LORD was a successful game, and by 1993 many BBSs had active communities of players. After the first sale, word-of-mouth advertising increased its popularity. Initially only intended to run on his own BBS, Robinson eventually received offers from users who wanted to run it on other systems. Eventually LORD became a mixture of action and romance. Over time, Robinson incorporated features that he had seen work well in other games: for example, the restricted number of turns per day, and the concept of random events.
The first version of LORD only featured the chatting and flirting systems. As he did not have access to other door games such as Trade Wars, he needed something that would occasionally bring people back to the BBS. Robinson began to write LORD in Pascal to run on his bulletin board system. LORD was created by Seth Robinson of Robinson Technologies and is currently maintained by Michael Preslar.
