About

This is a rewrite of the classic BBS door game Legend of the Red Dragon version 4.00a by Seth Able Robinson.

History

Around 2013 a rewrite was created by The Mystical One (co-sysop of Nuklear Lord).
It fixed many of the bugs in Lord and allowed the game to be customized.
It allowed the server (written in C#) to run on a Linux VM under mono.
Users would be able to run the client directly, or connect to a hosted client on the Linux VM via telnet.
Unfortunately the project slowly died.

As player numbers declined at Nuklear Lord there was talk in the forums about the future of the site.
In early 2019 Nuklear Lord went offline.

Lord is reborn

This is a rewrite of the work done by The Mystical One, a lot of credit goes to Matt as it wouldn't have been possible without his work.
This web based version was rewritten to be connectionless, with a database backend and an ajax frontend.
Special care was taken to make it as close to the original 4.00a experience as possible.

The following is a list of changes made to this rewrite:

• Gold gained is limited per level when killing a player. (team play prevention)
• Gems gained is limited per level when killing a player. (team play prevention)
• Players cannot be duelled unless they agree in river, forest and mist realm. (duel kill prevention)
• Death knight skill damage has been boosted from 3x to 3.3x.
• Rounds automatically reset at midnight when the round has been won.
• Weapon and armour restrictions per level in forest and fire realm. (camping prevention)
• Players on the same IP address cannot attack one another for 30 minutes. (team play prevention)
• Players can not engage in battle with another player who is already in battle. (double kill fix)
• Players cannot enter the realm while engaged in an offline battle with another player. (player left alive fix)
• Players on level 12 are killed by the dragon if they sleep in the inn or fields in forest and fire realms. (camping prevention)
• Players below level 12 who have more than 15 million exp are killed by the dragon in forest and fire realms. (camping prevention)
• Online duel battle look and feel has been made consistent with offline battles.
• Dwarf blackjack event removed from the forest.
• Background colours can no longer be used in the flower garden.
• Blank messages are now cancelled rather than sending a default message.
• Ability to block mail from other players. (harassment prevention)
• Announcements and player fight comments disabled. (spam prevention)
• A new day event will occur for 1 minute at midnight to allow maintenance to run.
• Weak monsters removed from the forest.
• Horse death does 7500 hp damage to the dragon. (early horse kill prevention)
• Inactive players will be resurrected at random times during the day rather than at the start of the day. (timezone advantage prevention)
• Players who have more than 15 million exp can not kill offline players in forest and fire realms. (exp pool depletion prevention)

Realms

River
Free use of weapons and armour regardless of level (camping allowed), no online battles without prior agreement.

Forest
Weapons restricted to certain levels, no online battles without prior agreement, the dragon will kill campers.

Fire
Weapons restricted to certain levels, online battles allowed, the dragon will kill campers.

Mist
Same as River realm but stats outside the game are delayed one day.

Site down?

Generally the site should only be down if the host is having problems, and will come back once they fix their issue.
You can check their status page at http://status.gearhost.com/