Kenneth Hite
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Kenneth Hite (born September 15, 1965) is a writer and role-playing game designer. He holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in Cartography. He has been writing games since 1981 and full-time since 1995. He writes the "Suppressed Transmission" column for Pyramid magazine, which has been collected into the volumes Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast and Suppressed Transmission 2: The Second Broadcast, as well as the "Out of the Box" column for the GamingReport. He was the line editor for Last Unicorn Games' Star Trek RPG. He also contributed a guest comic strip for Dork Tower in 2004.
Hite wrote or contributed to several GURPS supplements:
- GURPS Alternate Earths
- GURPS Alternate Earths II
- GURPS Cabal
- GURPS Horror (Third Edition)
- GURPS Infinite Worlds (Winner of the 2005 Origins Award for Role-Playing Game Supplement of the Year[1])
- GURPS WWII: Weird War II
- GURPS Y2K
as well as supplements for other role-playing games:
- Mage: The Sorcerors Crusade (for Mage: The Ascension)
- Cainite Heresy (for Vampire: The Dark Ages)
- Back East: The South (for Deadlands)
- Dubious Shards (which includes an adventure for Delta Green)
- Secrets of the Ruined Temple (for Mage: The Awakening)
Hite is also one of many contributors to the book Gamemastering Secrets, which won the 2002 Origins Award for Best Game Aid or Accessory.[2]
In February 2008, Pelgrane Press published Hite's Trail of Cthulhu, a role-playing game using the GUMSHOE system developed by Robin Laws.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Origins Award Winners (2005). Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
- ^ Origins Award Winners (2002). Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
- ^ The GUMSHOE RPG. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
