Many people know of H.G. Wells as one of the fathers of science-fiction. He was born in London, England and lived from 1866-1946. He has written a number of popular books dealing with Time Travel (The Time Machine), Alien Invasions (War of the Worlds), and horrors of science gone awry (Island of Dr. Moreau, Food of the Gods) are just to name a few. As a man, he deeply cared of humanity and was troubled by the political and socio-economical development of that time. Some of his other works go deeper into this new climate of change.
In 1914 he published a book called "Little Wars" which laid the foundation for tabletop RPGs. His game focused on re-enacting famous military battles through the use of miniatures, and seeing the outcomes changed by rules of chance and the players moves. As you can see this has inspired many of the other tabletop miniature games readily available on the market from Heroclix and Mage Knight to Warhammer Fantasy and Iron Kingdoms.
Dungeons and Dragons also at one point had it own miniatures line in Chainmail. It resurface twiced during the eras of 2nd and 3rd Edition. Today the use of minature are strongly incouraged in elements of RPGs
You can read his full result along with audio here, bought to you by Public Literature.org.
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