Kenneth Hite shot and wounded, but he's OK.

Bedrockgames · Jan 7, 2023

FitzTheRuke said:
For the slow and dim-witted: Who is Kenneth Hite?

Others have posted but just so you can have a sense of his significance, this is from his wikipedia entry:

.... Hite has contributed extensively to the GUMSHOE System, as author of Trail of Cthulhu, and the supplements Shadows Over Filmland, Rough Magicks, Bookhounds of London, and Mythos Expeditions; also the RPG Night's Black Agents and its major campaign The Dracula Dossier.

Previously, Hite wrote or contributed to several GURPS supplements, including:

GURPS Alternate Earths,

GURPS Alternate Earths II,

GURPS Cabal,

GURPS Horror (Third Edition incorporating Nightmares of Mine material in 2002, also Fourth Edition in 2011),

GURPS Infinite Worlds (Winner of the 2005 Origins Award for Role-Playing Game Supplement of the Year[12]),

GURPS WWII: Weird War II,

and GURPS Y2K.

In addition, he worked on the Decipher/Last Unicorn Star Trek RPGs

Star Trek RPG Player's Guide (with Mathew Colville, Steven S. Long and Don Mappin) (2002),

Starfleet Operations Manual (2003),

All Our yesterdays (with Steve Kenson, James Kiley, S. John Ross and Steven S. Long) (2000),

and Planetary Adventures (1999).

He has also contributed to the Nephilim games

Secret Societies (1995),

Major Arcana (1997),

and Gamemaster's Companion (with Shannon Appel, Adrian Czajkowski, and Ross Isaacs) (1996);

as well as to supplements for other role-playing games like:

Adventures Into Darkness (for Hero System and Mutants & Masterminds),

Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade (for Mage: The Ascension),

Crusade Lore (for Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade) (with Phil Brucato and Wayne Peacock) (1998),

Cainite Heresy (for Vampire: The Dark Ages),

Nightmares of Mine (for Rolemaster) (with John Curtis) (1999),

Back East: The South (for Deadlands),

Dubious Shards (which includes an adventure for Delta Green),

Secrets of the Ruined Temple (for Mage: The Awakening),

Day after Ragnarok (for Savage Worlds and Hero System),

Wild Talents RPG (with Dennis Detwiller, Greg Stolze and Shane Ivey) (2010),

and Grim War (for Wild Talents RPG) (with Greg Stolze) (2010).

Books by Hite:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated (with Sheperd Hendrix) (2009)

The Antarctic Express (with Christina Rodriguez) (2009)

Cthulhu 101 (with John Kovalic) (2009)

Where the Deep Ones Are (with Andy Hopp) (2008)

Cliffourd the Big Red God (with Andy Hopp) (2011)

Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales (2008)

The Nazi Occult (with Darren Tan) (2013)

The Cthulhu Wars: The United States' Battles Against the Mythos (with Kennon Bauman) (2016)

He also has the Tour De Lovecraft books which I really enjoyed. He has a podcast with Robin Laws as well that is very good.

ilgatto · Jan 7, 2023

darjr said:
Kenneth Hite was shot and wounded on his way home. He's fine FYI but what a harrowing story!

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Say what you want, but the guy does know how to tell a story!

Godspeed to you, Mr. Hite.

Morrus · Jan 7, 2023

FitzTheRuke said:
For the slow and dim-witted: Who is Kenneth Hite?

Sometimes, when in a bereavement thread or a sympathy thread, just Google it, eh? There's a time and place.

FitzTheRuke · Jan 7, 2023

Ah. While I have sold many of his games in my 29 years as a retailer, his name did not stick in my head. Robin Laws I know. I'm not much of a podcast guy, but I might want to check that out.

FitzTheRuke · Jan 7, 2023

Morrus said:
Sometimes, when in a bereavement thrad or a sympathy thread, just Google it, eh? There's a time and place.

It wasn't just for me that I asked (though the self-deprecation was intended), but I asked also for anyone else who reads the thread who doesn't know the name off the top of their heads. In addition, I thought that it would be more interesting to find out what the EN community thought about the fellow at the same time as finding out who he is. As he sounds like he's fine, while I certainly sympathize for his ordeal, I didn't think that this thread qualified as a bereavement thread. I'll have to defer to your judgement on that one.