Ken Cliffe

Ken Cliffe is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. He is known primarily as the author and developer for the third edition of Ars Magica, and as co-author and developer of the Trinity, Hunter: The Reckoning and "new" World of Darkness role-playing games.

Career Villains and Vigilantes Ken Cliffe began his career writing supplements in support of Fantasy Games Unlimited's role-playing game, Villains and Vigilantes, including Vigilantes International, which was published much later as part of a revival of the line. He was credited with developing the supplements he authored into a coherent universe for the game.

White Wolf Publishing Cliffe later came to White Wolf Publishing, contributing to the second book it published: The Campaign Book Volume One: Fantasy (1990). Cliffe was the line editor on Ars Magica for the majority of the time the game was in publication at White Wolf, and developed and authored the third edition of Ars Magica (1992). which concentrates on the Chronicles of Darkness setting and character creation rules for the Storytelling system.

In 2008 and 2009, White Wolf released the board games Hunter: Deadly Prey and Monster Mayem, also designed by Cliffe.