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Ken Hite Is Lead Designer of VAMPIRE 5th EDITION!
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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7715441" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>A few days behind the news curve on this one - apologies! Veteran game designer Kenneth Hite, author of <em>Trail of Cthulhu</em> and <em>Night's Black Agents</em>, has been revealed as the lead designer on <em>Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition</em>. Hite announced it via social media, following a live announcement at a <em>World of Darkness</em> event in Berlin -- [HQ]"Now it can be revealed: I am the Lead Designer for VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE 5th Edition. Some pretty big Doc Martens to fill."[/HQ] There's not a lot more info available yet, but I'll report it as I hear it. [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]</p><p></p><p>He made a few other comments on social media:</p><p></p><p><strong>Lore:</strong> [HQ]"It's still in the World of Darkness but it's very much about the 21st century. Our goal is to make it a (dark and horrific) great on-ramp."[/HQ]</p><p></p><p><strong>More on lore changes:</strong> [HQ]"Mostly timeline advancement but everything you ever read in V:tM was already explicitly from an unreliable narrator."[/HQ]</p><p></p><p><strong>Mechanics:</strong> [HQ]"Still uses d10s but not Storyteller. So far."[/HQ]</p><p></p><p><strong>Other World of Darkness games:</strong> [HQ]"I'm only doing VAMPIRE. Other games are other games by other designers."[/HQ]</p><p></p><p><strong>On Pelgrane Press:</strong> [HQ]"I won't have a lot of time for Pelgrane work in the near future."[/HQ]</p><p><span style="color: #14171A"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #14171A"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span><strong>On vampires:</strong> Hite once said [HQ]"If it were up to me, nobody would ever get to play the good vampire again in any medium. It is, sadly, not up to me."[/HQ] When somebody rather aggressively asked about this in the context of this news, he replied that [HQ]"Vampires are monsters, but in V:tM the possibility of moral redemption is not entirely remote."[/HQ]<span style="color: #14171A"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #14171A"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span><span style="color: #14171A"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #14171A"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #14171A"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #14171A"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]111047[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 7715441, member: 1"] A few days behind the news curve on this one - apologies! Veteran game designer Kenneth Hite, author of [I]Trail of Cthulhu[/I] and [I]Night's Black Agents[/I], has been revealed as the lead designer on [I]Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition[/I]. Hite announced it via social media, following a live announcement at a [I]World of Darkness[/I] event in Berlin -- [HQ]"Now it can be revealed: I am the Lead Designer for VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE 5th Edition. Some pretty big Doc Martens to fill."[/HQ] There's not a lot more info available yet, but I'll report it as I hear it. [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] He made a few other comments on social media: [B]Lore:[/B] [HQ]"It's still in the World of Darkness but it's very much about the 21st century. Our goal is to make it a (dark and horrific) great on-ramp."[/HQ] [B]More on lore changes:[/B] [HQ]"Mostly timeline advancement but everything you ever read in V:tM was already explicitly from an unreliable narrator."[/HQ] [B]Mechanics:[/B] [HQ]"Still uses d10s but not Storyteller. So far."[/HQ] [B]Other World of Darkness games:[/B] [HQ]"I'm only doing VAMPIRE. Other games are other games by other designers."[/HQ] [B]On Pelgrane Press:[/B] [HQ]"I won't have a lot of time for Pelgrane work in the near future."[/HQ] [COLOR=#14171A][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR][B]On vampires:[/B] Hite once said [HQ]"If it were up to me, nobody would ever get to play the good vampire again in any medium. It is, sadly, not up to me."[/HQ] When somebody rather aggressively asked about this in the context of this news, he replied that [HQ]"Vampires are monsters, but in V:tM the possibility of moral redemption is not entirely remote."[/HQ][COLOR=#14171A][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#14171A][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR][CENTER][ATTACH=FULL]111047[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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