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Stevenson At Play



Famous as the author of such great works of literature as Treasure Island¸ Kidnapped¸ and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde¸ Robert Louis Stevenson was also a dedicated war gamer. Stevenson at Play¸ one of the lesser-known works of this "Grandfather of Modern Wargaming¸" describes a complex strategic wargame that the author and his stepson¸ Samuel Lloyd Osbourne¸ played in the early 1880s.

Skirmisher's edition of Stevenson at Play includes an Introduction by Osbourne¸ a Foreword by publisher and wargame designer Michael O. Varhola¸ and several period pieces of art¸ including some hand-drawn sketches by Stevenson himself. This download includes low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions of both its interior pages and cover surfaces.

This book is part of a thematic series of works on miniatures wargaming published by Skirmisher that includes the H.G. Wells books Little Wars and Floor Games ¸ the company's spinoff Little Orc Wars rules¸ and the Quactica miniatures rules.


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