Kenneth Hite

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 from East Central University. 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 (previously for the GamingReport, now IndiePressRevolution). 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)
• GURPS WWII: Weird War II
• GURPS Y2K

as well as supplements for other role-playing games:

• Adventures Into Darkness (for Hero System and Mutants & Masterminds)
• Mage: The Sorcerer's 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)
• Day after Ragnarok (for Savage Worlds and Hero System)

Hite has also written several books:

• 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)
• Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales (2008)

Hite is also one of many contributors to the book Gamemastering Secrets, which won the 2002 Origins Award for Best Game Aid or Accessory. His essay, “Cthulhu’s Polymorphous Perversity”, appears in Cthulhurotica, published by Dagan Books, December 2010.

In February 2008, Pelgrane Press published Hite's Trail of Cthulhu, a role-playing game using the GUMSHOE System developed by Robin Laws. Hite won two silver ENnies in 2008 for his work on Trail of Cthulhu: Best Writing, and Best Rules (with Robin Laws). Hite has since added to the Trail of Cthulhu line with Shadows Over Filmland, Rough Magicks, and Bookhounds of London.