History Creator / KennethHite

He also wrote the game review column "[[http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/outofthebox/ Out of the Box]]." Hite has a Website/LiveJournal at http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/ , and generates half of the podcast, [[http://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.]]

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Hite clearly has a keen interest in the wilder fringes of archaeology, especially in its early, wilder days. His work sometimes features such characters, good or bad, sometimes [[Franchise/IndianaJones wearing cool hats and/or wielding bullwhips]].

* CosmicHorrorStory... Well, Hite is an H.P. Lovecraft buff... Impressively, though, ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier'' Manages to be cosmic horror with very few Lovecraftean features.

* CosmicHorrorStory... Well, Hite is an H.P.Lovecraft buff...

Kenneth Hite (born September 15, 1965) is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''TabletopGame/TrailOfCthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the TabletopGame/HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He wrote the horror/spy thriller game ''TabletopGame/NightsBlackAgents'' (Gumshoe system), and the campaign setting ''TabletopGame/TheDraculaDossier''. He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

** In fact, he's written an entire book called [[{{Ghostapo}} ''The Nazi Occult'']], which is about... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin oh, you figure it out]].

Kenneth Hite (born September 15, 1965) is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''Trail of Cthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the TabletopGame/HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He wrote the horror/spy thriller game ''Night's Black Agents'' (''Gumshoe'' system), and the campaign setting ''TabletopGame/TheDraculaDossier''. He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

* AlternateUniverse: Hite wrote ''[=GURPS=] Alternate Earths'' and ''[=GURPS=] Alternate Earths 2'' for that game's third edition before being core writer on ''[=GURPS=] InfiniteWorlds''. Likewise, many of the worlds created in "Suppressed Transmission" would have details for dropping it into the TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds setting.

From 1998 to 2008, he wrote the column "Suppressed Transmission" for Steve Jackson Games' paid-access web magazine ''Pyramid''. This column, though ostensibly about RPG settings and gamemastering advice, turned out to be a wild ride through High Weirdness. It focused on four genres: [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories conspiracy]], [[RealityRetcon secret history]], {{Horror}}, and AlternateHistory. Hite generally picked a topic per column to explore through these lenses, ranging from seeming mundanities like Coca-Cola and chocolate, to mythological beasts, to historical oddities, to strange people of history, to Shakespearean meanderings, to full conspiracy theory weirdness. An early article, "Six Flags Over Roswell", showed one of his most effective frameworks: take one strange happening (here, the [[RoswellThatEndsWell supposed Roswell UFO crash]]) and ring a half-dozen variations on it into true bizzarity. One of Hite's key concepts for writing these columns (and other writing) is a technique he calls "bisociation": intentionally holding two contradictory notions in mind simultaneously (as a creativity exercise, not a pathology). Some of the "Suppressed Transmisson" columns were collected into two volumes by Steve Jackson Games, ''Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast'' and ''Suppressed Transmission 2'', and and are available both in as downloadable ebooks. Sadly, the rest of the columns were taken offline when Steve Jackson Games retired the ''Pyramid'' subscription site's archives to relaunch ''Pyramid'' as a monthly PDF magazine, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes and there are no current plans to re-issue them.]]

** In fact, he's written an entire book called [[{{Ghostapo}} ''The Nazi Occult'']], which is about ... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin oh, you figure it out]].

Kenneth Hite (born September 15, 1965) is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''Trail of Cthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the TabletopGame/HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He wrote the horror/spy thriller game ''Night's Black Agents'' (''Gumshoe'' system), and the campaign setting ''TabletopGame/TheDraculaDossier''. He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampiretheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

* AncientAstronauts
* AncientConspiracy
* AlternateHistory

* CosmicHorrorStory

From 1998 to 2008, he wrote the column "Suppressed Transmission" for Steve Jackson Games' paid-access web magazine ''Pyramid''. This column, though ostensibly about RPG settings and gamemastering advice, turned out to be a wild ride through High Weirdness. It focused on four genres: [[ConspiracyTheory conspiracy]], [[RealityRetcon secret history]], {{Horror}}, and AlternateHistory. Hite generally picked a topic per column to explore through these lenses, ranging from seeming mundanities like Coca-Cola and chocolate, to mythological beasts, to historical oddities, to strange people of history, to Shakespearean meanderings, to full conspiracy theory weirdness. An early article, "Six Flags Over Roswell", showed one of his most effective frameworks: take one strange happening (here, the [[RoswellThatEndsWell supposed Roswell UFO crash]]) and ring a half-dozen variations on it into true bizzarity. One of Hite's key concepts for writing these columns (and other writing) is a technique he calls "bisociation": intentionally holding two contradictory notions in mind simultaneously (as a creativity exercise, not a pathology). Some of the "Suppressed Transmisson" columns were collected into two volumes by Steve Jackson Games, ''Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast'' and ''Suppressed Transmission 2'', and and are available both in as downloadable ebooks. Sadly, the rest of the columns were taken offline when Steve Jackson Games retired the ''Pyramid'' subscription site's archives to relaunch ''Pyramid'' as a monthly PDF magazine, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes and there are no current plans to re-issue them.]]

* ConspiracyTheory

Kenneth Hite is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''Trail of Cthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the TabletopGame/HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He wrote the horror/spy thriller game ''Night's Black Agents'' (''Gumshoe'' system), and the campaign setting ''TabletopGame/TheDraculaDossier''. He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampiretheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

He also wrote the game review column "[[http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/outofthebox/ Out of the Box]]." Hite has a LiveJournal at http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/ , and generates half of the podcast, [[http://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.]]

He is an expert on the writings of Creator/HPLovecraft (and [[CthulhuMythos associated writers]]), and has written several books on the subject, including ''Cthulhu 101'', an introduction to the mythos, and a trio of illustrated "children's books:" ''Where the Deep Ones Are'', ''The Antarctic Express'', and ''Cliffourd the Big Red God''.

Kenneth Hite is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''Trail of Cthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the TabletopGame/HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He wrote the horror/spy thriller game ''Night's Black Agents'' (''Gumshoe'' system), and the campaign setting ''TabletopGame/TheDraculaDossier''. He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampiretheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

Kenneth Hite is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''Trail of Cthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He wrote the horror/spy thriller game ''Night's Black Agents'' (''Gumshoe'' system), and the campaign setting ''TabletopGame/TheDraculaDossier''. He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampiretheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

-> This is the very model of a Kenneth Hite conspiracy,\\

This is the very model of a Kenneth Hite conspiracy.
-->--'''Kenneth Hite''', "Suppressed Transmission: The Secret of My Success"

* TheKnightsTemplar

Kenneth Hite is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''Trail of Cthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He wrote the horror/spy thriller game ''Night's Black Agents'' (''Gumshoe'' system), and the campaign setting ''The Dracula Dossier''. He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampiretheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

-> [[PatterSong This is the very model]] of a Kenneth Hite [[ConspiracyTheory conspiracy]],\\
Mixed up between the [[Creator/DavidIcke Reptoids]] and the [[GodOfEvil Manichaean]] [[GodIsEvil heresy]],\\
It starts with lost [[{{Atlantis}} Lemuria]] and filters through the chaff a bit,\\
But soon involves a visit from a [[TheKnightsTemplar brazen head named Baphomet]];\\
The [[TheDaVinciCode Prieuré de Sion]] and the [[BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats Masons]] are pedestrian,\\
Until you add the [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Airships]] and their [[SpaceElves crews ultraterrestrian]]...\\

...In short, from [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis El Dorado]] to the bottom of [[AtlantisIsBoring the Thera sea]],\\
This is the very model of a Kenneth Hite [[AncientConspiracy conspiracy]].

Kenneth Hite is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''Trail of Cthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He wrote the horror/spy thriller game ''Night's Black Agents'' (''Gumshoe'' system), and the campaign setting ''The Dracula Dossier''. He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampiretheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

Kenneth Hite is an author and role-playing game designer. He has written the pulp-themed investigation RPG ''Trail of Cthulhu'' and the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], just-post-[[WorldWarII WWII]] setting ''Day After Ragnarok'' (for the HeroSystem and ''Savage Worlds''), as well as authoring such core TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[{{Sourcebook}} sourcebooks]] as the latest editions of ''GURPS Horror'' and ''GURPS InfiniteWorlds'' (and writing or contributing to several others). He has also written material for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', ''TabletopGame/VampiretheRequiem'', ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', and Last Unicorn Games' version of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG (for which he was also line editor).

* AprilFoolsDa: The first "Suppressed Transmission" column of April would generally be a song or poem parody.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Formulated "[[Quotes.ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Hite's Law]]", stating that any historical change used to create an AlternateHistory will tend towards filling the skies with airships. As he points out, taking this to its logical conclusion, this suggests that TheRoaringTwenties and TheThirties ''were actually'' those of an alternate history. As other common features of alternate histories are things like widespread totalitarian ideologies and global social upheaval, well, that would explain a lot about those decades.

-> [[PatterSong This is the very model]] of a Kenneth Hite [[ConspiracyTheory conspiracy]],
-> Mixed up between the [[Creator/DavidIcke Reptoids]] and the [[GodOfEvil Manichaean]] [[GodIsEvil heresy]],
-> It starts with lost [[{{Atlantis}} Lemuria]] and filters through the chaff a bit,
-> But soon involves a visit from a [[TheKnightsTemplar brazen head named Baphomet]];
-> The [[TheDaVinciCode Prieuré de Sion]] and the [[BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats Masons]] are pedestrian,
-> Until you add the [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Airships]] and their [[SpaceElves crews ultraterrestrian]]...

-> ...In short, from [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis El Dorado]] to the bottom of [[AtlantisIsBoring the Thera sea]],
-> This is the very model of a Kenneth Hite [[AncientConspiracy conspiracy]].

From 1998 to 2008, he wrote the column "Suppressed Transmission" for Steve Jackson Games' paid-access web magazine ''Pyramid''. This column, though ostensibly about RPG settings and gamemastering advice, turned out to be a wild ride through High Weirdness. It focused on four genres: [[ConspiracyTheory conspiracy]], [[RealityRetcon secret history]], {{Horror}}, and AlternateHistory. Hite generally picked a topic per column to explore through these lenses, ranging from seeming mundanities like Coca-Cola and chocolate, to mythological beasts, to historical oddities, to strange people of history, to Shakespearian meanderings, to full conspiracy theory weirdness. An early article, "Six Flags Over Roswell", showed one of his most effective frameworks: take one strange happening (here, the [[RoswellThatEndsWell supposed Roswell UFO crash]]) and ring a half-dozen variations on it into true bizzarity. One of Hite's key concepts for writing these columns (and other writing) is a technique he calls "bisociation": intentionally holding two contradictory notions in mind simultaneously (as a creativity exercise, not a pathology). Some of the "Suppressed Transmisson" columns were collected into two volumes by Steve Jackson Games, ''Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast'' and ''Suppressed Transmission 2'', and and are available both in as downloadable ebooks. Sadly, the rest of the columns were taken offline when Steve Jackson Games retired the ''Pyramid'' subscription site's archives to relaunch ''Pyramid'' as a monthly PDF magazine, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes and there are no current plans to re-issue them.]]

* AlternateUniverse -- Hite wrote ''[=GURPS=] Alternate Earths'' and ''[=GURPS=] Alternate Earths 2'' for that game's third edition before being core writer on ''[=GURPS=] InfiniteWorlds''. Likewise, many of the worlds created in "Suppressed Transmission" would have details for dropping it into the InfiniteWorlds setting.
* AprilFoolsDay - The first "Suppressed Transmission" column of April would generally be a song or poem parody.

* SpaceElves - As the various races of possibly space alien, possibly fae Ultraterrestrials.
* StupidJetpackHitler - One of Hite's go-to conspiracities is the supposed Nazi stronghold of Neuschwabenland, a region of Antarctica where the last remnants of the Third Reich went to build flying saucers and plot their comeback.
** {{Ghostapo}} - He's written an entire book called ''The Nazi Occult'', which is about... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin oh, you figure it out]].

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld - Formulated "[[Quotes.ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Hite's Law]]", stating that any historical change used to create an AlternateHistory will tend towards filling the skies with airships. As he points out, taking this to its logical conclusion, this suggests that TheRoaringTwenties and TheThirties ''were actually'' those of an alternate history. As other common features of alternate histories are things like widespread totalitarian ideologies and global social upheaval, well, that would explain a lot about those decades.

-> Mixed up between the [[DavidIcke Reptoids]] and the [[GodOfEvil Manichaean]] [[GodIsEvil heresy]],