by bookgirl1980
With regard to getting 2 epidemics in a row. This can happen, but just to make sure you give yourselves the best chance, make sure you separate the player deck into 5 (if that's how many epidemics you are playing) equal piles, and shuffle an epidemic card into each. This means the epidemics are relatively well spread out throughout the deck. Obviously you could get unlucky with one at the bottom of its pile and another at the top, but this should help your chances!Definitely agree to get really familiar with the base game - we were very well practised with it and it still took a lot of discussion and revision of all the new rules!