2026.02.11 Whit Whitman Posting over at Facebook

We got an email today through the blog:

Ken is posting regularly on FB under Whit Whitman ( https://www.facebook.com/whit.whitman.2025 ) A regualr series of "Tales from a TSR Alumni: White Wolf Gen Con Parties Were WILD! by Ken "Whit" Whitman"

Good luck, and thanks for your great work!

Regards,

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Note: This email was sent via the Contact Form gadget on 

https://notanotherdime.blogspot.com

Now we do go in an periodically review our raison d'être on Facebook, so we fired up the old sparkbox and surfed the interwebs for any new news.

For the most part, not a surprise. A ton of self-promotion, as usual, and mostly stories hyping up Ken's time at TSR. You'd think he was there for decades with all of this "insider knowledge" he has. Really comes off of as an attempt to inflate his self-importance and connection to the various creatives from TSR's heyday. It really felt like a big page of ads in an attempt to legitimize his Legends of TSR endeavor.  

While we just skimmed for the most part we did read a good bit of a particular post. We don't want to put the entire body of the text here, but highlight a few key parts. The emphasis is ours and we cut out content to highlight some key segments, but otherwise did no editing to change context or order:

Tales from a TSR Alumni: I'm the BAD GUY in many people's stories by Ken "Whit" Whitman

Not because I meant to be. Because unmedicated ADHD is a wrecking ball with a smiley face painted on it. People want to believe in you. You're charming. You're full of ideas. You talk a great game. And then something falls apart, and they feel stupid for trusting you. That guilt turns into anger, and that anger turns you into the villain. Not because you were malicious. Because the wreckage showed up and you were the one holding the keys. That's a particular kind of shame. The kind where you know you didn't mean it, and you also know that doesn't matter. 

Today I'm ten years medicated. About a sixth of my life. The other five-sixths? Severe ADHD. Didn't know it.

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That confidence cost me. I had Kickstarters that failed. Not because I couldn't do the work. Because I couldn't manage the load. There's a difference, and nobody cares about the difference when they're waiting for something you promised.

Then Larry Elmore changed my life.

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For about ten years I worked hand-in-hand with him. We created his Kickstarter for "The Complete Elmore." Raised $300,000. We were supposed to get that book out in six months. Took closer to a year.

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He got so frustrated he looked me dead in the face and said: 

"You're going to go get medicated for ADHD, or I'm going to fire you."

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Getting medicated doesn't mean you take a pill and things start working. It took me about eighteen months before my brain settled into what I'd consider a safe path. Eighteen months of adjustment. Of figuring out what focus actually felt like after fifty-something years of never having it.

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I'm happy to be TEN YEARS medicated.

ADHD is a hell of a thing! 

XOXOX - Whit

Now we do not expect every, well really ANY reader, to pick up on we noticed right off the bat....the timing. According to this post, Ken has been medicated for the last decade, presumably since 2016, and now he's good. 

We call bullshit. Not that Ken's on medication and that Whit has a decade of being properly medicated behind him, but the general story he's trying to portray in this post, and to a larger extent, all the other posts on this page.

According to the layout of this post, Ken was not taking meds and therefor in the throes of unmedicated ADHD, resulting in an overconfidence that is the reason he "had Kickstarters that failed". Then Larry Elmore changed his life, working with him to get out another Kickstarter for the Complete Elmore. It was that process that led to the exchange where Larry told him "You're going to go get medicated for ADHD, or I'm going to fire you." Now, 10 years later, Ken is happy "figuring out what focus actually felt like after fifty-something years of never having it."

Complete and utter bullshit.

1st off, Kenny was born in 1967, according to a later post on this Facebook page. This makes him either 58 or 59 depending on when his birthday is. Starting ADHD meds 10 years ago would mean he was 48 or 49 when he started, which makes "fifty-something years of never having it." contradictory.

Now sure....maybe he's just rounding it up to 50 and now he's rounding up to 60....that's 10 years close enough.

Nope...still calling bullshit.

We cannot fixate on the specific start date of that collaboration with Larry Elmore, but the Kickstarter shows a projected fulfillment date of "August 2013" and if they thought they would "get that book out in six months" then we can assume that the Kickstarter was set to end in February of 2013.

The failed Kickstarters were before this collaboration, remember.....

....but they weren't.

We picked up this blog in response to the Knights of the Dinner Table: Live Action Series Kickstarter, arguably the 1st "failed" Kickstarter in the chain of failure that drew attention to Ken "Whit" Whitman, conveniently also a decade ago. KoDT: LAS had it's funding period December 8, 2013 to February 4, 2014.

Last I checked, these dates occur AFTER February-August 2013.

Aside: Ken logged in to Kickstarter yesterday, but no update!

So again, calling bullshit.

Well, maybe the whole before or after is just Kenny being confused. He was working on that project, got the advice, and then started medication, which is the crux of the post.

Nope... still bullshit. First of all, according to the timeline Kenny posted, the Elmore book took closer to a year to finish, which means he was working on that while he was soliciting for KoDT: LAS funding. If we take the timeline at face value and he started ADHD medication in the summer of 2013, AND it took him "Eighteen months of adjustment" then we could presume he's "adjusted" around the start of 2015.   

Our 1st post here was in August of 2015.....a full eight (8!) months into the year were he's "adjusted", according to his own words! Just read pretty much any post with a date of 2015 in the title.

So we currently have Kenny starting ADHD meds during fulfillment of The Complete Elmore, which was Summer/Fall of 2013. This was AFTER the failed Kickstarters, according to Kenny. We know these Kickstarters were AFTER The Complete Elmore, not before.....

......but really, is all this enough to call bullshit?

Not by itself, but we've been posting for 10 and a half years now and we remember.....again, emphasis is ours:

"The fact Ken pulled together Brothers Barbarian season 1 and 2 largely on his own (writing the scriipt, assembling the talent, finding the camera, crews etc) was damn impressive. True he ultimately never delivered BB2 but I was there when it was being shot in KY and to my eye it looked like a professionally run operation. They knocked that a thing out over a four day period and the logistics of doing that was made an impression. That coupled with Ken's apologies and talk of being on new meds for his ADHD and having turned over a new leaf... Hell, I believe in second chances. So when he came to us with a KODTLAS proof of concept teaser in his hand (all paid for, cast and shot by him from what I understood) it seemed ike a no brainer. Especially when he presented a short list of names of people who were going to be working with him. AND including a 'money guy' who was to monitor all the money."

This commentary from Jolly Blackburn was regarding a site visit he and Barbara Blackburn made to the set of filming for Brothers Barbarian Season 2 Episode 2....in September 2012. That episode was shown as airing simply in "2012". Pretty sure that if it aired in 2012, after Season 2 Episode 1, that it was filmed sometime before December 31, 2012.

Hmmm.......last time we checked 2012 is most definitely before 2013! None of Kenny's proposed timeline works out with reality and even IF we dismiss the timing and accept that he's been "adjusted" since 2016 (according to his post), we literally have a decades' worth of documentation that seems to indicate that Ken "Whit" Whitman has been anything but "adjusted" these last 10 years.

What seems more likely, that our main man is on the "up and up" since getting his meds right in 2015 (our math with his series of events) or 2016 (his math), or that he's been a scamming people since at least 2015 and this is just another attempt to show that he's turned a new leaf and someone you can hire to access VIPs for your convention? We literally just showed documentation of him claiming "improvement due to ADHD meds" (paraphrasing).

By all means, browse Not Another Dime, follow the links that still work, and make up your own mind....