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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.

5/10/2003 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.

5/4/2003 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.

5/4/2003 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 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.

5/3/2003 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.

5/3/2003 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 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.

5/2/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: New Review
There's a review of the CAH dead tree edition at RPG.net. Feel free to post a comment at the bottom of the review page.
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

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.

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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.

7/20/2003 Norbert: The Hunt for Galdrek... how was it?
Hello, has anybody here (beside me) used the sample episode from the first Action Pack, "The Hunt For Galdrek"? If so, which player-characters did you use, which villains, and what…
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Participants: Norbert.

7/20/2003 Norbert: The Encyclopedia of Cartoon Superstars
I am currently looking for a bunch of scholarly books on the history of animation and animators, especially for a tome called, "THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARTOON SUPERSTARS" by John Cawley…
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Participants: Norbert.

7/20/2003 Norbert: Basis for Hurt Points
Boring question maybe, but I still wanted to ask: Last week, I was beginning to wonder what your basis in the design of the game was for making the Hurt…
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Participants: Norbert.

7/21/2003 Norbert: Tommy K and the Star Kitties... NOW TOURING! ;-)
Hi folks, two pages of really quick, inofficial character stats for the band, Tommy K and the Star Kitties, are now up in the Files section of the Spectrum Game…
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Participants: Norbert.

7/21/2003 urbwar: Calling all Villains...
So as I am working on Blaze of Glory, I am finding myself a little stuck on creating villains. For the pilot episode, I am using an agent for the…
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Participants: urbwar, Lxndr, Derek Devlin.

7/25/2003 Derek Devlin: The Midnight Society needs your help!
The Midnight Society is a collection of pulp fiction enthusiasts who got together to write stories and draw pictures concerning our own cast of characters, twelve in all. We had…
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Participants: Derek Devlin.

7/27/2003 Ocelot: Combat Rules Clarification
I just bought this game (Cartoon Action Hour) in paperback edition last week and I have been reading it a little at a time. So far, it seems really cool.…
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Participants: Ocelot.

7/30/2003 urbwar: So I ran CAH for my nephew today
After alot of waiting, my nephew and I sat down, finished his character, and played the Pilot episode for "Blaze of Glory". It took about 30 minutes to run, as…
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Participants: urbwar.

8/1/2003 Derek Devlin: Series needs a gimmick
I'm a big fan of swashbuckling. Fairbanks, Flynn, Guybrush Threepwood. And after I found Richard Lester's Musketeer movies on DVD, I was sure I wanted to run a swashbuckling campaign.…
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Participants: Derek Devlin, Lxndr, Eddy Fate.

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