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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.

7/21/2003 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.

7/21/2003 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.

7/20/2003 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.

7/20/2003 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: 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.

7/18/2003 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.

7/17/2003 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.

7/15/2003 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.

7/14/2003 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.

7/10/2003 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.

7/7/2003 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.

7/3/2003 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.

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.

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.

6/14/2003 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.

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.

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.

5/15/2003 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.

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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.

8/3/2003 Marc Hameleers: Company link leads to bestiality???
When i tried the link below the link to this forum, wich should lead to the company, i got a rather nasty suprise... Now i like sex as much as…
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Participants: Marc Hameleers, greyorm.

8/4/2003 xgothgrrl: Starblazers in CAH or A Series with a dealine
Just wondering if anyone had any advise on converting the Starblazers Cartoon into a CAH game...the most important aspect and prob the most difficult aspect would the aforementioned deadline. For…
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Participants: xgothgrrl, Norbert, Derek Devlin.

8/6/2003 lonewolf23: Sonic the Hedghog
Hi, I'm new here, just got the lowdown on CAH, and I can't help but wonder if CAH would be perfect for a Sonic the Hedgehog RPG, based on a…
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Participants: lonewolf23, Derek Devlin.

8/15/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: I'm back...and I bring a bit of news!
I was going to wait to send this tomorrow/this morning, but I woke up at about 2:00 am and figured I'd fire it off before I head back to bed.…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

8/24/2003 xgothgrrl: CAH Challege: Iron Chef
During the season finale of the 2003 season, a giant meteorite streaks down from the heavens and strikes Kitchen Stadium! It's strange radioactive properties endow each of the Iron Chefs…
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Participants: xgothgrrl, Eddy Fate.

8/25/2003 Eddy Fate: HELP run CAH at Gamefest Richmond!
Can someone attending Gamefest Richmond (Virginia) on Sept 19-21th run some CAH events? Zev will spring for the badge for them and give you $30 spending money for the weekend.…
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Participants: Eddy Fate.

8/29/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Z-Man Games To Publish M&M Superlink Product
OMLEVEX IS SET TO BE PUBLISHED BY Z-MAN GAMES Spectrum Game Studios and Z-Man Games are working together to produce Omlevex, a Silver Age setting book for the Mutants &…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

9/14/2003 Michael Hopcroft: TV Teen titans Writeups
I ned some help writing up the TV version of the Teen Titans. I'm going to be using them as PCs in a game I'm running at genCon SoCal if…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Norbert, urbwar.

10/6/2003 Norbert: Anyone care for a demo game at the Essen Fair 25th Oct.?
"Essen Spielt 2003", the big annual games trade fair and comic con in Essen, Germany, goes from October 23rd through 26th this year. I promised Zev from Z-Man Games to…
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Participants: Norbert.

10/9/2003 The Spoken Name: Darkness Unleashed has shipped!
Finally! We just shipped it yesterday to distributors so it should hit most stores within 10 days. Let us know what you think of it. Now on to Metal Wars.
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Participants: The Spoken Name.

10/17/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: We're Moving!
We're moving! Q: What? A: Spectrum Games now has a new website. It's small, but feel free to check it out at http://www.spectrum-games.com. Q: Where's the Cartoon Action Hour site…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

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