An excellent article on German board gaming perfection: Settlers of Catan

[thewayne]

It is an excellent game and was created by a dentist. I really like German games because they're frequently not zero-sum games, which is for me to get $100, you have to lose $100.

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/17-04/mf_settlers?currentPage=all