Characters can work together when several people can meaningfully contribute to the same task. Use the form of teamwork that best matches how their efforts interact.
Assisted Tests
Use an Assisted Test when one character leads an action while others provide useful support.
Choose one character as the leader. Each assistant must have a relevant Skill or otherwise be able to contribute meaningfully to the action. Each qualified assistant grants +5 to the leader’s Success Target.
Assistants do not roll. The GM determines how many characters can reasonably assist and whether their contribution is relevant.
The leader then resolves the test normally using the modified Success Target.
Group Effort
Use a Group Effort when everyone contributes directly toward the same result.
Each participating character makes an appropriate test. Add their Hits together and compare the total to a required number of Hits set by the GM.
By default, the required Hits equal the number of participating characters. Particularly demanding tasks may require more Hits, while simpler tasks may require fewer.
If the group reaches the required number of Hits, the effort succeeds. Otherwise, it fails.
Complications affect the character who triggered them and do not automatically affect the group’s accumulated Hits.
Action Chain
Use an Action Chain when one character’s performance directly affects the next stage of a coordinated sequence.
Participants act in order. The first character makes their test normally.
For each positive Hit generated, apply +5 to the next character’s Success Target. For each negative Hit, apply −5 instead.
This modifier carries forward through the chain. Add each new modifier to the existing total, to a maximum of +20 or −20.
Complications affect the character who triggered them and do not change the chain modifier.
Action Chains are useful for coordinated tasks where each step depends on the last, such as bypassing layered security, preparing an infiltration route, or synchronizing several specialists during a complex operation.