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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2005. For video games, see 2005 in video gaming.
Games released or invented in 2005
Game awards given in 2005
- Game of the Year and Gamers Choice for Best Miniatures (Origins Awards): WARMACHINE Apotheosis
- Games: Australia
Deaths
{| class="wikitable"
! Date || Name || Age || Notability
|-
|January 2
|Frank Kelly Freas
|82
|illustrator
|-
|January 29
|Ephraim Kishon
|80
|Writer who also designed games
|-
|March 9
|Redmond A. Simonsen
|62
|wargame designer
|-
|March 11
|Karen Wynn Fonstad
|59
|cartographer of fictional worlds
|-
|March 12
|Edward E. Simbalist
|61
|RPG designer, co-creator of Chivalry & Sorcery
|-
|June 6
|David C. Sutherland III
|56
|illustrator, known for work on Dungeons & Dragons
|-
|October 26
|Keith Parkinson
|47
| illustrator, known for work on Dungeons & Dragons
|}
See also
- 2005 in video gaming