Pandemic Legacy Season 1 Game

Pandemic Legacy is a cooperative campaign game with an overarching story-arc played through 12-24 sessions, depending on the group's performance. The game starts similarly to basic Pandemic, where a team of disease-fighting specialists race against time to travel the world, treat disease hotspots, and research cures for four plagues before they spiral out of control.

During a player's turn, they have four actions available, which they can use to move around the world, build research stations, treat diseases (removing one cube from the board; if all cubes of a color have been removed, the disease is eradicated), trade cards with other players, or find a cure for a disease (requiring five cards of the same color to be discarded while at a research station). Each player has a unique role with special abilities to assist in these actions. After taking their actions, players draw two cards, which can include epidemic cards that will place new disease cubes on the board, leading to outbreaks that spread disease cubes further and increase the panic level of a city, making it more expensive to travel to.

The game is played over a campaign, with each month offering two chances to achieve that month's objectives. If the players succeed, they move on to the next month, but if they fail, they have a second chance with more funding for beneficial event cards. During the campaign, new rules and components are introduced, sometimes requiring players to permanently alter the game components, such as writing on cards, ripping up cards, and placing permanent stickers on components. Characters can also gain new skills or suffer detrimental effects, and a character can even be lost entirely, making them unavailable for play.

The game components include 184 playing cards, 4 player pieces, 5 dossiers, 1 sticker sheet, 4 cure markers, 1 infection marker, 1 reminder marker, 1 outbreak marker, 96 plague cubes, 6 science labs, and 1 game board. The game is designed for 2-4 players and has a duration of approximately 60 minutes. The permanent changes made during the campaign ensure that every round is unique.

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