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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 8623360" data-attributes="member: 6925338">The old World of Darkness games are heavily simulationist. Yes there is a lot of talk in the books about drama and narrative, but the mechanics themselves do not empower the players to drive the story. Instead the mechanics directly control the PC's actions at times (frenzy etc.) and the GM is explicitly encouraged to direct events towards their own story ideas. It is very much about GM as auteur with the players acting out their parts, chewing up the scenery and bringing the detailed, heavily codified setting to life. It was precisely this dichotomy between what the game seemed to offer and what it actually did that led to the development of narrativist systems in the first place.(I loved the oWoD, it was just that the game design technology wasn't quite there yet to support its ambition.)Not sure why anyone would ever think CoC wasn't simulationist.</blockquote>