For Day 11, RPGaDay asks who is my favourite RPG writer?
Again, a tough question, as there are so many great RPG writers. It’s hard to pick one, but I’d have to say mine is Kenneth Hite.
I met Ken at Gen Con back over fifteen years ago when I was a freelance RPG writer myself and a small group of us would hang out together at the conventions, as we all hunted for work.
Since that time, Ken has become one of the top RPG writers in the industry. Check out the list of his countless contributions. He’s also been nominated for and won many awards through the years.
Ken is an expert in all things Lovecraftian and most things historical, which has a special place in my heart. He’s a prolific writer, has a great style and is a gamer at heart, so everything he produces is focused on useful, relevant and immersive materials for your games.
You can listen to Ken and Robin (Laws) Talk About Stuff. Or, if you’d like to check out some of Ken’s most recent work, check out the recent The Dracula Dossier for Night’s Black Agents. There’s also his regular series Ken Writes About Stuff.
That’s only scratching the surface, but if horror is part of your games, you’ve undoubtedly used something created by Ken.
Justin Schmid
Justin started tabletop gaming in 1983 with Basic D&D (red box) and never looked back. He runs and plays in a wide variety of games, including Savage Worlds, Dungeon World, Trail of Cthulhu and many, many more.
He also writes professionally for role-playing games, including writing and creating Night's Edge an Alternate Reality Universe for Cyberpunk 2020. He went on to write eight more adventures and sourcebooks in the Night's Edge line, adding vampires and other supernatural perils to the already dangerous world of Cyberpunk.
As a freelance writer, he wrote The Bermuda Triangle for Call of Cthulhu, Shadows of the Mind, and Psi Wars for Conspiracy X and contributed to Last Unicorn's Star Trek RPG, as well as to Cybergeneration sourcebooks, and many other games.
When he's not creating imaginary worlds for his daughter, he's running games for his friends and writing new adventures or designing new game systems. He currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.