Vincent Baker comments on Ron Edwards’ new game, Spione
Spione is, however, a game that’ll inherently seem both very difficult and totally unrewarding to, well, to most gamers. It requires that its players have already developed – or be in the process of developing – certain skills, incompatible with certain other skills that most gamers rely on.
I gather the game is about cold war spies, focussing on the conflict between double agents personal lives and their roles as spooks. But apparently us traditional gamers are too brain-damaged ever to be able to play it.
Or alternatively, all he means is that the structure is radically different to a traditional RPG, and the stuff about ‘incompatible skills’ is either clever hype or pretentious nonsense, depending on your point of view.
