing up a local BBS (Moonbase Alpha, you were the best) to play that on a daily basis back in 1993. I’m not sure I have the patience to play a door game like that nowadays, particularly without having people at my middle school to talk to every morning about the progress I’ve made.

I remember really loving Baron Realms Elite, Solar Realms, and Trade Wars as games in that sort of vein as being really fun, but nothing beat LoRD. There was another dungeon crawler door game that I remember liking almost as much as (even more than?) LoRD, but its name escapes me.

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**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-text-based-adventuring/812808/4 "2018-04-21T18:43:00Z")

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Trade Wars - OMG! That was great fun. Some of the other faculty setup a BBS for that back in…I don’t know 1990?

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-text-based-adventuring/812808/5 "2018-04-21T20:17:01Z")

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It’s still available for play at [http://lord.lordlegacy.com/](http://lord.lordlegacy.com/)

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-text-based-adventuring/812808/6 "2018-04-27T01:48:06Z")

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> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> It’s still available for play at [http://lord.lordlegacy.com/](http://lord.lordlegacy.com/)

Odd, that address will not resolve with Google’s DNS servers, but it will with Cox’s. (I usually use Google because Cox hijacks invalid URLs.)