[Yo! Master]

Originally Posted by Wood

Interesting review (and, hilariously, with a higher score than my own review from 2004).

Speaking as someone who's since written a fair amount for the Wolf and has changed a lot of my opinions about RPGs, I don't think that Vampire is really all that narrativist. I'd actually call it an unfocussed simulationist game with narrativist tweaks.

Which is not a bad thing, since it means you can play any sort of game with it, from dark superheroes, to innocent public-munching monster, to that whole thing with the trying to remain human and having the moral quandaries and personal horrors and stuff.

But that's by the by.

And i do agree with you, Wood (with the caveat that it doesn't try to simulate reality but a certain kind of stories, so personally i'd rather use the term "emulationist").