Mayfair Games is a publisher of board and roleplaying games in the US and UK. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English, most notably the Settlers of Catan series licensed from Kosmos.

History

Mayfair games was founded in the early 1980s.

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, and Mayfair continued publishing the line until the rights were bought by TSR.

In 1997, Mayfair was bought by Iron Crown Enterprises

Best-Known Games

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

Board games

• Bang!
• Cosmic Encounter
• Entdecker
• Family Business
• Modern Art
• Quo Vadis?
• The Crayon Rails games - Empire Builder, Australian Rails, British Rails, Eurorails, India Rails, Nippon Rails, North American Rails, Russian Rails
• The Settlers of Catan games
• Sim City Card Game
• Tigris & Euphrates
• Underground

Roleplaying games

• Chill
• DC Heroes
• Blood of Heroes

External links

• Mayfair Games home page