How'd you find LotGD? [Archive]

Mitsuko

03-26-2004, 08:48 AM

Booger

03-26-2004, 11:04 AM

someone made a post about his server on an asheron's call forum and I checked out the site. first thing I did was to read the about LotGD page and found the link to the central server there. I decided to try the game out on central since it had more players and I've been hooked ever since.

Deimos

03-26-2004, 12:02 PM

Google catergories. Search for Web Based RPG's or some such.

LadyPhoenix

03-26-2004, 01:43 PM

JT (MoonChilde) posted in the InkTank forums that he had a server up for the game and *poof* I was there. I had just that evening remarked to my DH how much I missed LoRD. :)

JCP

03-26-2004, 02:25 PM

JT (MoonChilde) posted in the InkTank forums that he had a server up for the game and *poof* I was there. I had just that evening remarked to my DH how much I missed LoRD. :)

poof? :shock:

LadyPhoenix

03-26-2004, 07:27 PM

It was like magic, it happened so quickly. :)

MrEccentric

03-26-2004, 07:59 PM

Ahh, now I remember how it all started...
One day, long time ago, I've found a game called "Dink Smallwood" and I liked it...
Some time later, I decided to check out the "Dink Smallwood" website, and there I've found one more game I liked, it was called "Funeral Quest"...
"Funeral Quest", a good game, and it allways have some cool links, one of these links have send me to LOGD Central Server, And was love at frist sight...
So I created my no titled and not yet mad, MrEccentric...
I'm not thinking that anyone of you would care to now all this things, but for me, was cool to remember how it all started...

Angul

03-26-2004, 11:50 PM

I played text warrior and one day all that popped up was a link to this site. Been playing it ever since.

FanboyElric

03-27-2004, 01:49 AM

I was curious who this MightyE person was and what he was doing with the rest of his computing and so I followed links over from RealLifeComics SETI at work team...

Shandra

03-27-2004, 08:56 PM

I played the original LORD, oh so long ago, and when a friend of mine sent me a link to LotGD, I was hooked...

AlleyKat

03-27-2004, 09:20 PM

I browsed into it on SourceForge early December.

MightyE

04-01-2004, 07:51 AM

Mitsuko

04-01-2004, 09:39 AM

It was one of those side ad-boxes that show related stuff, but more off to the side and general. Yeah, it was there.

elinre

04-02-2004, 07:33 AM

my husband was playing with web-based games and set up LotGD on his home server... he asked me to test it and i got addicted in just a couple days... then he started on another project and never had the server up and running... i thought i should stop bugging him about giving me MY game back :wink:

anyway, so i went to google and looked for LotGD... and lo and behold, there was the central server!

calandra

04-03-2004, 04:36 AM

My husband (Zerohour) used to run a BBS and was searching for BBS games, etc on Sourceforge to set up a "retro" bbs for fun. He found LOTGD, told me about it and the rest is history.

Yes we still run a telnet BBS and yes we still run that "other" lord game but it's not as much fun as LOTGD though it takes far less time to play :D

Sktim

04-04-2004, 06:01 PM

I hang out at a forum for Diablo 1. One of the posters there found this place and posted a link, that was a year or so ago. Oh yeah I gotta get back there. ;p

/me wisks away to d1 forum.

feahyarmen

04-11-2004, 10:59 PM

SourceForge shows the most active projects. One of those days I was browsing to see what's new, and I found this open source game. I was highly intrigued about the presence in SF of the beloved mixture of "Open Source" and "Game" (I was used to play Angband), and I decided to test it for just one day, or at last 2 days, but strictly nothing more 'cause I was (and still are) very busy.

Now I'm not able to remember how many months ago I became God!

Peace

04-18-2004, 09:39 AM

I was searching on Google for a game that I could get to from school and the ad was on the side. I clicked on it and viola! Here you guys were. It was an older server though and then someone said there was a new one, so I tried it. Eventually, the old one got blocked from school, but the new one, Central, is still going on, and so shall I! ^.^

Actually this post is mainly about this quote.
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger. That which does kill you makes you dead."

Actually, alot of things that don't kill you make you weaker. Eating raw pork can kill you if it has the worm eggs but if it doesn't it will leave you much weaker and in alot of pain. If AIDS doesn't kill you it makes you weaker. Actually what doesn't kill you makes you weaker is more often than not accurate.

Mitsuko

04-18-2004, 01:19 PM

Peace

04-19-2004, 08:47 AM

Actually this post is mainly about this quote.
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger. That which does kill you makes you dead."

Actually, alot of things that don't kill you make you weaker. Eating raw pork can kill you if it has the worm eggs but if it doesn't it will leave you much weaker and in alot of pain. If AIDS doesn't kill you it makes you weaker. Actually what doesn't kill you makes you weaker is more often than not accurate.

O.O() Peace, you enjoy contradicting everything, don't you? There is an old saying that says "That which does not kill you makes you stronger." I just added to it...And don't you think you went a bit off topic, just to pick on my signature?

As for the topic it is a little mundane don't you think. Like there is going to be some exciting story of how someone got to this site.
I was playing it one a different site that took it down and is now called the Infektion web site. So, I searched with msn and found the link to central server.

JCP

04-19-2004, 08:56 AM

As for the topic it is a little mundane don't you think. Like there is going to be some exciting story of how someone got to this site.
I was playing it one a different site that took it down and is now called the Infektion web site. So, I searched with msn and found the link to central server.

Mundane for you, very interesting market research for me.

The best way to know how to get new players is to figure out where the current ones come from.

Peace

04-19-2004, 09:17 AM

Phontocules

05-05-2004, 11:37 AM

I'm an Inkie. Where ever they go, I will follow. Besides, I got nothing better to do. :)

Ankerias

05-06-2004, 08:14 AM

Heard it through the grapevine...

I was at a LAN party where a couple of guys played it and I vaguely remembered playing LORD back when I was 12-ish so I kind of knew what it was. After I got home I searched the website. And now I'm pretty much hooked.

Sholva

05-06-2004, 02:08 PM

Imperiumi board had a discussion concerning these addictive little games over the Internet. There I found this "addiction" :)

MightyE

05-06-2004, 06:32 PM

Imperiumi board had a discussion concerning these addictive little games over the Internet. There I found this "addiction" :)
And so another brick in my evil plan was laid down. Muahahahaha

Zhamel

05-06-2004, 09:55 PM

Some MUDing friends talked me into trying EverQuest and joining their guild. I was in Peace By Force briefly with MightyE. As it happens, real life took more of my time and I stopped playing EQ. I still went back to the guild site every now and then. Started looking around and found that he made this game. Looked interesting so I started playing.

PhreakWently

05-11-2004, 08:12 PM

I went from Lords of Legend, there was a link to a mirror site (which i can no longer remember)

from there i did a google search for "Legend of the green dragon" and it sent me to lotgd.net and from there i wondered why i couldn't log in ! :)

KhalidTheMighty

05-13-2004, 04:34 PM

a friend told me about it 8)

kingantipas

05-23-2004, 09:28 AM

The sourceforge most active projects rankings (a good few positions above one of my own projects! ;)

Odyssey

05-23-2004, 10:08 AM

Twist

05-24-2004, 05:21 PM

I found it when it got slashdotted in early 2003. A friend of mine and I had played LORD on BBSs so he thought I might be interested. He played a bit and lost interest, but I have played so much that I now have a God on all three main servers! (central, alpha, dragoncat). And a little while back I became an admin on MightyE's alpha server.

Jariyah

05-25-2004, 08:40 AM

One of my EQ guildies discovered it while bored at work one day. He posted a link on our DBs and several of us headed for sourceforge to check it out.

Of the half dozen or so that tried it out, I think I'm the only one still playing.

BoarVolk

05-25-2004, 08:20 PM

One of my mates from uni walked in one day, and said "Oi, try this out"..... so then there was about 10 of us playing it. slowly the numbers shrank, until there was one (even i left) but eventually i came back and have been for a month or so. Every now and then, we find new pawns to add to our referrals, but they rarely make a second DK.

jrminga

05-26-2004, 07:41 AM

the website i write for had an article on this game; one of the writers talked enthusiastically about it, and having been an old-time LORD player, i had to join up.

cactus

05-26-2004, 10:28 AM

I search for a RPG on-line game and used a lot of "family friend filters"... the "free" word was included in the search :wink:

RayAkaLapsi

06-03-2004, 05:30 AM

I't wasn't long a go when I found this place. It hasn't yeat been even moth of it. My boyfriend told me about this game when I asked if he knows some good games that even me learn to play :wink:

And here I am. Totaly hooked.

Kanilek

06-04-2004, 04:59 PM

A moderator named Dennist posted a link to this game, I tried it, and I liked it! :mrgreen:

I recommend this game, it's GREAT!! :lol:

GOLD

06-04-2004, 06:56 PM

Pure Fluke, searching for free RPG games![/img]

Howman2004

06-04-2004, 09:33 PM

I played (and still play) LORD on the BBSes. I first got into the game back in '94, it is one of my favorite games to this day.

I stumbled across LotGD, by doing a seach for a web-based LORD. I am in the process of putting up a website, and really wanted to offer a way to play the game.

Thank you for creating this, and making this under the GPL!

Here here!! i used to play ALL the time on the BBS's...recently my friend with whom i used to play with were talkni about it, and did a search, and viola! here i am...

Now if i can only find BRE again.... (you old BBSers would know!)

Talisman

06-04-2004, 11:12 PM

BRE! Let us know if you find it...I still have to dig through my old disks, but I'm not holding out much hope...

Darkwielder

06-10-2004, 05:29 AM

from a friend that hasn't registered yet... as it seems... he may register as Slaytanicdiabolo or Dankantheslaytanicpriest... where he find out about it I don't know

Mitsuko

06-11-2004, 04:42 PM

from a friend that hasn't registered yet... as it seems... he may register as Slaytanicdiabolo or Dankantheslaytanicpriest... where he find out about it I don't know

But, I've seen SlaytanicDiabolo before...Are you sure he's not registered already?

RayAkaLapsi

06-12-2004, 03:53 PM

I have seen SlaytanicDiabolo too.. :?:

Vode Andreas

06-13-2004, 03:12 AM

I've seen players with both names on Central

Alexiel

06-22-2004, 07:22 PM

I was looking for good RPG games and, this just popped up! I am happy with this game!

Howman2004

06-22-2004, 08:07 PM

Still no luck on BRE....all i found was a site where i can buy it, but i don't have the capability to serve and let people play on it and crap.

Lurker

06-25-2004, 04:01 PM

I found out about LotGD about 5 months ago when my friend kept annoying me with the message:

"An old man hits you with his ugly stick. He gasps, as you are uglier then his stick!"

Hehe....that will never get old.

Kagura

06-30-2004, 04:11 AM

I was playing KingsofChaos, this Alliance I belong to hosted LOTGD on their server. I played there for sometime, enjoyed it. They took it off their site for some time, so I came to the central server

sativ

06-30-2004, 06:06 AM

hi there, my first post here. (thanks for activating, mightye!)
i found lotgd when i played "smack the pingu"... the game where you play baseball with a penguin ya know... :lol:
anyways, this server also had a lotgd version... i played on that server for a few days untill i found out the url of the central server. i did not want to play on lotgd.com because it has way too many gamedays...

Jesus

06-30-2004, 10:50 AM

www.sourceforge.com :wink:

blarg

06-30-2004, 01:55 PM

I was reading slashdot where a thread drifted off into something about BBSes of yore and someone posted a link to lotgd.net.. Feeling nostalgic, I tried it out and got hooked!

TRC

07-09-2004, 03:28 AM

I was talking with a workmate about good old days of LoRD and we came up with LotGD. Then I tried a finnish server and liked this and moved amongst the dwellers of lotgd.net.

Hypatia

07-12-2004, 03:37 PM

Hotone, who is in my KoC alliance said he was playing this other game, and not being all that attached to KoC, I tried out LotGD and I like it.

echucker

07-31-2004, 11:29 AM

I was reading slashdot where a thread drifted off into something about BBSes of yore and someone posted a link to lotgd.net.. Feeling nostalgic, I tried it out and got hooked!

I did something similar... I know I saw it on slashdot, but don't remember if it was in a comment or sig.

elondria

08-11-2004, 07:25 PM

I actually linked over from LoL, and as a LORD player years ago I have fallen hopelessly in love with this game! :D

Syrius

08-12-2004, 03:24 AM

Was playing another browser game and asked a fellow player if there were any good games I could find. I was then kindly given the LOTGD name, searched for it and voila! I was here.

Maugrim_The_Reaper

08-13-2004, 04:22 AM

Well, I develop two PHP games myself. LOTGD was pretty impossible to miss on Sourceforge...:)

Started playing more seriously as Paladius on Dragoncat a few months back - now that I actually have free time from work...

Valheru

08-25-2004, 02:11 PM

www.Pixel2Life.com has a server running, got the Central website link from the info and now I play here.

Crim

08-27-2004, 04:05 PM

www.Pixel2Life.com has a server running, got the Central website link from the info and now I play here.http://www.pixel2life.com/logd/

Shiqra

08-30-2004, 03:27 PM

I did a Google search for "Legend of the Green Dragon" after I had used up all my forest fights on my EQ guildie's server and was still jonesing for more LotGD.

Am STILL addicted!!! :D

Wench

10-02-2004, 10:57 AM

Was over eq for the day so decided to clean out bookmarks..
I found this link from a link to flowers of happiness. Never bothered to check it until now.. Many fond memories of my BBS days playing LORD on dodgy old pc :P

sativ

10-02-2004, 06:22 PM

i was playing "smack the pingu" on henrilouma.net (or what ever the url was...)
they had a lotgd server running... with a link to the lotgd.net central server. ;)

Ragnarok

10-07-2004, 07:46 AM

A guy that posts on a forum that I frequent for a game called Escape Velocity Nova (anyone heard of it?) had played this game, and led me to my first server, and I found the others by myself when I found that just one server couldn't feed my fix.

SapphireShadow

10-21-2004, 07:38 PM

I was playing on Excalibre or something like that and there was a link on that RPG so I clicked and voila! :D

Ithilden

11-10-2004, 09:35 AM

My good buddy Angul showed me about a year and three months ago, been unable to leave since.

Sailok

11-10-2004, 10:52 PM

I was referred by a buddy on the Ruins of Filgaia Forums.

Yang (duh)

11-16-2004, 04:48 PM

I saw a post in mmorpg's section at Gamehavoc and decided to check it out.

zaphod

12-03-2004, 04:39 AM

I used to play red dragon years ago and went looking for it for a bit of a reminice and found this in good ole' Google. Haven't looked back. :D

Acemaster

12-08-2004, 05:48 PM

Friend told me about it, I didn't know his server, so I googled it and found Central. Turns out he's on some obscure server run by a guy named Tristan (very big server though). They have so many cool features, but the game is so unbalanced that my friend can dk in 15 minutes. :?

YurianStonebow

12-17-2004, 08:52 PM

This is how I ended up here. During support training for my company's baby account, I was using the free internet access to surf for information on the account's other products when my coworker next to me chuckled. His buddy asked him what he was playing and the first guy answered "Oh, some old school text based RPG on the web," and I went "Wha?" I snuck a peek, saw the URL, and so here I am. I never even heard of LORD. This was back in early September.

God Valxirion

12-18-2004, 01:50 PM

I saw this game promoted on a forum and I decided to check it out, that was some time ago and I didnt liked it, that was the old lotgd with only one village, all mounts avaible at any DK, and I believe the best creature to buy was a wyvern, the inn already was included, and the stables, seth and violet and the rest I cant remember, there also was a god with 30Dks with the bio: If you happen to be a farmie please attack me as i'm very rich, if he still plays I wonder what his DK-amount is, but not to get stuck in talk about the old times, I stopped after a while (farmer lvl 3 or 4) but a month ago i wanted to play again and now I think it's very fun, but I didn't understood it a year ago, I found level 1 easy but after it it became harder (just as now), and after your first DK it becomes alot easier especially thanks to the better mounts

Arillius

12-23-2004, 10:44 PM

Mine was much the same as Valxirion, was playing a cheaper version when my 10 year old asked to play one day. He did a Google to find it and started playing. But his version was nicer with more towns and features and I went, Whoa! Where's this?
Needless to say, I jumped ship ASAP and have been with the Central server ever since. Beside, the conversations and personalities are a lot more colorful :wink: .

Indigo

01-08-2005, 07:33 AM

A friend of mine that I rp with kept saying you have to check this out. So I looked and went eh.. it's a GAME ... He was like but it's fun just try it ... so I went to create a character but the name I have used for years was taken so that was it. No silly GAME for Me especially since I couldnt even have my own name. Then he tried bribery ... I get perks if I refer enough people ... so I picked a name that was close enough. I'd suffer so he could have his silly perks ... after all what's 4 levels compared to a friendship. So what ??? Someplace it became interesting and I got My first DK a couple days ago ... now you all are stuck with Me

onedarkdemon1

01-10-2005, 06:31 PM

the way i found legend of the green dragon was by typing on google
free multiplayer online games and that took me to a site with about all of them I saw some games but they didnt look that interesting then i saw this and tried it mostly im not a text adventure guy but this game is to hard to refuse so i thank you

Prinncess

01-12-2005, 01:26 PM

I love everything to do with Lotgd and things, Brilliant sites evertone! :D

Kaiun

01-25-2005, 03:55 PM

I was trying to find a game in Google directory that the evil school computers didn't block and this was the only one I found...now I'm addicted :twisted:

tlvox

01-29-2005, 09:42 AM

hmm, well I was looking for a version of LOrD that you could play on the internet for free, and I was having no luck, but then I stumbled upon your game, and absolutely fell in love. I'm no good at coming up with good rpg names, though, but oh well.

Rob

Taarna

02-05-2005, 06:02 PM

I normally play UO, and since I have moved to New England, all games and software are hidden in storage. I searched around for free RPG I could play while looking for a job and came across the Legend of the Green Dragon. Played for a day, then remained offline for a day. When I decided I wanted to play again, I could not remember the name of the sight. Thus, going to Yahoo search and typing in the name of the game... I came up with lotgd.net. Was this the same? I was sure it was. It wasn't, but I decided I liked this one much better than the other. Any difference? I doubt it, but this one is much more interesting than the other by far!

Kasmira

02-18-2005, 10:50 PM

A friend of mine from another RPG game/forum mentioned it to me and I had to check it out. That game/forum was The Abyss City. I also play Gothador and Vampires the Dark Alleyway.

ShadowBane

02-22-2005, 01:35 PM

I found it through a friend who had it running on his forum, and decided to install on me and a friends forum.

Oblivion

02-23-2005, 01:55 AM

I was looking for some MUDs on the Gentoo.org forums when I came across LotGD. Since then, I've stopped playing MUDs and just play LotGD.

Earmak

03-02-2005, 03:36 PM

I found lotgd on:
http://www.marktaw.com/blog/ACompleteWasteOfTime.html

A good source for distraction.

Kadina

03-08-2005, 08:07 AM

I was browsing the the devshed php forum (http://forums.devshed.com) as I do most every day and someone ( I dont remember who) had a link to central in their sig. Being an avid EQ/DAoC/WoW (and Swords of Chaos long ago on a BBS) player, I couldnt resist clicking that link to check it out.

I set up a server on my site so I could play with the admin features and perhaps gain a bit more understanding on how the game works, but my play character is on Central, because its just more fun with alot of people.

WWWWolf

03-08-2005, 09:09 AM

I think I saw a signature in Slashdot that mentioned the game, so I tried it.

Yet, I think, ages ago, I had stumbled on LotGD by accident or something, but for some reason I had decided to ignore it at that time. (My memory is kind of hazy, but the point is, I *had* heard of it vaguely before I saw the sig in /....) When I got there the second time, I just couldn't joining :) I had played LoRD ages ago in a BBS (not very far though), and was completely amazed by LotGD's faithful-yet-modern approach.

(Using my second character at lotgd.net now - the first one kind of expired, funny that...)

trefalgo

03-20-2005, 09:06 AM

I found on ebaums world as a link and i have played browser RPGS before

Acemaster

03-21-2005, 09:30 AM

Wow... we must be getting pretty popular if Ebaum likes us.

BLOODDRAGON

03-21-2005, 12:45 PM

Wow... we must be getting pretty popular if Ebaum likes us.

But Ebuam also has some pretty wierd stuff though so...

Valiant

03-26-2005, 09:16 PM

I found this thanks to a gaming site. netnexus.com It had a form of LotGD on it. But this LotGD has much more features than it did. The only time I could play it was at school and soon it got blocked and I looked for a new way to play it and found lotgd.net and thank the lord I did. :D

Ithilden

03-28-2005, 08:14 PM

I said last time a year and three months ago was when I startd. well that was awhile back and guess what...I'm still here. Cant get rid of me easily, that for sure. to date I've played this game through 13 total moves, my entire senior school year, one extremely awful relationship and the start of a recent new one, quiting one job, losing another and now the job I have now, and the finding and losing of my mind multiple times. This is about the only part of my life that has been stable.

Iddi

03-30-2005, 12:51 PM

I first heard about it from a friend whose nick name is q_werty (yeah, I know many people have this as their nick), you might have heard about him, I heard he was big when he played. I don't think he plays anymore though, that was about a year and a half ago.

Eris

04-05-2005, 12:26 PM

About a year ago, I worked at a cemetery in California as a gravesite salesperson. During my free time(there was a lot of dead time, as it were), I would go to underworked dot com, a site for productivity-lessening. that's where I found LotGD. I'm not sure if I'm playing on the server I used then, but...Who cares? I'm having Mucho Fun-o.
:)

Johnni

05-26-2005, 02:54 AM

One day i had to learn for exams, so i browsed web and by some accident i found myself playing LOTGD :D

SharDeNayMerLow

05-30-2005, 01:59 AM

I run a web hosting network, and received an application from someone who wanted to run an LoGD site on our servers. I checked out LoGD, remembered my BBS/MUD-playing days from the late 80's and early 90's and joined up.

Knuckles

05-31-2005, 12:48 PM

i played it a looooong time ago on a BBS... everyone remebers those right?

well out of no where a buddy of mine is like "remember lord"?... and sent me a link... so cool!

Tarquinn

05-31-2005, 01:05 PM

I was such a technophobe.... :shock: until I got the flu and was forced to slump over a keyboard for two weeks feeling too sorry for myself to concentrate on anything else. I'd just finished the Otherland series by tad Williams, which is all about RP basically, so was inspired to idly type that into Google. What came up? Now I seem to be on more than off. :? *shrug* 'tis all good. LG seems to have such a great bunch of people.

arakron

06-02-2005, 07:55 PM

Someone on the forums from a MUD I play made a thread about this. I tried it, and it seems like a lot of fun though I'll probably get bored in about 2 weeks due to the overwhelming awesomeness of said MUD.
Anyone else here play Achaea? www.achaea.com, the -best-, and most immersive and complex MUD out there. Definitely the most developed combat system out there. Check it out, you'll never leave :D *shameless advertisement*

Waugh

06-03-2005, 12:34 AM

A mate who was running Lotgd on his server, I got bored of the game quickly, and started visiting others. The sheer number of people on Central kept me...

Marcus

06-03-2005, 10:47 AM

Skaak

06-04-2005, 03:31 AM

I've been looking for a good free browser-based RPG for a long time, and although I love Kingdom of Loathing (http://www.kingdomofloathing) I wasn't completely satisfied for some reason (might have been the effort that KoL can take; it can be a lot of reading and often really counterintuitive). Did a Google search, trolled through some truly horrible games that were high up on certain alphabetical lists of browser RPGs, and finally stumbled across LotGD.

I've only been on for a few days (maybe as much as a week), but I'm loving it; it totally hooked me for some reason. I still visit KoL for the haiku chat (now that college is out for me and I have time to do so), but LotGD is definitely my online game of choice, and I think it will last much better through the time crunch that schoolwork can create.

As far as finding it goes, though, it definitely wasn't very high up on the Google search list. Perhaps an addition to the about pages that talks about what in-game is like? Might help, might not.

jaydude

06-15-2005, 05:45 PM

I found it through netnexus.com . They got a old-ish type version there, I think.

Sire

06-22-2005, 03:40 AM

I used to run a BBS (Prestige BBS) in the days when the Web was insignificant. I used to have L.O.R.D on it and it was very popular, so when I went from a Sysop to a Webmaster I wondered if Seth had a version for my website. I did a search and voila. I actually wrote an IGM for L.O.R.D, if I ever get time i might tackle anopther one.

Snoopymcc

06-22-2005, 11:38 AM

My brother sent me the link and I checked it out, but didn't join. The next day I decided I wanted to play but somehow ended up on the central server when I tried to find the site again. I am glad I found the "wrong" site!! I love all the people here!

Mileena

06-27-2005, 11:57 AM

I found it on www.pointlesssites.com

KVB

06-27-2005, 04:11 PM

Its not pointless..............

I typed in free MMORPG on Google and after searching thorugh about 10000 sites, I finally found one I really liked!

Amaya81085

06-28-2005, 01:37 PM

My husband told me about it

Valancy

07-17-2005, 08:47 AM

tasty. :wink:

Fritz

07-17-2005, 03:43 PM

A co-worker told me about it and I started playing it. He went on to a different on-line game while I stayed where the fun is. I love it here!

Go, <AVAST>!!! Yaarrrr!!

Karant

07-21-2005, 10:55 AM

allyourbaseonline.com

Pwyll

07-22-2005, 08:05 AM

Hm, I really thought I had already put my story here, but I guess not...

I used to kill my coffee break by playing an online version of Yahtzee. One day I went to that page and got this message:

"Oops! We can't find the page you're looking for, but here's something else you might enjoy..." with a link to his version of LoGD. I liked it, but forgot to bookmark the page. A Google search brought me to Central, and there I've been ever since. :)

Syrius

07-23-2005, 04:50 AM

:lol: *giggles*

You found this through Yahtzee!! Hehe

Sichae-Saracen

07-26-2005, 11:52 PM

My friend Anthony, who was an Admin on Tifter's server. I later became owner of that server. Then, I was kicked off... mainly because I called Tifter a pompous $%@# @#$%$ @#$^$# #%$. :)

Then, I found Central... been here for just about a year now. :)

bratt

08-04-2005, 09:53 PM

I was playing a junior kind of RPG, and it was having all kinds of crashes from poor maintenance and limited backup - and while grumbling to a friend, he send me a link that was sent to him...
I tried it, and loved it - lots to do, places to go, people to meet - and once I got into a clan or two, I came into my own - stirred things up and really let my imagination bloom.
Got hooked enough that I created an alt to aloow me to play longer and experience more.... and talk more of course!
Thanks for the chance to have fun. :D

Jules

08-06-2005, 01:06 PM

A friend was looking for a good RP site after the Neopet chat boards were changed. I was helping her and found LoTGD. She didn't like it, but I'm still here! :D (somehow)

PiRa

08-23-2005, 12:08 AM

I was bored...

Now I'm not. :wink:

Okay, so I forgot where I got the link from. All I remember was being extremely bored and I was just randomly surfing the net for something to do. After a few months here I seems like I've hit the jackpot!

Moocha

08-26-2005, 08:40 PM

So, how did you find our little corner of free-web-based-rpg goodness?

I'm just curious.

I know on of the Admins who mentioned the site on another site that we share. :lol:

alphatango

09-13-2005, 06:54 PM

I think I stumbled across Central while doing some research on myths and dragons and the like. Personal research, that is -- I'm a maths/physics student -- rather than anything for uni. Have been playing for around a week or so now.

Uzxhra

10-10-2005, 02:20 PM

I was a long-time poster on a Warhammer 40K forum by the name of LibrariumOnline, and they also had a LotGD-server... Rather more limited than Central, but still fun. I then noticed the links, found Central, and here I am! 8)

Stormbringer

10-13-2005, 06:34 AM

I was taking a look at my CJB account, and found one of the servers. Since then, I've been appearing on several servers, and I finally found one that I really, REALLY liked. So I decided to stay there, and only there.

Then, this morning or sometime yesterday - it went down. Don't know why, don't know when, don't even know if my char is still left.

That's when I decided to take matters in my own hands, and create my own little LotGD space.

Diorama

10-13-2005, 07:51 PM

I found the server from a link from a comments board I visit, which at one point had it's own server. That went down and I stopped visiting that board besides, but when I returned I saw the new link joined up.

beckyg

10-26-2005, 03:53 PM

I found it through RPGForums On-line (http://rpgforumsonline.game-host.org/).

They contacted me about donating a print of my artwork for their contests.

Their version of LotGD can be found here (http://rpgforumsonline.game-host.org/lotgd/).

Xehirut

10-29-2005, 02:07 PM

Hi all, new round these parts..

How did I find LOTRD? (Now known as LOTGD)..

I used to play it all the time when I was a kid as the old school BBS game. Yup, old school, dialup modems connecting to a computer far far away, and going into a 'games' section of a bbs, and then choosing LOTR.

Long story short, I was browsing a website, and I found this, remembering I was looking for a version to put on the BBS I was going to start a few years ago (back when I was 18, 6 years..), I quickly remembered this was my favorite BBS game, and thought I'd look around.. lo-and-behold, there are -several- improvements, and the game is beautiful, and it's on the net now..

The rest? Well.. they say is history.. Here I am on central.

kickme

10-29-2005, 11:14 PM

My brother downloaded an early pre-realse from sourcforge and installed on our local server. i then change it to 1.0.3

Julietta

11-01-2005, 04:40 PM

I was a lucky one to find LOTGD on google. RP come up with LOTGD

FreyjaSez

11-01-2005, 09:49 PM

My house-mate sent it to me from work.

He said "A guy on whirlpool runs it i think so i may have known it from there....."

I really do love this here game.Only been playing for a few days but it has taken up a rather significant amount of my net time.....

And I don't see that slowing down anytime soon if at all lol

Seanbaby

11-02-2005, 04:56 PM

Nexus Chronicles[/url]

Furion

11-02-2005, 07:49 PM

Seanbaby, I deleted your poll. It is completely against the rules of these forums. Please find a different topic.

DruneSilentarrow

11-03-2005, 10:59 AM

I asked for free RPGs and got this as an answer.

Seanbaby

11-04-2005, 02:58 PM

Seanbaby, I deleted your poll. It is completely against the rules of these forums. Please find a different topic.
Thats off topic j00 spamma!

Acemaster

11-04-2005, 03:28 PM

Mods have a right to go offtopic to moderate threads. Furion did nothing wrong.

If you wish to continue this conversation, create a new thread.

Valkor

11-25-2005, 05:36 AM

I used to play red dragon years ago and went looking for it for a bit of a reminice and found this in good ole' Google. Haven't looked back. :D

Ditto that. Ditto exactly that.

tinuviel

01-01-2006, 07:35 PM

Uh... I was getting bored with Runescape, so I started looking around for another RPG. I typed "online RPG" into Google, and I think it came up with that top online games site. LotGD was pretty high there because of the weekly vote-for-a free-gem thing (and the complete awesomeness! :D ). So I clicked on it because I like text-based RPGs, and here I am.

Leah

02-02-2006, 03:32 AM

I have no idea, honestly. I think I was just looking for a role-playing game and found a Legend of the Green Dragon site. I was hooked from the first day, and now I'm a mod on the particular one that I play. =)

Gonzaga

03-20-2006, 05:38 PM

I personally was looking for images for my characters on forum based rpgs. One of them was a green dragon so I typed "green dragon" into google and saw this site, was interested and joined.

ehmtee

06-28-2006, 12:57 AM

well, i really have no clue lol i was just randomly clicking stuff one day and BAM! there is LotGD, i checked it out and got hooked instantly

VanCrul

07-02-2006, 07:05 PM

The clan leader in the RS (www.runescape.com) clan I'm in talked about it in one of his posts, and he put a link to it as well, so I just checked it out, and I instantly liked it. =D

Linguritza

08-01-2006, 03:33 AM

wellwell, I'll have to ask my boyfriend how he found it, but I know it's the loveliest game (of this type) I have ever played :roll:

hello... by the way

l8r edit: well, I asked him... I wish I could say he had an epiphany or a prophetic dream and "poof!' there it was... but... neah... he just searched the net for mmorpg :cry: :D

l8r-ER edit: thanks, Lauri :D

Lauri

08-01-2006, 04:18 AM

Welcome =)

FireWithin

08-01-2006, 07:01 AM

hello to all
yes... last year, when I first discovered mmorpg I was thrilled by them, so i decided to search for more and this is how I found LotGD, on a site that promoted them.
I remember that it was insane... I couldn't wait for the day to pass... and when I created my clan (then you had to pay 15 gems and 10,000 gold for one) I was so proud...
And after a pause of about one year :cry: I started playing it again, and I introduced my girlfriend to the world of LotGD :D

RichPlaystation

08-01-2006, 07:20 AM

They say don't work with your partners but LotGD is the exception I guess 8)

Linguritza

08-01-2006, 07:35 AM

hmmm... LotGD isn't actually working... it's having fun!... loads! :D

FireWithin

08-01-2006, 07:40 AM

but we work dear, we fight side by side in the forest :D

Linguritza

08-01-2006, 07:41 AM

oh... so... you're my roc?! :shock: :lol: :P
Gee! Pretty birdie! :P

l8r edit... hun, I believe we're off-topic-ing just a wee bit :P

FireWithin

08-01-2006, 07:42 AM

roc and roll, my lady :oops:

l8r edit: oh yes :oops:

RichPlaystation

08-01-2006, 08:25 AM

hmmm... LotGD isn't actually woring... it's having fun!... loads! :D

A little of both for the LotGD veterans, I take it as a hell of a lot of fun sure but it is also tough so in a sense you work at it

Whatever it is, I love it more than nearly anything :D

Linguritza

08-02-2006, 02:10 AM

I know what you mean... yet that "nearly" does the trick :wink: :D

RichPlaystation

08-02-2006, 06:57 AM

It serves me better than most people do! Plus I have stuck at it alot longer than any other internet game with over 200 DK's I am pretty dedicated to it.

'Real life sucks, let's play LotGD' :wink:

Linguritza

08-02-2006, 07:04 AM

I won't fight you over that issue, but just because it's not the proper topic :lol:

Long Live LotGD :D

RichPlaystation

08-02-2006, 08:12 AM

.....and indeed why argue? it's only points of veiw, I like LotGD better than I do most people but so what :P

Glad I did find LotGD with the help of a friend (tying in with the topic a little) :wink:

Seska

09-21-2006, 07:47 AM

Am I the only one who started playing because Max posted a link in AmIRightorWrong before it closed down? I stopped going to LotGD about a year ago and have since returned. I used to be at the top too, although probably no-ones remembers! It's so weird with all the changes now! Much better though I think...

RichPlaystation

09-21-2006, 09:36 AM

What is, or rather was 'AmIRightorWrong'?

Seska

09-21-2006, 09:48 AM

It 'was' (lol) a forum that you could go on and say "I think so and so, do you agree?" It had alsorts on there from 'Britney Spears is an idiot' to 'Evolution vs Creation'. Loads of people went on there but he didn't have time for it so it went to the graveyards of abandoned sites...

RichPlaystation

09-21-2006, 09:52 AM

So it was a free for all forum? sounds good, I know a forum like that called Totse but it REALLY is free for all (aside from spam of course, everyone hates that) gets a bit wierd when you get topics like ''what race of people would you kill if you could'' and stuff :? but that is the price you pay for true free speach really isn't it

Seska

09-21-2006, 09:56 AM

Yeah, that was one major problem (spam). I admin-ed for a bit til it went off! Set up my own site then with phpbb but because of ad-spam and not having access to a computer for a year it's gone really downhill. Must get around to fixing it!

RichPlaystation

09-21-2006, 10:06 AM

Probably easier just to start a new one if it's got too far!

Shiqra

09-30-2006, 02:16 PM

Hmm - if you search for LotGD on Google, Central is the top search. That's how I found it. I knew the name of the game I was looking for because my EQ guildie had a [now-defunct] server. So I searched for Legend of the Green Dragon, and poof - Central - or Classic now - was the top pick. That was years ago and I've been here ever since - through MANY changes. LOVE this lil game - THANK you!!!!

Seska

10-02-2006, 05:42 AM

Probably easier just to start a new one if it's got too far!

Definately considering it when I have time to put in!! :lol:

RichPlaystation

10-02-2006, 07:45 AM

Forums are hard to up keep with alot of active people, mainly because it seems to attract spam bots and the like

X-Kal

10-02-2006, 10:24 AM

It wasn't always like that. Last year, I don't remember seeing *any* bots lurking around. Nowadays, you have to have the same kind of spam protection on your forums as you would place on your email accounts. It's gross.

Seska

10-02-2006, 11:29 AM

That's the thing, it was relatively free until 6 months ago. Then BAM! , the whole place was overrun. Heck, it's a great place to go if you like poker though.... :shock: :roll:

RichPlaystation

10-02-2006, 02:53 PM

Heck, it's a great place to go if you like poker though.... :shock: :roll:

Or indeed poke-her

Seska

10-02-2006, 04:38 PM

Lol :D indeed!

X-Kal

10-02-2006, 08:07 PM

*me plugs his ears and hums the "Too much information" song!

RichPlaystation

10-02-2006, 08:15 PM

:? What? it was a comment on the spammers, everyone knows what those links refer to, generally something adult wether it be gambling or porn

X-Kal

10-02-2006, 09:04 PM

:? What? it was a comment on the spammers, everyone knows what those links refer to, generally something adult wether it be gambling or !@#$

Just remember to keep an eye on the boundaries. I know you were commenting on the botters, and that's cool... but I'll appreciate less graphic details about that bot subject ;)

And I hope I don't sound like I'm mad at you; I'm not. I'm just asking for a slight favor, that's all.

RichPlaystation

10-02-2006, 10:32 PM

Nah it's ok, the boundry fence is another good 10 feet or so away at least 8)

Furion

01-17-2007, 10:26 PM

*returns you to your regularly scheduled topic, and also asks people to be mindful to contribute to the conversation to their posts, not just make side comments or "lol"s*

Grim Jestor

03-02-2007, 03:14 PM

...i was intrigued by a strange type of online game that i saw an older relative playing, and decided to create a character just to see what it was all about. after a slow start, i was hooked, and long after everyone i know who has tried it has given up in boredom, frustration, or simply being too busy-- i'm still plugging along, on the classic server at lotgd.net, although i have tried others (and not liked any of them but classic, just in case anyone is interested to know)...

Zegmorien

03-03-2007, 12:45 AM

I was playing Legend of the Red Dragon out of nostalgia on a tournament server about two and half years ago when someone spammed the flowers arrangement area with a link to a Legend of the Green Dragon game. I thought it rather odd, as we already had a Red one.. why do we need a Green one?

So, I followed the link and said to myself. Oh.. this doesn't have anything to do with what I was playing.. wait.. its based on Seth's game.. its something completely different. I played, it was a small server with a few mods and was blown away by all of the "extra stuff" that wasn't in the original. Naturally hooked, I left the Red one behind in exchange for the Green, Sorry Red :).

Moral of the story, every once in awhile if you're in the mood for it, spam does taste good.

Grim Jestor

03-03-2007, 01:14 AM

are you on classic server now, then? i do not recall a character named zegmorien there...

Zegmorien

03-03-2007, 01:46 AM

No, as for the closest relation to this forum, I'm active on the dragon prime test server. Central game server is too busy for me. I guess its just out of the old habit of being comfortable with single / few nodes. :)

Grim Jestor

03-03-2007, 02:26 AM

ah, i've never heard of any other successful servers than central... it's where i started and any others i have tried have ended up being mostly deserted or far too complicated...

sokotheutan

03-03-2007, 05:21 PM

i heard about it on TV....it was mentioned on a chat programme

Talisman

03-03-2007, 05:27 PM

i heard about it on TV....it was mentioned on a chat programme

Now THAT's cool!

RichPlaystation

03-03-2007, 09:34 PM

Wow, what programme was cool enough to have LotGD mentioned? :-D

sokotheutan

03-04-2007, 06:11 AM

i'm talking Britain here...i think it was a prog called Richard & Judy

RichPlaystation

03-04-2007, 09:38 AM

I am in the UK, Richard and Judy mentioned LotGD? :-O

sokotheutan

03-05-2007, 02:43 AM

it was either richard n judy or this morning...it was def on a chat show type prog

BarnCat

03-18-2007, 10:31 PM

I was wandering the rot infested streets of another game, fire axe in one hand, shotgun in another when the screen refreshed and a new ad came up, it looked good so I clicked on the link and saved it for later more in depth perusal. It had a LordOfTheRings sense to it, it was a few weeks before I looked into it seriously further.

Eventually I wandered on in and integrated myself slowly into the world of Chilly's LotGD, once you get past the die daily world of the Farmboy you begin to feel the power and the fun increase! I brought an army on in with me. We were Rapidly on our way to founding a clan.

Setting down the cellphone averting my eyes from the screen of the world where me and my compatriots came from, to check on the recent database connection server errors concerning us all we found that world was no more. We searched for a new base.

In the cellphone rpg realm I was for a long time known as CatDrgN, a Shade Jester, the name from a pun look what the catdrgn, lol. But before and after that I played as BarnCat, a name almost as old as my own RL name, kinda a nickname from kidhood and first ever CB Handle. After awhile a name becomes a part of you.

Then ya gotta find a place to put that darn name, it's gotta express, it's gotta breathe!

Seeing a DragonCat server was like seeing an ideal zone, maybe not like coming home, but someplace Fitting. It's got less mods and fringe goodies than Chilly's, but basic and fundamental in a good way. There can be too much of a good thing, can be too many things to do at times.

Who knows where the road leads from here, {posting semi in / semi out of character, a playeracter hybrid lol} but this is fur sure a darn good game. :)

Tek

10-08-2007, 04:28 PM

Hi all - Mmm I was told about it by kendaer who i'm playing another game with, then I didn't join his server...whoops... sorry chuck

meskarune

10-26-2007, 12:36 PM

I was browsing articles on wikipedia and ended up here.

wiki surfing has landed me in some crazy places over the years. :D

jrminga

10-26-2007, 05:35 PM

I was browsing articles on wikipedia and ended up here.

which is odd, because the last time i looked, wiki moved the LotGD article from a multi-page document to two or three lines buried within the LoRD article.

RichPlaystation

10-27-2007, 08:37 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_green_dragon#Clones - Hmm, true! When did that happen then? last time I look it was seperate, though it would be possible to stumble upon the LORD article as with anything else.

X-Kal

10-27-2007, 12:42 PM

which is odd, because the last time i looked, wiki moved the LotGD article from a multi-page document to two or three lines buried within the LoRD article.

Sad. You're right... It wasn't too long ago that I was poking around the old LotGD article and adding to the chatter page and such.

Talisman

10-27-2007, 04:32 PM

I lost a lot of respect/trust in the Wikipedia manner of doing business and reliability of information when they made that change.

However, I did manage to save the page and have it recreated in the DragonPedia for posterity:

http://wiki.dragonprime.net/index.php?title=LoGDWiki

meskarune

10-28-2007, 05:47 PM

I was reading about the history of bbs because I'm a nerd...then went to nethack, then lord...and ended up here.

so yeah...those two lines of obsure text landed me at lengend of the green dragon. I spend WAY too much time wiki surfing. lol

Skulvar

11-20-2007, 05:56 PM

I don't really remember how I ended up on LoGD but I do remember all the different LoGD sites I played on. The best of wich in my opinion was definately Fynralyl's LoGD, but that one just dissapeared one day. =(

@Meskarune Nethack is nice, but I prefer Angband. :D

sixf00t4

01-02-2008, 04:57 PM

a friend of mine tried to host a .9.7 game back in 2004 or so, ran into a whole bunch of server related problems, so i picked it up on my side and ran with it, found the sourceforge community and Robert, and started writing my own mods, and the rest is history.

X-Kal

01-02-2008, 07:26 PM

Arete

07-17-2008, 04:32 PM

I've played LORD on and off for the past few years and didn't realise there was a LOTGD... so here I am :D

(Considering I've been playing a few years doesn't seem to have improved my style either! :D)

SmVzcll

08-05-2008, 11:59 AM

Well, one of my friends sent it to me. How he found it I'm not too sure, but I don't usually question him...

koden

09-24-2008, 10:46 AM

well, i was on another sites fourm, and someone mentioned about it, i checked it out and there was lots of people on it but most of them were under 1dk so i thought they wouldnt be good roleplayers (no offense ;)) so then a week passed and someone else on this site who i know from another site told me that everyone was a good roleplayer, but it was hard to get a dragon kill, so then i joined, my story told! (sorry if its too long)

Death Angel Ashara

12-15-2008, 07:41 AM

I really have no idea how I found LoGD, it's been a long time since I first started. About six years, if I'm not mistaken. I probably found a link to comfortablydumb.net during a random google search or some such thing.

fishiemcfish

01-05-2009, 01:49 AM

I used to play LORD on BBS' 15~ years ago. Have found various versions on the tubes via telnet since. This is the first browser version I think I've discovered. Yay!

\m/

RichPlaystation

01-05-2009, 08:29 AM

It's amazing people are STILL finding this game :D It's also amusing that I'm still in the younger end of the people playing, ha!

kickme

01-05-2009, 12:39 PM

Yet you're still an old man :p

RichPlaystation

01-05-2009, 02:14 PM

Am I? Ha ok then, I've been told! :-P

How old are you then huh?

kickme

01-07-2009, 11:40 PM

Profile says 17, so lets go with that :)

RichPlaystation

01-08-2009, 10:10 AM

Oh right, woops I forgot about the profiles on here, I'm in my early 20's so I guess I am old compaired to you.
Congratulations for being under 20 and not illiterate (nowdays), you and the few thousand other young people that can read and write well, should be proud :P

It's nice to see such a wide range of ages around the same environment all getting along, I bet no one expected it all to see years ago when it was created.