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Does the New Assignment target choose the new role, and which roles are allowed?

The designer answered this directly on BoardGameGeek.

  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2011-12-25
  • JohnRayJr · Community · 2009-09-23
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2020-12-28
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2020-01-18
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2020-12-28
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2020-01-18
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2009-09-24
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2014-07-13

The player who plays the event picks the new role from the roles not currently held by a player. A role dropped earlier in the game is available again; "unused" means "not in use now". The Bio-Terrorist role cannot be taken, and the card cannot swap two players' roles directly.

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