This is an index of all the Mechanics & Meeples articles from 2005, followed by an index of all my RPGnet reviews from the same year.
Memoir ’44, The Seafarers of Catan, and Other Scenarios
Components:
The Collector Bug
The Problem with Colors
The Problem with Game Boxes
Redesigning Empire Builder, Part One
Shannon’s List of Do’s and Don’t’s for Game Component Design
Mechanics:
The Problem with Indie Games
The Problem with Luck
Redesigning Empire Builder, Part Two
Schools of Game Design
Design, by Game Type
Auctions:
The Auction Grand Unification Theory
The Marketplace
Personal Pieces
About Mechanics & Meeples
Five Games I’m Thankful For: ’05
Rants
The Collector Bug
Five Games I Don’t Like
The Problem with Colors
The Problem with Game Boxes
The Problem with Indie Games
The Problem with Luck
Supporting Your Locally Owned Game Store
Mini-Reviews
Five Games I Don’t Like
Five Games I’m Thankful For: ’05
2005 Games:
2005’s Top 70 Games
Games to Watch For: Essen ’05
Major Designer Discussions
Reiner Knizia:
Three Designers: Knizia, Kramer & Teuber
Wolfgang Kramer:
Three Designers: Knizia, Kramer & Teuber
Andrea Meyer:
Klaus Teuber:
Memoir ’44, The Seafarers of Catan, and Other Scenarios
Three Designers: Knizia, Kramer & Teuber
Martin Wallace:
Major Game Mentions
Empire Builder:
Redesigning Empire Builder, Part One
Redesigning Empire Builder, Part Two
Mall World:
Memoir ’44:
Memoir ’44, The Seafarers of Catan, and Other Scenarios
The Problem with Luck
Princes of the Renaissance:
The Settlers of Catan:
Memoir ’44, The Seafarers of Catan, and Other Scenarios
The Problem with Luck
Three Designers: Knizia, Kramer & Teuber
Struggle of Empires:
RPGnet Reviews by Designer
I’ve included lists of my reviews both by designer name and (further below) by game name. Looking back there are a few games I would rate higher now, including some by Reiner Knizia and Louis XIV. I’m considering updating and rereleasing those reviews at some time in the future.
Michail Antonov:
Caribbean (B+)
Keith Baker:
Gloom (B)
Christophe Boelinger:
Richard Borg:
Memoir ’44: Eastern Front (A)
Memoir ’44: Terrain Pack (C+)
Darwin Bromley:
Australian Rails (C)
Gunter Burkhardt:
James Cambias:
Bone Wars (C)
Derek Carver:
Farfalia (B)
Bruno Cathala:
Boomtown (B+)
Iglu Iglu (B)
Shadows over Camelot (A)
Eligio Cazzato:
Fredericus (C)
Leo Colovini:
Luca Coppola:
Oriente (C+)
Shaun Cranford:
Wench (C+)
Franz-Benno Delonge:
Goldbrau (C+)
Jim Doherty:
The Nacho Incident (C)
Who Stole Ed’s Pants? (C-)
Rob Dougherty:
Succession: Intrigue in the Royal Court (B-)
Rüdiger Dorn:
Louis XIV (B)
Stefan Dorra:
Glenn Drover:
Conquest of the Empire Classic (B-)
Conquest of the Empire II (A)
Chad Ellis:
Succession: Intrigue in the Royal Court (B-)
Bruno Faidutti:
Boomtown (B+)
Corruption (B-)
Democrazy (C)
Hollywood! Card Game (B)
Iglu Iglu (B)
Bill Fawcett:
Australian Rails (C)
Harry Gavitt:
Thorsten Gimmler:
No Thanks! (B+)
Hanno Girke:
Heinrich Glumpler:
Street Illegal (B+)
Darrell Hardy:
Runebound, Second Edition (B+)
Larry Harris:
Conquest of the Empire Classic (B-)
Jason Hawkins:
Parthenon (B)
Rob Heinsoo:
Claudia Hely:
Santiago (B)
Dirk Henn:
Alhambra Expansion 1: The Favor of the Viziers (B-)
Ronald Hofstatter:
KC Humphrey:
Havoc: The Hundred Years War (B)
Thomas Jansen:
UWO (C+)
Tom Jolly:
Camelot! (B-)
Diane Kelly:
Bone Wars (C)
Dietmar Keutsch:
Reiner Knizia:
Beowulf: The Legend (B+)
Blue Moon (B+)
Easy Come, Easy Go (B)
The Motley Fool’s Buy Low, Sell High Game (B)
Poison (C+)
Quo Vadis? (B)
Ra (A)
Tigris & Euphrates (A-)
Tower of Babel (B)
Tutankhamen (B-)
Lorenz Kutschke:
Serge Laget:
Doris Matthaus:
Primordial Soup (B+)
Marcel-Andre Cassola Merkle:
Verrater (B-)
Alan R. Moon:
King’s Breakfast (B+)
Ticket to Ride Europe (A)
Frederic Moyersoen:
Saboteur (A-)
Frank Nestel:
Primordial Soup (B+)
Nicolas Normandon:
Mall of Horror (B)
Harry Obst:
Harry’s Grand Slam Baseball Game (D+)
Andrew Parks:
Arthurian Legends (B-)
Parthenon (B)
Roman Pelek:
Santiago (B)
Wolfgang Penning:
Alhambra Expansion 1: The Favor of the Viziers (B-)
Michael Rieneck:
Around the World in 80 Days (B)
Uwe Rosenberg:
Larry Roznai:
Australian Rails (C)
Loren Roznai:
Australian Rails (C)
Michael Schacht:
China (A)
Hollywood! Card Game (B)
Jens-Peter Schliemann:
Caribbean (B+)
Silvano Sorrentino:
Dancing Dice (B+)
Reinhard Staupe:
David & Goliath (B-)
Klaus Teuber:
Barbarossa (B+)
Candamir: The First Settlers (B-)
Elasund: The First City (B+)
Martin Wallace:
Conquest of the Empire II (A)
Railroad Tycoon: The Board Game (B+)
Runebound, Second Edition (B+)
Aaron Weissblum:
King’s Breakfast (B+)
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede:
Die Fugger (B)
Alessandro Zucchini:
Lucca Citta (C)
Uncredited:
Letterflip (C+)
RPGnet Reviews by Name
Alexander the Great (B)
Alhambra Expansion 1: The Favor of the Viziers (B-)
Amazonas (B+)
Around the World in 80 Days (B)
Arthurian Legends (B-)
Im Auftrag des Konigs (B)
Australian Rails (C)
Barbarossa (B+)
Beowulf: The Legend (B+)
Blue Moon (B+)
Bohnanza: High Bohn Plus (B+)
Bone Wars (C)
Boomtown (B+)
Camelot! (B-)
Candamir: The First Settlers (B-)
Caribbean (B+)
Cartagena (B-)
China (A)
Conquest of the Empire Classic (B-)
Conquest of the Empire II (A)
Corruption (B-)
Dancing Dice (B+)
David & Goliath (B-)
Democrazy (C)
Dungeon Twister Basic Set (A)
Easy Come, Easy Go (B)
Elasund: The First City (B+)
Farfalia (B)
For Sale (A)
Fredericus (C)
Die Fugger (B)
Gavitt’s Stock Exchange (B)
Gloom (B)
Go West! (C+)
Goldbrau (C+)
Harry’s Grand Slam Baseball Game (D+)
Havoc: The Hundred Years War (B)
Hollywood! Card Game (B)
Iglu Iglu (B)
King’s Breakfast (B+)
Letterflip (C+)
Louis XIV (B)
Lucca Citta (C)
Mall of Horror (B)
Memoir ’44: Eastern Front (A)
Memoir ’44: Terrain Pack (C+)
The Motley Fool’s Buy Low, Sell High Game (B)
The Nacho Incident (C)
No Thanks! (B+)
Oriente (C+)
Parthenon (B)
Poison (C+)
Primordial Soup (B+)
Quo Vadis? (B)
Ra (A)
Railroad Tycoon: The Board Game (B+)
Runebound, Second Edition (B+)
Saboteur (A-)
Santiago (B)
Shadows over Camelot (A)
Street Illegal (B+)
Succession: Intrigue in the Royal Court (B-)
Three-Dragon Ante (A)
Ticket to Ride Europe (A)
Tigris & Euphrates (A-)
Tower of Babel (B)
Trump, Tricks, Game! (A)
Tutankhamen (B-)
UWO (C+)
Verrater (B-)
Wench (C+)
Who Stole Ed’s Pants? (C-)