Role Cards
The eight roles of Comrades & Chollimas, four per chair, each with three verbs. Pick a role and open its page.
Use these pages during play. Each role page says what the role does, lists its three verbs with what each does and when to roll it, the free actions, a first-person line to say it in, tips, what the role watches, and what you never do. Verbs are DEFAULT playtest parameters. The roles themselves are RULED.
Free for anyone: Ask, Look, Hold. They never roll. Short on players? Borrow another role’s verb for one action. See Chairs and Roles.
The Comrades’ chair: the operator cell
Get hired. Stay hired. Reach what you came for.
| Role | In one line | Verbs |
|---|---|---|
| Persona | The face the Company meets. | Perform, Deflect, Stall |
| Ground Crew | The people and places behind the screen. | Hop, Relay, Forge-doc |
| Tooling | Keys and tools the hire can reach. | Use-key, Mask, Probe |
| Money | Where the pay goes. | Route-wage, Swap-payee, Cash-out |
The Company’s chair
Weigh the evidence. A wrong cut costs you; so does waiting.
| Role | In one line | Verbs |
|---|---|---|
| HR | Checks the person and the file. | Verify, Probe-interview, Reference-check |
| Engineering | Limits and reviews what the hire reaches. | Scope, Review, Sandbox |
| SecOps | Reads the logs, watches the accounts. | Pull-log, Isolate, Watch |
| Finance & Legal | Checks payees and holds the cut. | Check-payee, Hold-payment, Approve-cut |
Which role fits me?
- I like talking and staying calm under questions: Persona (Comrades) or HR (Company).
- I like practical logistics and workarounds: Ground Crew.
- I like systems, access and tools: Tooling (Comrades), Engineering or SecOps (Company).
- I like money, payees and paperwork: Money (Comrades) or Finance & Legal (Company).
Roles are lenses, not job titles. Pick the one that teaches you the most.
At a glance
- Persona: Perform, Deflect, Stall.
- Ground Crew: Hop (a device or address, never an identity), Relay, Forge-doc.
- Tooling: Use-key, Mask, Probe.
- Money: Route-wage, Swap-payee, Cash-out.
- HR: Verify, Probe-interview, Reference-check.
- Engineering: Scope, Review, Sandbox.
- SecOps: Pull-log (one lookup), Isolate, Watch.
- Finance & Legal: Check-payee, Hold-payment, Approve-cut.