OSINT-6 Espionage Roleplaying Factbook [Core Rulebook]
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A source makes contact. Surveillance reveals a pattern. Research exposes a vulnerability. The team establishes cover, selects equipment, prepares communications, and plans an extraction. Once the mission begins, every earlier decision matters.

OSINT-6 is a complete, 5E-compatible tabletop roleplaying game for modern espionage. Its level 1–6 framework keeps agents capable, specialized, and vulnerable. Familiar ability scores, checks, Saving Throws, combat procedures, and advancement rules make the game easy to approach.

Create an agent from 6 aptitude classes and 14 professions. Develop the skills, talents, feats, qualifications, credentials, and language proficiency required for the mission. Equip the team with modern firearms, armor, surveillance devices, communications equipment, tactical gear, vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft.

Inside nearly 400 pages, you’ll find:

  • Complete character creation and advancement rules

  • 6 aptitude classes and 14 professions

  • Skills, feats, talents, qualifications, credentials, and languages

  • Modern combat, injury, recovery, hazards, and chases

  • Firearms, ammunition, armor, explosives, and tactical equipment

  • Communications and surveillance technology

  • Ground vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft

  • Intelligence collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination

  • Reconnaissance, surveillance, research, and social engineering

  • Influence, source development, and interpersonal operations

  • Infiltration, cover identities, and operational security

  • Mission planning, communications, and extraction procedures

  • Game Master guidance, adversaries, organizations, and campaign rules

  • Sample starting agents, operational records, reference tables, and a detailed index

OSINT-6 supports counterintelligence investigations, covert collection, criminal infiltration, protective operations, political thrillers, and extended espionage campaigns. Contemporary technology and grounded operational procedures place preparation, access, deception, and risk at the center of play.

The rulebook provides a complete game in one volume. Its setting-neutral design supports original campaigns, historical adaptations, and modern operations built around the locations, agencies, and conflicts selected by the group.

OSINT-6 is released under a Creative Commons license. Designers and publishers can adapt the rules, create compatible material, and publish their own OSINT-6 projects under the license terms.

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REFERENCE

The following is an alphabetical listing of reference sources used in the creation of OSINT-6.

CIA World Factbook Archive 1990–2025‍ ‍

Historical editions of the CIA World Factbook, organized for reference and comparison across publication years.

https://worldfactbookarchive.org/

CORE

Searchable collection of open-access research papers gathered from institutional and subject repositories worldwide.

https://core.ac.uk/

E6: The Game Inside D&D

Original EN World discussion presenting E6, a D&D variant that limits character advancement to 6 levels.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/e6-the-game-inside-d-d.206323/

Google Scholar

Academic search engine for scholarly articles, books, theses, court opinions, citations, and related research.

https://scholar.google.com/

JSTOR‍ ‍

Digital library containing academic journals, books, research reports, and primary-source collections.

https://www.jstor.org/

OpenAlex

Open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, publications, research topics, and citation relationships.

https://openalex.org/

Open Culture

Curated directory of free educational and cultural resources, including courses, books, films, and lectures.

https://www.openculture.com/

Semantic Scholar‍ ‍

Academic search engine for locating research papers, authors, citations, references, and related scholarship.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/

SSRN

Research repository and distribution platform for preprints and working papers, especially in law and the social sciences.

https://www.ssrn.com/ssrn/

System Reference Document v5.2.1

Official 5E rules reference released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd

Tubi Spy Movies

Free, ad-supported streaming collection of spy films, espionage thrillers, covert-action stories, and related documentaries.

https://tubitv.com/category/spy_movies

World Factbook (Wayback Machine)

Archived snapshot of the CIA World Factbook preserved through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260131095511/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/