Which I think means we now have on board everyone who's run a game in this thread.

OMG, that was so long ago! I was still at my old publishing job, killing time while waiting for a sales-based bonus that I knew would be huge before decamping for greener pastures. Good times.

Here are the roles again...

CONTINGENCY PLANNER - The Contingency Planner may, as an action, take an Event card from anywhere in the Player Discard Pile and place it on his Role card.

Only 1 Event card can be on his role card at a time. It does not count against his hand limit.When the Contingency Planner plays the Event card on his role card, remove this Event card from the game (instead of discarding it).

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 - The Dispatcher may, as an action, either:

move any pawn, if its owner agrees, to any city containing another pawn, or

move another player's pawn, if its owner agrees, as if it were his own.

The Dispatcher can only move other players' pawns; he may not direct them to do other actions, such as Treat Disease.

When moving a player's pawn as if it were your own, discard cards for Direct and Charter Flights from your hand. A hand discarded for a Charter Flight must match the city the pawn is moving from.

MEDIC - The Medic removes all cubes, not 1, of the same color when doing the Treat Disease action.

If a disease has been cured, he automatically removes all cubes of that color from a city, simply by entering it or being there. This does not take an action.

The Medic also prevents placing disease cubes (and outbreaks) of cured diseases in his location.

The Medic's automatic removal of cubes can occur on other player' turns, if he is moved by the Dispatcher or the Airlift Event.

OPERATIONS EXPERT - The Operations Expert may, as an action, either:

build a research station in his current city without discarding (or using) a City card, or

once per turn, move from a research station to any city by discarding any City card.

The Dispatcher may not use the Operation Expert's special move ability when moving the Operation Expert's pawn.

QUARANTINE SPECIALIST - The Quarantine Specialist prevents both outbreaks and the placement of disease cubes in the city she is in and all cities connected to that city. She does not affect cubes placed during setup.

SCIENTIST - The Scientist needs only 4 (not 5) City cards of the same disease color to Discover a Cure for that disease.

RESEARCHER - When doing the Share Knowledge action, the Researcher may give any City card from her hand to another player in the same city as her, without this card having to match her city. The transfer must be from her hand to the other player's hand, but it can occur on either player's turn.

OMG, that was so long ago! I was still at my old publishing job, killing time while waiting for a sales-based bonus that I knew would be huge before decamping for greener pastures. Good times.

Nostalgia! The BSG games were great fun.

I got my family to play Clank! this weekend. My younger daughter and I really liked it. My wife thought it was okay (she's kinda picky about games) and my older daughter wasn't very impressed (which is pretty much true for any game besides checkers)

I dibs Dispatcher this time. YOU ARE ALL MY PAWNS.

Since in my day to day work as an editor people ignore my advice at their peril, I feel I should play the Scientist. However, it seems like the Quarantine Specialist might work better with the Dispatcher. I'm happy to play either. Is it usually at random?

Officially it's random, but I like letting people choose and the computer version I'm using is choose rather than random.

Do you want to do Medic again, bt?

Scientist and Quarantine Specialist are both good. As Scientist you'll be concentrating on gathering cards to make cures. As Quarantine Specialist you'll be going to hot spots to keep them under control. Sort of offensive vs. defensive.

Scientist and Quarantine Specialist are both good. As Scientist you'll be concentrating on gathering cards to make cures. As Quarantine Specialist you'll be going to hot spots to keep them under control. Sort of offensive vs. defensive.

Well, as much as I'd like to be Kate Winslet, I think the reality is that I'm Elliot Gould. I choose Scientist.

*checks IMDB*

Man, Paltrow and Fishburne must have completely overwritten my memory of who else was in that movie.