HR
Chair: Company’s chair. You check the person and the paper behind the hire: ID, interview answers, references. You hold half the evidence in the case, because the cell works around exactly what HR is meant to catch.
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 a feeling. I need a source that does not belong to the candidate.”
Your three verbs
Verify
What it does: Check an ID or start document against its source.
Roll it when: the ID-check status on a hire card is unverified or the document could be forged. The clue tier sets your target.
Probe-interview
What it does: Probe a hire’s interview answers for behaviour, process or money facts. It is a rolled action, with the target set by the clue tier. It costs one action and no lookup. The IM states one inconsistency from the card, or says there is none. An inconsistency is a revealed fact of its record type. It informs and never scores or closes.
Roll it when: you want a behaviour, process or money fact that the file does not show. A plain question to a hire is a different move, Question a hire, which costs one action and one lookup, never rolls, and gets “the file does not say” if the card does not cover it (one question per round per hire).
Reference-check
What it does: Contact a reference and test whether it stands apart from the hire.
Roll it when: references agree a little too quickly, or one has no history beyond the hire.
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
- Verify before you Question a hire. Lookups are scarce.
- Ask about process and money: tools, approvals, payee, schedule.
- Share what you find in one sentence for the table.
- When a hire has a shy camera, treat it as a weak oddity with a harmless reason until a control or a human cost says otherwise. Two clues of two types are needed before a cut, so one oddity alone never carries it.
What this role watches
- ID-check status on each hire card.
- Which process and money oddities each hire shows, and which have both.
- The lookup budget: 3 per stage, shared.
What you never do
Never ask about nationality, accent, passport or appearance. Never accuse a hire because of how they look or sound. A video or appearance clip only opens a meeting. Judge the process.
Judge the process, not the person.
Short on players?
HR pairs well with Finance & Legal. Any player may borrow another role’s verb for one action. Say aloud which verb and whose it is. See Chairs and Roles.