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4/5/2003 Clinically Insane: G.I. Joe Official Handbook
Just picked this book up on the 3rd, thought of Cartoon Action Hour and picked it up. I couldn't get to the spectrum site yesterday. Luckly someone responded to a…
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Participants: Clinically Insane, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/5/2003 Darrin Kelley: Size question.
How would one make it so that a character could either grow or shrink as a Special Ability?
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Participants: Darrin Kelley, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/5/2003 Darrin Kelley: Special Ability question related to the Transformers.
In the original Transformers series, there was an ability demonstrated originally by the Constructicons. The ability to combine into Devistator. How would one simulate as a Special Ability in CAH?
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Participants: Darrin Kelley, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/4/2003 Evan Waters: PDF Schedule
I know I have a vested interest in this (I won a contest so I get all the electronic material for the line free), so forgive my selfishness, but has…
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Participants: Evan Waters, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/4/2003 The Spoken Name: Need Team Z members!
Ok, what is Team Z? Well, it's a demo team for people who are willing to run CAH events in local FLGS and especially at cons. We want poeple to…
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Participants: The Spoken Name.

4/3/2003 Michael Hopcroft: On to my second copy
Well, I had to do it. I couldn't find my copy anywhere, so i ordered a second copy of the Dead Tree Edition from Z-Man games, paying full price. The…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, The Spoken Name, Eddy Fate, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Bull, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, Jason L Blair.

4/2/2003 Grex: CAH dead tree edition spotted in Copenhagen!
Hi Cynthia, I just thought I'd inform you that CAH has made it to Copenhagen, Denmark -- this afternoon I walked into my FLGS and spotted it on the 'new…
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Participants: Grex, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/1/2003 Eddy Fate: Online Ordering!
I'm sure Cindi will put up a full announcement (since I'm not an administrator, I can't), but online ordering is active! Here's the direct link to buy it online: http://www.shadowfist.com/html/store_CAH.htm
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Participants: Eddy Fate, Shadeling, Valamir, The Spoken Name.

4/1/2003 Michael Hopcroft: CAH for Slayers?
I'll know more when I have access to the book again (it's a long story, involviong moving, an overzealous housecleaning and a massive collapse of an entire book collection stacked…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Spooky Fanboy, Eddy Fate, Wulf, Slant, Derek Devlin.

3/28/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH in my hands!
I've waited almost 17 years for today. You see, today marks the day when I first held a full-fledged, honest to gosh published RPG that I designed (or helped design)…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair, gunsel.

3/27/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH Online Release Party
On Monday, March 31, we are having an online party to celebrate the release of the Cartoon Action Hour hardcopy. The chat-party will begin at 8:00pm Eastern/7:00pm Central and will…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate, Michael Hopcroft.

3/26/2003 Norbert: Would CAH work for the Funky Cops?
I am watching Funky Cops, a new cartoon series originally made (I think) in France, and currently airing Wednesday nights on MTV Germany. It is a cartoon spoof of 70s…
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Participants: Norbert, Eddy Fate, The Spoken Name, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

3/23/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH Release News!
Here's the good word from Zev himself! "The shipment came into the warehouse on Wed and has started shipping to distributors. So figure next Wed all domestic distribs will have…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair, Michael Hopcroft, gunsel, The Spoken Name, Norbert.

3/8/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: New CAH site!
Z-Man Games proudly announces the brand new official CAH website. It's still in its infancy, so please let us know what you'd like to see. As always, your opinions matter…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Norbert, Eddy Fate, Territan.

3/1/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Delay in CAH release
We have had some vexing problems at the printers with the CAH book. We're working those out now, but this does mean a slight delay in the release date. Rest…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Blood Froth, Shadeling, Eddy Fate, Doc_Chronos.

2/27/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Spectrum at GTS?
Will anyone at Spectrum be going to the GAMA Trade Show next month? I'm curoious to meet one or two of you and waiting 'til Origins or GenCon sounds a…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Eddy Fate, Cynthia Celeste Miller, The Spoken Name.

2/7/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Droids & Ewoks
Does anyone remember a pair of cartoons aired together that Lucasfilms licensed from the original Star Wars trilogy? Evdiently they pulled the licence, because they haven't been seen in years.…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Eddy Fate, Slant, Madcat, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

1/29/2003 urbwar: so how close are we to the Dead Tree version of CAH?
With February only a few days away, I figured I'd ask when this beauty of a book is due out. I'm getting anxious to hold it in my hands, so…
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Participants: urbwar, Eddy Fate, Wulf, Michael Hopcroft.

1/26/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Pen & Paper Fan Awards
Pen and Paper (a really nifty gaming website) is conducting a fan award thing and I'm here to call to everyone to lend their vote (hopefully for CAH). So what…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

1/25/2003 Derek Devlin: How do you like your Villains?
Cartoons tend to follow certain patterns when it comes to the Villains that the Heroes face week after week. 1. The Single Recurring Villain This bad guy continually plots and…
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Participants: Derek Devlin, Clinically Insane, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Evan Waters, Slant.

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4/6/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Weekly CAH Chat and setting up new chat channels
I have two questions. 1. Are we having a weekly CAH chat this week and where? 2. How does one go about contacting the chat server you used for the…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Bull, Goose.

4/7/2003 Bull: IRC Primer
I'm not sure yet what night Cindi wants to do the weekly chats, but generally speaking, the CAH IRC channel is open 24/7. So if anyone's hanging out online, feel…
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Participants: Bull, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate, Adam.

4/7/2003 Slant: Hi Cynthia and all cartoon lovers :o)
I just picked up a copy of CAH after eagerly looking forward to the release for some months now. I love this game! You obviously have a great deal of…
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Participants: Slant, Norbert.

4/8/2003 Norbert: Warriors of the Cosmos Game: Running and Looking for Players
Hello Warriors of the Cosmos fans, here is an on-going play-by-post e-mail game based directly on this series from CAH. It's been going for a few months, but we could…
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Participants: Norbert.

4/8/2003 Slant: Anybody remember THIS?
With all the talk of GI Joe as a possible CAH campaign, I feel compelled to mention another property that was never actually a cartoon, yet was a definite part…
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Participants: Slant, Norbert, Darrin Kelley.

4/9/2003 Goose: Powerpuff Girls?
Well, I have a friend and he wants to try a powerpuff girl style game. Uhhh, I guess. Any ideas?
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Participants: Goose, Eddy Fate, Michael Hopcroft, Wulf, gunsel, Slant.

4/9/2003 Goose: ATM Coupons
I have the HQ coupon and have the Playset, but can not find coupon 2 in it. Did I just miss something?
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Participants: Goose, Eddy Fate, Michael Hopcroft.

4/10/2003 Wulf: Getting anxious...
OK, at best, I MIGHT get CAH hardcopy on Saturday. It might be the Saturday after that... I won't buy on-line, Tom (owner of my FLGS) would nag at me…
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Participants: Wulf, Valamir, Eddy Fate, Goose.

4/12/2003 Slant: CAH series idea
Okay, having mulled it over for a few days I finally know what sort of series I want to put together. I am going to combine two 80's genres: fantasy…
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Participants: Slant, Wulf, Goose, Evan Waters, Eddy Fate, Shadeling.

4/15/2003 Eddy Fate: FAQ? Errata?
I'm in the process of compiling the errata for the dead tree version of CAH. If you think you've spotted some errata that needs to be corrected for clarity, or…
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Participants: Eddy Fate, Derek Devlin.

4/16/2003 Slant: I can't remember the name of this cartoon!
This was probably a 90's toon rather than an 80's one, but it was one of the cooler cartoons that I remember. It was set in a cyberpunk-style world and…
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Participants: Slant, Jason L Blair, Garbanzo, Iceberg256, Joe Cohen.

4/17/2003 Eddy Fate: Anyone running Cartoon Action Hour?
Just like the topic says - is anyone running a series of Cartoon Action Hour? What is their play experience like? How does the game play? What's the series about?
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Participants: Eddy Fate, gunsel, Norbert, Lostfactor, Cynthia Celeste Miller, The Spoken Name.

4/18/2003 The Spoken Name: Anyone available to run a CAH demo at Kublacon?
I will be at Kublacon on Memorial Weekend, in San Fran CA. Anyone going that might have time to run at least one demo using the Action Pack #1? Or…
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Participants: The Spoken Name.

4/20/2003 Norbert: Cartoon Action Hour Mailing List available in German!
A quick announcement: As of today, I am also running my own mailing-list for CAH discussions for German-speaking fans. This is not a list with translations of posts made to…
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Participants: Norbert, Michael Hopcroft, Eddy Fate.

4/23/2003 urbwar: At last, it is mine!
Got my copy of CAH today. I am very pleased to hold it in my hands. Now to sit down and read this beauty of a book....
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Participants: urbwar, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/23/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH Goings-On
There is a lot of great stuff going on in the wacky world of Cartoon Action Hour these days! We've all been working hard to keep the momentum of the…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/24/2003 Norbert: Damage house rule... What do [i]you[/i] think?
Hello, today I came up with the following short house rule for CAH. I think it enhances the games that I would like to run, and I am seriously planning…
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Participants: Norbert.

4/24/2003 Slant: New format idea for playing CAH
Hi all- My group has come up with quite a few ideas for series and a good four or five of them really rock (Did I just say "really rock?"…
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Participants: Slant, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Norbert.

4/26/2003 urbwar: Initial Opinions about CAH
[quote="Cynthia Celeste Miller"]Thanks, Urbwar! I hope you enjoy the read. Let us know your opinions.[/quote] Having read through Channel 5 now, I figured I would post some opinions about CAH.…
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Participants: urbwar, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/29/2003 urbwar: Special Abilities question
Got a question about SA's. I'm working on a series seed where the characters would be ghostbuster types, but are chinese (it will make sense when I get the backstory…
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Participants: urbwar, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Norbert, Knarf.

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