
Record of Lodoss War was created in 1986 by Group SNE as a Dungeons & Dragons "replay" serialized in the Japanese magazine Comptiq from September 1986 to July 1988 issues, though they also used the setting with other systems such as Tunnels & Trolls and RuneQuest.

The plots generally follow the conventions and structure of the RPG systems including Dungeons & Dragons and Sword World RPG, in which several characters of distinct types undertake a specific quest. There have since been multiple manga, anime and computer game adaptations, several of which have been translated into English. "Lodoss Island War Chronicle") is a franchise of fantasy novels by Ryo Mizuno based on the work he originally created for a world called Forcelia as a rules-free setting for role-playing games (RPGs). Record of Lodoss War ( Japanese: ロードス島戦記, Hepburn: Rōdosu-tō Senki, lit.

Yutaka Izubuchi (first editions of the Prelude and the first novel)
