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5/2/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Technocon's cartoon presence
Just a reminder to all of you that our own babyCindi, Cynthia Celeste Miller, has agreed to be a guest at Technocon, the online convention I am running in August,…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

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.

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.

4/24/2003 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.

4/24/2003 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.

4/23/2003 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.

4/23/2003 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.

4/20/2003 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.

4/18/2003 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.

4/17/2003 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.

4/16/2003 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.

4/15/2003 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.

4/12/2003 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.

4/10/2003 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.

4/9/2003 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.

4/9/2003 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.

4/8/2003 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.

4/8/2003 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.

4/7/2003 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.

4/7/2003 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.

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5/3/2003 Norbert: Transbots peculiarities
Hello, As you probably all know, the series seed The Transbots was chiefly based on the Transformers cartoon (with maybe also a nod to their one-time competitor show, Challenge of…
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Participants: Norbert, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

5/3/2003 Norbert: Transbots origins
Well, let me say that whatever it was, it still came out as a pretty good concept. Sometimes those first loose ideas seem to work best. I absolutely like the…
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Participants: Norbert, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

5/3/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: POLL: Filecards in Darkness Unleashed
Currently, we're kind of up in the air about which way to go with filecards in the upcoming Darkness Unleashed book, so we thought it would be a good idea…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair, gunsel.

5/4/2003 Artos: New Setting for a game
Hi everyone. I recently created a character based on this idea for a new game and I wanted to know what everyone thinks. Basically, the battles between Heaven and Hell…
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Participants: Artos, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

5/4/2003 Artos: Psychic Powers
This is a related post to the New Setting for a Game Post I just made. My fiance wants to give Faith abilities related to empathy and telepathy. Basically she…
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Participants: Artos, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

5/4/2003 SteveD: question about dead tree edition
Will copies be sent out to contributors? If so, when? - I am curious D
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Participants: SteveD, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

5/10/2003 Lostfactor: Matrix Action Hour?
First of all, if you haven't read this article, you might want to go do that and then come back. It's not a long read - took me less…
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Participants: Lostfactor, Norbert, Eddy Fate.

5/15/2003 Goose: Galaxy Rangers
Here is a link someone posted on the Savage Worlds Forum. Thought fans might like it. Also has some great info for running games. http://www.betamountain.org/index.htm
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Participants: Goose.

5/16/2003 Evan Waters: Another format idea- ensemble play
Here's another weird play-variant thing. It occurs to me that some of the more popular cartoons- notably TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE- had or rapidly acquired casts of characters that were…
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Participants: Evan Waters, Bull, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

5/20/2003 Derek Devlin: Intangibility in CAH
I was kicking around an idea for Skull Gulch involving some "ghost" bandits when I tried hashing out an intangibility SA. I can't seem to get one I'm happy with.…
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Participants: Derek Devlin, Norbert, Eddy Fate.

6/14/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Anyone interested in doing a conversion?
I wonder if anyone would be interested in doing a system conversion sheet between HeartQuest and Cartoon Action Hour? If anyone is willing to do it, I can post it…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Norbert.

6/22/2003 Norbert: CAH has made it to real stores in Germany
I am happy to announce that yesterday, on June 21st (*happy Beltane, Summer Solstice, by the way!*), I got my envelope with a copy of the CAH rulebook in the…
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Participants: Norbert, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

6/29/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Compilation of Ready-to-Run Series
Is this something you'd be interested in? If so, how many series would you want in the book?
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Norbert.

7/3/2003 Eddy Fate: Website Updated
The website has been updated with the latest Errata, and a sneak peek at the Metal Wars cover! Check it out! http://www.zmangames.com/CAH
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Participants: Eddy Fate.

7/7/2003 Norbert: Cartoon Action Zone and more games?
Hi Cynthia, I would like to know (though this means looking ahead to the future quite a bit still): As soon as Spectrum Game Studios is releasing Cartoon Action Zone,…
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Participants: Norbert, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

7/10/2003 Eddy Fate: Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Z-Man Games (Mahopac, New York) Spectrum Game Studios (Pittsburgh, Kansas) July 10, 2003 After These Messages #1 Available Now, and More News After a severe production delay,…
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Participants: Eddy Fate.

7/14/2003 Ocelot: This game looks really cool....questions
Hey everybody. I just found out about this game today and I have read quite a bit about it. It seems like it would be perfect for my group. Just…
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Participants: Ocelot, Eddy Fate, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

7/15/2003 urbwar: Getting my nephew into roleplaying via CAH!
So my nephew has wanted to learn how to roleplay for a few years now. I chose to wait until he turned 13, since that was the age I first…
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Participants: urbwar, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate, Valamir.

7/17/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Interesting Thread
You guys might find this interesting. A fellow on RPG.net is wanting to know the different things gamers are using CAH for.
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

7/18/2003 urbwar: Trait Specialties Question
I see it says you can get specialites free during character creation. Does it matter if you take the level 1 or level 2 specialty? Also, what if you wanted…
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Participants: urbwar, Eddy Fate, Norbert.

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