"LORD" was created by Seth Robinson of Robinson Technologies and is currently maintained by Michael Preslar. Robinson began to write "LORD" in Pascal to run on his bulletin board system. 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. The first version of "LORD" only featured the chatting and flirting systems. 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. Eventually "LORD" became a mixture of action and romance.