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Mayfair Games was an American publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games that also licensed Euro-style board games to publish them in English. The company licensed worldwide English-language publishing rights to The Settlers of Catan series between 1996 [ 1 ] and 2016.
It was adapted from Mayfair's Encounters card game. [1] The base set included 450 cards. [1] It was sold in 100-card fixed starter decks and 15-card booster packs. [2] The Wheel of Time expansion was pushed back to a late summer release to coincide with release of a Robert Jordan novel, but neither it nor the World of Aden expansion ever materialized.
Paull also liked the component artwork, calling it "of a good standard, though the backs of the cards, as in all Mayfair games, are plain except for the Mayfair logo." He thought the game was a good family game, saying, " "Sanctuary will appeal to those seeking an uncomplicated game for all age ranges from twelve years old upwards. The rules ...
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The game rules for Underground is an adaptation of the Mayfair Exponential Game System, originally developed at Mayfair Games for the earlier DC Heroes roleplaying game depicting the DC Universe. However the rules were modified to depict lower-powered characters in a deadlier setting. The Underground game books had color-coded text.
The original game was released in 1995 by Mayfair Games and contained 517 cards (363 standard size, 154 long) sold in 60-card starter decks and 15-card booster packs. [2] [3]: 4 The starter decks consisted of 5 rare cards, 19 uncommon cards, and 36 common cards, and booster packs consisted of 1 ultra-rare card, 1 rare card, 5 uncommon cards, and 8 common cards. [2]
The 1989 Mayfair edition of the game includes: One 54-card deck, composed of six families of nine mobsters drawn from historical gangs: The Moran Gang (headed by Bugs Moran) The New York Mob; The Capone Mob (headed by Al Capone) Murder, Inc. The Purple Gang; The Bank Robbers (including Bonnie and Clyde, Alvin Karpis, John Dillinger, and Ma Barker)
Appelcline noted that TSR soon reopened a legal dispute with Mayfair starting with their publication of City-State of the Invincible Overlord and that "Mayfair's publication of Demons had probably cranked up the importance of the case, since it went in the face of TSR's attempts to make their game more 'mother friendly'; as a result, Demons ...