Gone Cardboard: Rules and Images for Pandemic: On the Brink

Z-Man Games has posted the rules and several card images for Pandemic: On the Brink, an expansion for Matt Leacock’s runaway success Pandemic that was co-designed by Leacock and Tom Lehmann. Lehmann says that the expansion developed in several directions as he and Leacock traded emails. “The hardest thing for an expansion is how you can design it so that people can easily grasp the game. You want to make it easy for people to absorb the new roles, the new special effects.”

Thus, as with many expansions of recent years, Pandemic: On the Brink contains multiple parts that can be added or not as players desire, starting with the ability to have five players and up to seven epidemics. Six new role cards are included, including a Bio-Terrorist card that pits one player against all the others. The Mutation challenge introduces a fifth disease to the game that changes uncontrollably, and with only 12 purple cubes in the game, players need to combat it quickly to stay alive.

The Virulent Strain challenge increases the toughness of one disease, requiring players to cure at least one cube of the disease before leaving a city, for example, or causing the outbreak level to jump two levels instead of one.

Pandemic: On the Brink will retail for $30 and be released in Q3 2009. Owners of a first edition of Pandemic will want to take advantage of a card swap offer to make sure their cards match those in the expansion; visit the link above for more details. This game has been updated on Gone Cardboard.

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