Mayfair Games is a publisher of board and roleplaying games in the United States and United Kingdom. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English, most notably the Settlers of Catan series licensed from Kosmos. A board game is any game played on a board (that is, a premarked surface) with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across the board. ... A roleplaying game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. ... It has been suggested that Licensing (strategic alliance) be merged into this article or section. ... German-style board games, also known as Euro games, designer games, family strategy games or hobby games, are games designed to appeal to both older children and adults. ... Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber, first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. ... Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. ...

History

Mayfair games was founded in the early 1980s by Darwin Bromley in Chicago. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive, informally sometimes including the years 1979, 1990 and 1991. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

In 1982, Mayfair's War in the Falklands game came under attack in the English press, which went into high dudgeon about Mayfair rushing out their game before the blood was dry. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1993, Mayfair was sued by TSR, Inc., who argued that Mayfair's "Role Aids" line of game supplements, advertised as compatible with AD&D, violated their 1984 trademark agreement. While the court found that some of the line violated their trademark, the line as a whole did not violate the agreement^[1], and Mayfair continued publishing the line until the rights were bought by TSR. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... TSR, Inc. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1997, Mayfair was bought by Iron Crown Enterprises. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Iron Crown Enterprises has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games for over 20 years. ...

In 2003, Mayfair started publishing games by daVinci Games, beginning with the popular card game Bang!. In 2005 Mayfair also began distributing all of the games published by Phalanx Games. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // This article is about games played with cards. ... Bang! is a wild west themed card game designed by Emiliano Sciarra and released by Mayfair Games. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Games

This list includes both games originally published by Mayfair and games licensed by Mayfair from other publishers.

Board games

The Company War (1983)

• 18XX games: 1856 and 1870
• Amazonas
• Anno 1503
• The Company War (1983), based on the C. J. Cherryh novel Downbelow Station
• Cosmic Encounter
• Crayon rails games: Empire Builder, Australian Rails, British Rails, Eurorails, India Rails, Iron Dragon, Lunar Rails, Nippon Rails, North American Rails, Russian Rails; Agent of Change; Uncle Happy's Train Game
• Dragonriders of Pern
• Entdecker
• The Forever War, based on the Joe Haldeman book of the same name
• Hammer's Slammers
• Hue
• The Keep (1983)
• Morgan's Rifles
• Quo Vadis?
• Red Star Falling
• The Settlers of Catan games
• Tigris & Euphrates
• Wake Island
• War in the Falklands
• Xanth

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Card games

• Abracadabra (2004)^[2]
• Alibi
• Bang!
• Family Business
• Modern Art
• SimCity Card Game
• Theophrastus

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Roleplaying games

• Chill
• DC Heroes
• Underground

Chill is a role-playing game that captures the feel of late 20th-century horror films. ... DC Heroes is an out-of-print superhero role-playing game set in the DC Comics universe, published by Mayfair Games. ... Underground is a satirical role playing game released by Mayfair Games in 1993 as a commentary on the politics and society of the early 1990s as expressed through the year 2021. ...

External link

• Mayfair Games. Retrieved on February 20, 2006.

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References

1. ^ TSR, Inc. v. Mayfair Games, Inc., 1993 WL 79272 (N.D. Ill.)
2. ^ Tom Vasel (2005). Abracadabra. The Dice Tower. Retrieved on February 20, 2006.