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20-400: The Batman Role-Playing Game is a role-playing game published by Mayfair Games in 1989. The Batman Role-Playing Game is a superhero system, a version of the second edition DC Heroes rules abbreviated for novice players and focusing on Batman and Gotham City . In addition to game rules and game-mastering advice, it includes statistics for Batman and all his friends and enemies, and

40-694: A bat emblem on it." Mayfair Games Mayfair Games was founded in 1981 by Darwin Bromley in Chicago , Illinois , United States . The company was created to publish Empire Builder , a railroad game designed by Bromley and Bill Fawcett . In 1982, Mayfair Games expanded its focus to include Role Aids , a line of role-playing game supplements. In 1993, Mayfair was sued by TSR, Inc. , who argued that Role Aids violated their 1984 trademark agreement, being advertised as compatible with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons . The court found that some of

60-453: A description and map of Gotham City. There are two scenarios: an introductory solo and a full scenario for a group of players featuring the Joker . The Batman Role-Playing Game was designed by Jack A. Barker, Greg Gorden , and Ray Winninger , and was published by Mayfair Games in 1989 as a 192-page book. The game, a simplified version of DC Heroes , was released in 1989 to coincide with

80-856: A newly created subsidiary of the Asmodee Group . Former CEO Pete Fenlon left Mayfair Games to become the CEO of the new company. Larry Roznai was the last CEO of Mayfair games. He joined the company in 1999 as a board member , president, and chief operating officer . On February 9, 2018, Mayfair announced it had sold all of its assets to the North American branch of Asmodée Éditions , and would be shutting down. Rights to some Mayfair titles are no longer retained by Asmodée. This list includes games published by Mayfair and games licensed by Mayfair from other publishers. Asmod%C3%A9e %C3%89ditions Asmodee (formerly known as Asmodée Editions )

100-488: Is a French publisher of board games , card games and role-playing games (RPGs). Founded in 1995 to develop their own games and to publish and distribute for other smaller game developers, they have since acquired numerous other board game publishers. A division, Twin Sails Interactive (formerly Asmodee Digital), publishes video game adaptations of Asmodee games. Asmodee was founded in 1995 by Marc Nunès, with

120-677: The Batman film. The second edition of the DC Heroes rules, published in 1989, incorporated material from the Batman Role-Playing Game and the Superman Sourcebook . These materials also included rules for advantages, drawbacks, and gadgetry. Paul Mason reviewed Batman Role-Playing Game for Games International magazine, and gave it 3 stars out of 5, and wrote that "it's not the perfect medium to simulate

140-533: The Mayfair Games trademark. Pete Fenlon became the CEO of Mayfair Games in 2007 to oversee a major reorganization with a refocusing on core brands, most importantly the Catan family of games. In 2013, Mayfair reported selling more than 750,000 Catan-related products. In January 2016, Mayfair transferred all publishing, commercial, and brand rights for all English-language Catan products to Catan Studio,

160-556: The UK, in 2010. In January 2014, Asmodee was acquired by the French private equity firm Eurazeo for €143 million . Under Eurazeo's ownership, Asmodée became more active in its acquisitions of other board game publishers and developers. Asmodee currently distributes games under the imprints Descartes Editeur and Eurogames , acquired when they purchased Descartes. However, they have not used these imprints for any original publications since

180-500: The better Batman comics, but it has potential". Ken Cliffe reviewed The Batman Role-Playing Game for White Wolf #20, rating it 4 out of 5 overall, and wrote that "although there is no desperate need for the Batman RPG, the game still finds a niche in the game industry. I recommend it to all Batfans, whether you own DC Heroes [or] not". In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games , game critic Rick Swan liked

200-587: The book publisher Aconyte in 2020 to publish tie-in works. In October 2020, Asmodee announced that they sold British-based board game, puzzle and book publishing company The Lagoon Group to American game company University Games and placed Lagoon under their UK-based subsidiary University Games UK. The company acquired Board Game Arena , a digital tabletop simulator, in February 2021, for which they plan to adapt their games to add to its available library. In September 2021, PAI Partners announced that Asmodee

220-530: The first time they entered the Nordic and Dutch game business Two years later Enigma was fully absorbed into Asmodee and annoucued that they rebranded the company to Asmodee Nordic. Eurazeo began searching for a potential buyer for Asmodee in early 2018, and announced in July 2018 that it was selling the company to another French private equity firm, PAI Partners at a price of about €1.2 billion . Asmodee launched

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240-770: The formation of Fantasy Flight Interactive, a division of the merged companies to bring more of Fantasy Flight's physical board games to digital implementations. Among the games, developed by the studio were The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game and The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth . However, as part of company-wide layoffs, the Fantasy Flight Interactive division was closed down in January 2020 and

260-512: The game, saying, " Batman is both a nice introduction to role-playing and a competent simulation of the Caped Crusader's adventures." But although Swan gave this game a rating of 3 out of 4, he noted that Batman was essentially a stripped down DC Heroes game, and suggested "I can't think of a single reason anyone shouldn't skip this and go directly to DC Heroes , with the exception of collectors who need to own every last product with

280-453: The idea to not only develop their own board games but to reach out to other smaller publishers of board games and offer to publish and distribute for them, primarily in France. One of the company's early successes was Jungle Speed , which they acquired in 1998 and promoted heavily to various toy stores and retail outlets in France, selling over 4 million copies. In 2003, the company obtained

300-541: The line violated the trademark, but the line as a whole did not violate the agreement, and Mayfair continued publishing the line until the rights were bought by TSR. In 1996, Mayfair Games became the publisher of The Settlers of Catan in the US. The company shut down for financial reasons in 1997 but was subsequently bailed out by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE), who purchased most of their assets and restarted operations as Ironwind, Inc. This new company operates publicly under

320-436: The mobile version of The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game was never released. Following the closure of Fantasy Flight Interactive, by February 2020, Asmodee announced that it was opening up its library of board games to be made into digital versions through licensing options to any developer. On 11 February 2021, Asmodee announced acquisition of digital multiplayer board game platform, Board Game Arena. Asmodee Digital

340-728: The purchase. In August 2014, Asmodee agreed to a merger with American board game publishers Days of Wonder . Later that year, they also merged with Fantasy Flight Games . In January 2016, Asmodee acquired the English language rights to the Catan games from Mayfair Games , creating a new company Catan Studio, Inc. Also on the 27th in that same month, Asmodee announced that they had acquired Nordic/Dutch-based European board games and cards developer Bergsala Enigma which it will be rebranded to its original name Enigma Distribution, thrust Asmodee expanded their operations into Eastern Europe and

360-550: The rights to publish the French version of the Pokémon Trading Card Game , which further helped in their sales outreach. Around 2007, Nunès directed Asmodee towards the European and international market. The company gained a 40% investment from Montefiore Investment, which helped them acquire additional small publishers. Acquisitions during this period include Esdevium, the largest hobby games distributor in

380-471: The software libraries that Days of Wonder had crafted for their digital version of Ticket to Ride . As of January 2017, the company had published digital versions of Mysterium and Potion Explosion in addition to existing titles published by their acquired companies. Philippe Dao, the chief marketing officer for Asmodee Digital, stated that they anticipated to have 20 more games out by the end of 2017. In October 2017, Asmodee and Fantasy Flight announced

400-685: Was up for sale for 2 billion euros. Embracer Group in December 2021 launched a takeover bid for €2.75 billion, which would make it a ninth operating group within Embracer. During this announcement, they also revealed acquiring the online retail site Miniature Market sometime in 2021. Embracer Group officially completed its takeover of Asmodee on 8 March 2022. In addition to its physical publishing rights, Asmodee began developing video games based on their board game properties for personal computers and mobile gaming . Many of these games were built atop

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