| Role |
From |
Pawn |
Abilities
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| Archivist |
OtB |
Blue |
- Your hand limit is 8 cards.
- Once per turn, as an action, you may take the City card that matches the city you are in from the Player Discard Pile into your hand.
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| Bio-Terrorist |
OtB |
Black |
- Basic actions: Drive/Ferry, Direct Flight, Charter Flight, Draw A Card, Pass.
- Once each per turn, only if not currently spotted: Infect Locally, Infect Remotely, Sabotage.
- If captured, only these actions are possible: Draw A Card, Escape, Pass.
|
| Colonel |
SoE |
Purple |
- When you enter a city with a “1” quarantine marker, flip it to its “2” side.
- As an action, you may discard a City card to place a quarantine marker in any city.
|
| Containment Specialist |
OtB |
Ivory |
- When you enter a city with 2 or more disease cubes of the same color, remove 1 of them.
|
| Contingency Planner |
10th |
Cyan |
- As an action, take any discarded Event card and store it on this Role card (limit 1).
- You can play a stored Event card as if it were in your hand. When you do, return it to the box.
|
| Dispatcher |
10th |
Pink |
- As an action, move any pawn to any city containing another pawn.
- As an action, move another player’s pawn as if it were your own.
Get permission before moving another player’s pawn.
|
| Epidemiologist |
OtB |
Peach |
- Once during your turn, you may (with permission) take any City card from a player in the same city with you. Doing this is not an action.[’15]
|
| Field Director |
ItL |
Purple |
- You may Treat Disease in a city connected to the city you are in.
- Once per turn, you may (with permission) move another player’s pawn in your city, or a city connected to it, by Drive/Ferry. Doing this is a free bonus action.
|
| Field Operative |
OtB |
Yellow |
- Once per turn, as an action, you may move 1 disease cube from the city you are in onto this Role card.
- When you Discover a Cure, you may replace 2 of the needed City cards with 3 cubes of the cure color from this card.
|
| First Responder |
SoE |
Emerald |
- As an action, you may move to any city with a research station.
- Immediately after an Epidemic, you may—out of turn—move to the epidemic city and Treat Disease there (before infections).
|
| Gene Splicer |
SoE |
Navy |
- You may Discover a Cure at a research station—in a city of the color being cured—by turning in 2 City cards of the cure color, plus 1 City card each of the 3 other (standard) disease colors.
|
| Generalist |
OtB |
Gray |
- You may do up to 5 actions each turn.[’15 & Ls1]
|
| Local Liaison |
ItL |
Pink |
- Once during your turn, as an action, you may give a City card that matches the color of the city you are in to a player in any city of the same color.
- Lab Challenge: once per turn, at a research station, you may either Characterize a Disease or Test a Cure as a free bonus action.
|
| Medic |
10th |
Orange |
- Remove all cubes of one color when you do the Treat Disease action.
- Automatically remove cubes of cured diseases from your city (and prevent them from being placed there). To remove superbug cubes you must also discard a vaccine dose.[𝚂𝚘𝙴]
|
| Operations Expert |
10th |
Green, light |
- As an action, build a research station in your city (no City card needed).
- Once during each of your turns, as an action, discard any City card to move from a research station to any city.†
|
| Pharmacist |
SoE |
Ivory |
- As an action, reveal a City card to Treat Disease (or Distribute Vaccine) there.
- As an action, remove 1 cube of a cured disease from any city to the supply.
|
| Pilot |
ItL |
Sky blue |
- You cannot do movement actions (Drive/Ferry or flights), nor build research stations.
- You may, as an action, fly to any city within 3 connections of the city you are in, skipping cities in between. You may (with permission) take 1 other pawn with you.
|
| Quarantine Specialist |
10th |
Green, dark |
- Prevent disease cube placement (and outbreaks) in your city and all cities connected to it.
|
| Researcher |
10th |
Brown |
When you are involved in a Share Knowledge action:
- You may give any card from your hand.
- Another player can take any card from your hand.
(In both cases, the card does not need to match the city you are in.)
- Lab Challenge: once per turn, at a research station, you may Sequence a Disease as a free bonus action.[ItL]
|
| Scientist |
10th |
White |
- You need only 4 City cards (instead of 5) of the same color to do the Discover a Cure action for that disease.
|
| Troubleshooter |
OtB |
Red |
- Start your turn by looking at as many Infection cards as the current infection rate.
- When you do a Direct Flight, reveal the City card used (but do not discard it).
|
| Veterinarian |
SoE |
Brown |
- As an action at a research station, you may move to any Hinterlands space.
- In a Hinterlands space, remove 2 cubes of an uncured disease when you Treat Disease.
|
| Virologist |
ItL |
Green |
- When you Discover a CUre, you may discard 2 City cards of the same color to replace 1 City card of the cure color.
- As an action, discard a City card to remove 1 cube of its color from any city, returning it to the supply.
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| Z-Force Team Member |
ɢᴄ16 |
Outline |
- Start the game in Montréal.
- When you Discover a Cure, players in your city may collectively contribute up to 2 cards toward the 5 needed for a cure.
- For an action, you may move directly to Montréal or Essen.
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(4)–(3)–(2)–(1)–(☠)
Lose 1 health if a cube (or cubes) is added to your city:
• From an Infection card.
• By an Epidemic card’s Infect step.
• If the city you are in outbreaks.
Note: You only lose 1 health if you are in a city that outbreaks, not when an adjacent city outbreaks and adds a cube to your city.
Treatment
Spend 1 action and discard 1 card at a research station to recover 1 Health. The card MUST match the color of the city you are in.
Death
If your character’s health ever reaches the skull on your health track, your character is overcome and your team is eliminated.