Pandemic
Can New Assignment bring back a role the CDC removed with Reassign Role?
The rulebook text and a later designer answer allow it; an earlier 2013 designer reply said otherwise and is superseded.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2013-09-18superseded
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2013-10-08superseded
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-06-26
Yes, in the solo game. The solo rules say a role removed by the CDC's Reassign Role is no longer available "except by using the Event New Assignment", and the designer later confirmed that New Assignment's "swap" wording allows it. An earlier 2013 designer reply said New Assignment swaps only with never-used roles, but the rulebook text and the newer answer override that.