Have Games, Will Travel #101

Interview with Kenneth Hite at GenCon 2007

0:37 - I sat down with frequent guest Kenneth Hite at GenCon
to talk about what we saw at the show that excited us.

1:26 - This show is a member of the Goblin Broadcast Network.

1:33 - Ken and I weren't able to do this at GenCon last year,
as he was at Ropecon in Finland. He's glad to be back.

3:34 - Both of us were tremendously impressed by Jason
Morningstar's Grey Ranks, a game about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

6:12 - Ken got a glimpse at Julia Ellingboe's Steal Away
Jordan, a game about slavery in the antebellum American South. I
had the opportunity to play in a demo of it, and it deeply
affected me as well.

10:13 - I tried to pick up The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
from Pinnacle, but it was sold out.

11:50 - Neither of us have a had chance to read Monte Cook's
World of Darkness or Changeling: The Lost from White Wolf, but
they look great.

12:49 - Both of us have had a chance to look at Blossoms Are
Falling, the newest supplement Burning Wheel supplement, covering
Heian-era Japan.

13:47 - We talk about the Ashcan Front, using Paul Czege's
Acts of Evil as an example.

16:09 - Oh yeah, and Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition was
announced, but we don't know that much specific about it. That
doesn't stop us from speculating.

20:33 - Edited by James Lowder, Hobby Games: The 100 Best is
a great collection of essays by one hundred game designers about
their favorite games. We recommend it, and not just because Ken
is one of those hundred.

23:58 - Both us were jazzed by different parts of
Post-Apocalyptic Hero, the latest Hero System genre book.

24:36 - In the quick hits segment we talk about the Pirate's
Guide to Freeport, Dirty Secrets, The Committee for the
Exploration of Mysteries, and Blood and Bronze.

27:23 True to form, Ken manages a seamless segue to talk
about the forthcoming Trail of Cthulhu before we go.

28:42 - Don Dehm from the Parsec Award-winning Pulp Gamer
podcast says hello.

28:48 - I'll be back next episode with my interview with
Monte Cook for Inside the Game Designers Studio.

--Paul

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