Finance & Legal
Chair: Company’s chair. You guard the money and the law. You check where pay goes, hold a payment when it is in doubt, and you are the only role that can approve a cut.
Verbs are DEFAULT playtest parameters. The role is RULED. The IM calls every roll and states the target first (Easy 8, Standard 12, Hard 16). You have 2 actions per round.
“I do not need to like the answer. I need to see the payee.”
Your three verbs
Check-payee
What it does: Check the payee against the hire named on the card. Before stage 2 a money check returns “not on file until stage 2”, and the action is still spent. A success reveals one money fact.
Roll it when: a bank detail is new, late or changed. A name that does not match is a fact, not a guess.
Hold-payment
What it does: Hold a payment until it is explained. It is a closing verb: a success is a held payment and lowers Payoff by 1, never below 0.
Roll it when: a payment is due and a payee fact is open.
Approve-cut
What it does: Approve the cut of a hire after a stop-the-line vote and meeting. The table must first name one control or show the human cost, and the hire must have 2 revealed clues of 2 types (process and money), not before stage 2. It costs one action and never rolls.
Use it when: the table has named a control or a human cost, the gate is met and the meeting has run. Video alone only gives the meeting.
Free actions
Ask, Look and Hold are free for anyone and never roll. Ask the IM or a teammate a question, Look at the card or the file and read it aloud, or Hold an action for a better moment.
Tips
- Hold-payment is cheap and reversible. Prefer it to a cut when the evidence is thin.
- Ask the table: which control are we naming?
- Approve-cut on an innocent hire is a wrongful offboarding: Exposure +2, stage ends, the hire is gone. In stage 3 the case ends at once.
- Say what you checked, then what you hold.
What this role watches
- Payee, bank changes and pay dates on every hire card.
- Whether the named control is a real control or a feeling.
- Payoff and Exposure: both move when you act.
What you never do
Never approve a cut because a hire looks or sounds a certain way. Never cut before a control or a human cost is named. Never treat video or appearance evidence alone as enough: it only opens a meeting.
Judge the process, not the person.
Short on players?
Finance & Legal pairs well with HR. Any player may borrow another role’s verb for one action. Say aloud which verb and whose it is. See Chairs and Roles.