Spione: Story Now in Cold War Berlin
{{Short description|Tabletop role-playing game by Ron Edwards}}
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Spione: Story Now in Cold War Berlin is a role-playing game published by Ron Edwards in 2007.
Description
Spione: Story Now in Cold War Berlin is a spy role-playing game set in Cold War Berlin.
Publication history
According to Shannon Appelcline, after games like It Was a Mutual Decision and Trollbabe, Ron Edwards "outlined his next project as part of an essay he wrote in 2003 called 'Narrativism: Story Now'; he began serious work on it around 2005, and finally published the hefty 244-page Spione: STORY NOW in Cold War Berlin (2007) a few years later. As the name suggests, it's a spy game set in World War II Berlin, but it covers a subgenre of spy novels that Edwards calls 'Spy vs. Guy fiction.' Here, the characters are more endangered by psychological crises than by the enemy."{{rp|147}} For Edwards, his primary goal for the game was to "write a book on what he calls 'Cold War Triumphalism' — the idea that the fall of the Soviet Union allowed the United States to retroactively rewrite history to justify their military and economic power."{{rp|147}} Edwards also intended to market the game for Europe in countries that would not normally carry role-playing games, using its focus on historical espionage during the Cold War.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons: The '00s|publisher=Evil Hat Productions|year=2014| isbn=978-1-61317-087-8}}{{rp|148}}
Reception
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