Cooperation

When two or more protagonists attempt something together and the entire group will either succeed or fail as a unit, they perform a Cooperation Check. A Cooperation Check has three steps:

1. Choose a Leader
2. Followers choose their method of supporting and make a Test
3. The Leader makes a Check to determine the group’s success, with modifiers from the Follower’s outcomes

Leader

The group designates one protagonist as the Leader, which identifies whose Check will determine the group’s collective outcome.

The Leader is responsible for:

• Describing the group’s shared intent as a single Action
• Determining the method they personally use
• Making the final Check
• Choosing Cost types and distributing the effects of Fallout, if appropriate

Followers

All other participants in a Cooperation Check become Followers. Each Follower describes how they’re helping the group’s efforts.

Once their method is chosen, each Follower makes a Support Test. Each Follower that succeeds grants +2 to the Leader’s Check. Each Follower that fails grants -2 to the Leader’s Check.

Collective Check

After the Followers have made their Tests and the cumulative Cooperation modifier is calculated, the Leader makes a Check, as normal, adding the Cooperation modifier to the result.

Shared Fallout

Cooperation spreads both benefits and risks. If the Leader’s Check results in:

• Each member of the group pays any Costs or suffers any Fallout.
• The referee uses one Complication for the whole group.