Director: Mehmet Muhtar
Dracula: Atif Kaptan

The first direct identification of Bram Stoker's Dracula with Vlad the Impaler came (unsurprisingly, in retrospect) from the Turks, who after all were on the receiving end of Vlad's hobby. In 1928, Ali Riza Seyfi wrote a novel called Kazikli Voyvoda, or Impaler Voivode, xeroxing Stoker's novel with ( Read more... )

Patsy Cline notwithstanding (and how about that for a killer open) I'm feeling the love from the ENnie jury, who have seen fit to nominate me for, by my math, just shy of four ENnie awards.

Night's Black Agents is up for Best Writing, Best Game, Product of the Year, and Best Rules (which I can claim half of by now), along with my fractions of ( Read more... )

Welcome back to the Kenneth Hite Convention Schedule Pegboard And Former Blog.

Today, our topic is my schedule at the tri-state area's premier game convention, DEXCON 16, held as always in the swank confines of the Morristown, New Jersey Hyatt. I love all these things: DEXCON is a great, intense gaming show; Morristown, New Jersey is almost the ( Read more... )

So last weekend I flew to Los Angeles to run Night's Black Agents for artist and game designer (Vornheim is amazing) Zak S, impresario and writing mind behind the terrifically interesting and useful old-school game blog Playing D&D With Porn Stars. The idea being to run a new-school RPG for Zak and, well, porn stars. Zak, I should mention at this ( Read more... )

Having won the 2011 Golden Geek Award for Best RPG Supplement (for Bookhounds of London), I can assure you that it is a handsome, credible thing to have. And that it merely whets the appetite for more of the same. Which is why I should note that I've been nominated for two or four 2012 Golden Geek Awards, depending on how you count them ( Read more... )

It perhaps belatedly occurs to me that the "Martini, Straight Up" build of Night's Black Agents, in which you play spies still on the books at some agency or other, still errs slightly on the side of the lone wolf model. So consider this Official Optional Errata to that model ( Read more... )

I am remiss in noting that I'll be a Guest of Honor at DexCon 15 in delightful Morristown, New Jersey this weekend (July 5-8). DexCon doesn't have a big panel tradition, so we're starting out slow with one seminar on schedule ( Read more... )

For those of you who have somehow been occupying yourselves with other pursuits than my game design career, perhaps I should mention that a pre-order edition of my vampire spy thriller RPG Night's Black Agents is available now from Pelgrane Press. More on that below, where the horrid, horrid stench of commercialism belongs ( Read more... )

I just now finished going through the playtest responses for Night's Black Agents, and tweaking the manuscript accordingly. There's still a few thousand words to write, but I can see the end from here ( Read more... )

It's time for another roundup post! Links ahoy!

* Silvia Moreno-Garcia of the Innsmouth Free Press interviews me on Divers Topicks, including the squamous ones.

* Leaving Jeremy L.C. Jones to ask me writerly stuff at Booklife, not excepting the rugose side of things.

* Breaking things up, Andrew Girdwood of Geek Native interviews simonjrogers about my ( Read more... )