I"m not going to disagree. In fact, I recently (today) read a post about a long-running TV show. The showrunner is not popular with the fans, but he is with the actors, and the reason could be best summed up as: the showrunner often ignores narrative and continuity for the sake of drama, which gives the actors a chance to stretch their 'acting muscles', but those that watch it are constantly saying 'this or that character wouldn't do that!'

Not that it particularly matters, but is the other iteration of which you speak The Inquisition or is there actually another 'Burning Post'?

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You probably did try it ten years ago, as I believe that's about when it first began. If you're interested in the history, I'll tell you, but I don't want to bore anyone who isn't. Long and stort, it is a different approach to the setting and story (while keeping the fundamental aspects of the theme intact). The original setting still exists, but the game actually takes place over 500 years after the original Burning Post. Our coder has also made 100s of substantial upgrades to the code.

I use MUSHclient, myself.

I only brought up the OOC thing because I've been told I'm not an 'RPI' because of the OOC chatting. I dunno. I care about theme and people having fun. I try not to get too nitpicky about what makes a game this or that.

Also, used to work for a newspaper and I currently proofread technical stuff for a living, and the standard both places were one space after a comma, so I went with it.

While we do allow OOC chatter, the game's sole purpose is RP. Do people try to make it hack'n'slashy with IC sparring? Eh, that's debatable, but everything a character does is OR SHOULD BE IC.

Hi, Orphy! here. To answer ThugHeaven's question, there's really no 'original' Burning Post anymore, unless someone with access to the original code (which our coder has changed/improved substantially) decided to do something with it. If so, I'm not aware.

The Burning Post II is sometimes just referred to as The Burning Post or BurP. To be honest, adding the II at the end when I created that game has probably hurt me a little, as I've been told people worry that knowledge of the first one is necessary to play the 'sequel'. It definitely isn't. The original game's setting and the current game's primarily (well, not recently) setting are both a certain island, but I did redesign/expand the island before 'BurP II' opened.

If anything, it is a spinoff of the original TI, which was started back in the late 90's. There is another TI-themed game out there. I'd argue that the themes (at this point) except for the very very basic "mages are evil" aspect are quite different. There is a difference in story, certainly, and setting, and overall plot.

Are we heavily coded? Yeah, maybe. But I dunno -- I've played MUSHes and I've played MUDs, and I think it is fair to say we're a decent hybrid of the two.