Pandemic: Promo Roles

About this expansion

Pandemic: Promo Roles is a two-card promo for use with Pandemic, supporting 2–4 players and a 45-minute play time. Released in 2015, it adds four special roles through two double-sided cards.

Each card presents two different characters, and two roles can be used in any given game. This compact promo offers a choice of additional characters while introducing a distinctive health mechanic that increases the difficulty of Pandemic.

• Card 1: Epidemiologist and Operations Expert
• Card 2: Generalist and Medic

The key difference with these promo characters is that they lose health when cubes are added to the city they are in. They also lose health if the city they occupy outbreaks, making their location especially important during play.

A promo character has four health, and the players lose the game if all four health are ever exhausted. This creates an additional loss condition alongside Pandemic’s existing challenge, placing greater pressure on the characters selected for the game.

With its double-sided cards, four available roles, and direct health-based consequence, Pandemic: Promo Roles is a small addition designed to make games more demanding. Choose from the Epidemiologist, Operations Expert, Generalist, and Medic, then contend with the danger posed by cubes and outbreaks in their cities.