Pandemic
Can you play five players with In the Lab but without On the Brink?
The designer explained this in 2014 and 2015; one player disagreed that it can be played at all, which is true only as a house rule.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-03-02
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-03-03
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2014-07-21
- Scorpion0x17 · Community · 2015-03-04disagrees
Not as intended. Testing showed that the size of the event deck matters a lot at higher player counts, and the base game plus In the Lab does not provide enough events for five. The designer's position is that 5-player play depends on On the Brink; playing without it is a house variant.