OSINT-6 CHANGELOG 260821
A balanced adventuring party often begins with fixed combat functions. An intelligence team begins with a requirement. The question that must be answered, source that must be protected, system that must be restored, or foreign capability that must be assessed determines which specialties belong on the mission.
The OSINT-6 CIA Fact Sheet therefore builds example teams around mission requirements. Developing a human source puts the Case Officer in the lead, supported by targeting, staff operations, and technical personnel. Answering a strategic intelligence question centers the Analyst, with collection management and targeting officers helping define gaps and evaluate reporting.
Other requirements produce different combinations. A threatened source may need protective movement, technical support, and headquarters coordination. A suspected penetration calls for targeting, analysis, security, and technical investigation. Restoring compromised mission systems puts a Mission-Systems Officer in the lead while technical, security, and support specialists protect continuity.
The lead role owns the immediate objective. Supporting roles provide access, information, tradecraft, protection, infrastructure, logistics, or authority. Leadership can change when new intelligence changes the problem. A Case Officer may lead source development, then hand the central task to a Protective Officer during extraction or to an Analyst when the collected reporting reaches assessment.
This approach also gives support careers a defined place in play. Communications, contracting, records, medicine, finance, facilities, transportation, and legal work aren’t background decoration when the mission depends on them. The specialist’s contribution becomes visible through a requirement the team can’t meet without that capability.
Team composition is therefore an operational decision rather than a universal template. The Game Master states the objective and available intelligence. Players select the roles, access, equipment, and relationships needed to address that specific problem.