Spione: Story Now in Cold War Berlin

Spione: Story Now in Cold War Berlin is a spy role-playing game set in Cold War Berlin.

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."[1]^: 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."[1]^: 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.[1]^: 148