Pandemic

Roles

Role	Source	Pawn	Abilities
Archivist	2009 OtB	Blue	Your hand limit is 8 cards. Once per turn, you may spend an action to draw your current city’s card from the Player Discard Pile. 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.[2013 Ed.]
Bio-Terrorist	2009 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	2015 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	2009 OtB	Ivory	When you enter a city with 2 or more cubes of the same color, remove 1 cube. When you enter a city with 2 or more disease cubes of the same color, remove 1 of them.[2013 Ed.]
Contingency Planner	2013 Pan.	Cyan	As an action, take any discarded Event card and store it on this card. When you play the stored Event card, remove it from the game. Limit: 1 Event card on this card at a time, which is not part of your hand.
Dispatcher	2008 Pan.	Pink	Move another player’s pawn as if it were yours.[2013 Ed.] As an action, move any pawn to a city with another pawn.[2013 Ed. & 2015 Ls1] Get permission before moving another player’s pawn.[2013 Ed. & 2015 Ls1]
Epidemiologist	2009 OtB	Peach	Once per turn (on your turn only) you may spend an action to take a non-matching city card from a player whose pawn is in the city you are in. 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.[2013 Ed. & 2015 PR]
Field Director	2013 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	2009 OtB	Yellow	Once per turn you may spend an action to move 1 cube from your current city to your Role Card. Once per turn, as an action, you may move 1 disease cube from the city you are in onto this Role card.[2013 Ed.] You may Cure A Disease following normal rules but using only 3 cards plus 3 matching cubes from your 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.[2013 Ed.]
First Responder	2015 SoE	Emerald	As an action, you may move to any city with a research station. Immediately after an Epiemic, you may—out of turn—move to the epidemic city and Treat Disease there (before…
Gene Splicer	2015 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	2009 OtB	Gray	You get 5 actions to spend each turn. You may do up to 5 actions each turn.[2013 Ed. & 2015 PR & Ls1]
Local Liaison	2013 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	2008 Pan.	Orange	Remove all cubes of a single color when you treat a city. Remove all cubes of one color when doing Treat Disease.[2013 Ed., 2015 PR & SoE] Remove all cubes of one color when doing the Treat Disease action.[2015 Ls1] Administer known cures for free. Automatically remove cubes of cured diseases from the city you are in (and prevent them from being placed there).[2013 Ed., 2015 PR & Ls1] Automatically remove cubes of cured diseases from the city you are in—to remove superbug cubes you must also discard a vaccine dose—and prevent them from being placed here.[2015 SoE]
Operations Expert	2008 Pan. 2009 OtB	Green	You may build a research station in your current city for one action. As an action, build a research station in the city you are in (no City card needed).[2015 PR] Once per turn at a research station you may spend an action and discard any city card to move to any city.[2009 OtB] Once per turn as an action, move from a research station to any city by discarding any City card.[2015 PR]
Pharmacist	2015 SoE	Ivory	As an action, reveal a Cit card to Treat Disease (or Distribute Vaccine) there. As an action, remove 1 cube of a cured disease from any city to…
Pilot	2013 ItL	Light 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	2013 Pan.	Emerald	Prevent disease cube placements (and outbreaks) in the city you are in and all cities connected to it.
Researcher	2008 Pan.	Brown	You may give a player cards from your hand for 1 action per card. Both of your pawns must be in the same city, but it doesn’t matter which city you are in. As an action, you may give (or a player can take) any City card from your hand. You must both be in the same city. The card does not have to match the city you are in.[2013 ItL] You may give any 1 of your City cards when you Share Knowledge. It need not match your city. A player who Shares Knowledge with you on their turn can tak any 1 of your City cards.[2015 Ls1] Lab Challenge: once per turn, at a research station, you may Sequence a Disease as a free bonus action.[2013 ItL]
Scientist	2008 Pan.	White	You need only 4 cards of the same color to discover a cure. You need only 4 cards of the same color to do the Discover a Cure action.[2015 Ls1]
Troubleshooter	2009 OtB	Red	At your turn’s start, peek at the number of cards on top of the infection Draw Pile equal to the current infection rate. Start your turn by looking at as many Infection cards as the current infection rate.[2013 ed.] When performing a Direct Flight action, you reveal but do not discard the card. When you do a Direct Flight, reveal the City card used (but do not discard it).[2013 ed.]
Veterinarian	2015 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	2013 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.
Z-Force Team Member	2016 GC	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.