Legend of the Red Dragon was created by Seth A. Robinson in the year of 1989 as a bbs (bulletin board system) door game. It was an instant hit! The lastest version that has been released is v.3.55 BUT v.3.56beta is now on Seth's home page in the Beta section.
LoRD grew from a simple fighting door game to a great interactive fight- ing game with IGM (In Game Module) support. This about THE main factor why this game is so widely accepted thoughout the WORLD! Almost no other door game has achived what it has even though there have been great attempts at it.
The basic elements of the game is basiclly fighting and converseing with others. In this game, you can travel into the forest and hunt down something to kill, or pick "S" from the town sqaure and Slaughter other players. You can also travel to other places and enter numrous shops, an INN and a bank.
The Town Square is where most of the stuff to do in the game takes place. What is TS includes is an Inn, a bank, weapons & armour shops, and a training place, owned by Turgon.
| name | cost | stregth |
|---|---|---|
| Stick | 200 | 5 |
| Dagger | 1,000 | 10 |
| Short Sword | 3,000 | 20 |
| Long Sword | 10,000 | 30 |
| Huge Axe | 30,000 | 40 |
| Bone Cruncher | 100,000 | 60 |
| Twin Swords | 150,000 | 80 |
| Power Axe | 200,000 | 120 |
| Able's Sword | 400,000 | 180 |
| Wan's Weapon | 1,000,000 | 250 |
| Spear of Gold | 4,000,000 | 350 |
| Cyrstal Shard | 10,000,000 | 500 |
| Niras's Teeth | 40,000,000 | 800 |
| Blood Sword | 100,000,000 | 1,200 |
| Death Sword | 400,000,000 | 1,800 |
| name | cost | defence |
|---|---|---|
| Coat | 200 | 1 |
| Heavy Coat | 1,000 | 3 |
| Leather Vest | 3,000 | 10 |
| Broze Armour | 10,000 | 15 |
| Iron Armour | 30,000 | 25 |
| Graphite Armour | 100,000 | 35 |
| Erdrick's Armour | 150,000 | 50 |
| Armour of Death | 200,000 | 75 |
| Able's Armour | 400,000 | 100 |
| Full Body Armour | 1,000,000 | 150 |
| Blood Armour | 4,000,000 | 225 |
| Magic Protection | 10,000,000 | 300 |
| Belar's Mail | 40,000,000 | 400 |
| Golden Armour | 100,000,000 | 600 |
| Armour of Lore | 400,000,000 | 1,000 |
The Inn is where you can get a room to spend the night after you get though doing what you done for the day, flirt with the bard or the barmaid, converse with the other players, hear Seth Able the bard sing, or talk to the Bartender.
On another note go to the bartender in town and change your name to these, you will get a little remark:
The bank is the place to store your money. In fact, it's the only place for you to store your money. The current intrest rate is 10%.
The Forest is the place where you go to get your experance and gold pieces. This is also the place where you can find another tavern, find a horse, and other things that can end up helping you on your journey.
To enter the forest from the Town Square, just press "F". Then you can do many things. You can (L)ook for enemies to kill, (V)isit the healer's hut, and (R)eturn to town. If you have a horse, you can also head for the Dark Cloak Tavern.
What enenmy you run into to when you search, is based upon what level you are. For example, as lv.1 you will mainly run into Rude Boy's and Old Men. As lv.12, you'll run into harder to beat enemies. You can run into a enemiy from a lower level then you, but you can never run into a eneimy that's a higher level than you.
The Forest Events make the forest better and more exciting than it would be with out them. These events can get you more gold, experance, hitpoints, or even stregth and defence.
Well Most of you know the JENNIE hint by now don't you? Well if you don't here it is:
Go into the forest and type JENNIE. Then it says "JENNIE? JENNIE Garth? Define Her!"
Here are the things I found that you can say to describe her.
By the way, you need to be in high sprits for this trick to work!
With the lady code, every level you are at the amount of gold you get is 1000 a level so it is more profitable to do babe when you are a low level instead of in the higher levels, where you get 30,000 a fight.
The Other Places area in the town square is a place where IGM's can be installed, which can add play to the game if good enough. See my upcoming IGM faq that.
Press P in attack mode and it will increase your chances of using power move.
Press 2 in the main menu to toggle ANSI.
In 3.25B if you find the fairies you can fly with them by holding down CTRL f l y.
When that old lady comes up to you in the forest and offers to heal you for one gem just say YES!! She gives you 1 extra hit point for half the price of the bartender! This will only work if you have full hit points already.
Use all of your death knight attacks before you end all of your forest fights to get a higher chance of a death knight meeting!
Don't listen to the bard until after 2 forest fights to increase your chance of getting your bank gold doubled.
In the Beginning of the game where it asks you if you want to
enter the realm, List players or quit press "S" for a Story by
seth able. (It's about some freak!)
(Any sysop or player can change the story by editing
LORDTXT.DAT and changing it to whatever!)
(Can not get to work) Go to turgons.. Beat your master and when you
beat him and it goes to the screen that says how many hit points you get
and how much strength you get. When it says
In the main menu (in town) Press "1" to see the game stats. That is a one not an "L". Press the number one.
v.1.20 - (May 1, 1997) Rearranged the faq a bit for the "re"release on May 1st.
v.1.15 - (Jan. 13, 1997) On the HTML version, I added a cool background to it. I also put the border around the weapons and armour listings. And on the faq itself, I added COOL to the list of words for the JENNIE code.
v.1.14 - (Nov. 14, 1996) Added infomation about the forest, and the forest events. Also added infomation about Violet in the Inn area and put the How to rob the Bank in the Bank info and JENNIE code in the forest area. The table of contents has also been modified.
v.1.13 - (Nov. 9, 1996) Created the tables for King Arthur's Weapons and Abdoul's Armour. Also added infomation to the About LoRD section.
v.1.12 - (Nov. 6, 1996) Made the faq a little bit more readable. Added the lines up and down the faq.
v.1.11 - (Nov. 2, 1996) First public release. Everything was new!
This is the last version of the faq, because when the hint and tip page is completed, this will be trashed for good (except I may release a .txt version of the hint and tip page...)
According to Seth's page, he's working on LoRD 4.0 and LORD II:New world. You'll have to ask him about what's up.
Are you a lord related page mantainer? Do you know of any good ones? Tell me!