Ken Hite (blog) is one of those peculiar rpg writers who's become-a-figure-of-note in the post-3rd-edition DnD phase. [This random pseudo-English means? It means the time period when the hobby as a whole accepted that system could be divorced from game-world. A sort of golden age when normal gamers began to have a shared vocabulary for breaking down system and play style. Started around 2000 when the third edition of DnD was published.] I would cite Monty Cook as the leader of this trend, with Jonathan Tweet as its little recognized grandfather and people like Baker, Baur, Mearls, and Wyatt (if he ever leaves WotC anyway) as other examples.
He's done a lot of work for a lot of different systems, mostly Call of Cthulhu and Illuminati-type-World-of-Darkness. He also says good things about GURPS, which makes him an iconoclast and deserving of our respect. [You don't suppose he says good things about GURPS because they hire him to write books?]
He's currently going through all the HP Lovecraft stories and, while I've read most since made that a project to do last year, I've been enjoying the excursion and having a structured way to fill out my reading. And I found Cool Air, which is quite fun and less Lovecraftily hard to read. Except for the bad spanish accents he gave some of the characters.
[You should insert a reference to Poe or something here, to make sure that people understand that you understand that he was drawing on different traditions. But I don't understand it.]
Incidentally Hite's also got an infrequently-updated-column; it's probably standard reading for role-playing geeks, or would be if he updated more often.
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