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Author Topic: Kenneth Hite is the lead designer for the new edition of Vampire  (Read 41291 times)

Luca

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Or so it seems:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10209363370308673&id=1456249627


For me, I must admit this has moved the new Vampire game from "who the fuck cares" to "well let's at least read the reviews".
I'm not interested in the premise anymore, but he's one of the few people who could actually manage to pull off the difficult feat of coming up with something interesting.
« Last Edit: May 12, 2017, 02:08:49 PM by Luca »

Ulairi
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2017, 02:07:28 PM »
Ken Hite writes great games. Are they getting back to it being more of a Katana/Monster porn game or is it still going to be super smuggy?

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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2017, 02:09:48 PM »
Probably all written in the female pronoun... (Trail of Cthulhu)

WOD and Hite deserve eachother.

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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2017, 02:13:34 PM »
Bruce Baugh is throwing a hissy fit over it. I'm going to buy the game just because of that.

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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2017, 02:24:21 PM »
Any game involving secret conspiratorial history and Kenneth Hite is going get consideration from me. I don't know if I can ever see myself running a Vampire game, but maybe he can make it look appealing. It might have some fun background ideas to steal as well.

I really don't care about shit like how reading a book that isn't written in their prefered pronoun makes people like Omega suffer genitalia shrinkage from discomfort it causes to their fragile snowflake egos. Either it will be a useful book or it won't.

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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2017, 02:28:45 PM »
Quote from: Omega;961922
Probably all written in the female pronoun... (Trail of Cthulhu)

WOD and Hite deserve eachother.

why does that matter?

Baulderstone

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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2017, 03:01:18 PM »
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why does that matter?

Some people just love to drag their identity politics into every conversation.

Dumarest

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Kenneth Hite is the lead designer for the new edition of Vampire
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2017, 04:12:57 PM »
Who is Kenneth Hite?

K Peterson

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Kenneth Hite is the lead designer for the new edition of Vampire
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2017, 04:20:01 PM »
C'mon, now. You can at least make an effort to google some shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Hite

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« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2017, 04:42:51 PM »
Vampire is too tied up in the 80s/90s zeitgeist, in a bad way, for me to be interested. There are many better systems for superheroes, politics and psychological horror. If I want to play vampires struggling to maintain their humanity, I have ready alternatives.

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« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2017, 04:43:35 PM »
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C'mon, now. You can at least make an effort to google some shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Hite

Didn't care enough to bother, but I'll click your link.

EDIT: Clicked it. I've never experienced any of the works listed. No opinion either direction. Thanks for the link.

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« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2017, 04:45:53 PM »
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If I want to play vampires struggling to maintain their humanity...

Added to my list of Sentences I Never Expected to Hear in My Life.

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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2017, 05:23:16 PM »
Ken Hite raises my interest to non-zero. Still infinitesimally small, but now non-zero. I haven't played Vampire since they went from softcover to hardcover. I lost interest in it fairly quickly when it became D&D with fangs, but pretentious. These days I don't have a player group I would run it for, so why buy the game?

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« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2017, 05:38:15 PM »
Don't care for his GUMSHOE politics.

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« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2017, 05:38:54 PM »
Quote from: Dumarest;961966
Added to my list of Sentences I Never Expected to Hear in My Life.


I'm not interested in "D&D with fangs, but pretentious" as Dave succinctly puts it. If I want to play a mass murdering psychopath, I already own a copy of Postal and its sequel Postal 2.