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9/3/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Potentially Big News!
Heya, gang! We've just entered negotiations with a very reputable game company for a deal that would allow them to produce the CAH hardcopy (possibly even in hardcover). So far,…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, James_Stubbs, Ron Edwards.

8/29/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Attention: Erik Battle
I saw the mock-up action figures you designed and I'm absolutely stunned at how incredible they look. Please, please contact me as soon as you can. I have a proposal…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate, Erik C. Battle.

8/27/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Allowing Others to Publish Supplements for Your Game
I was considering allowing other people/companies release supplements for CAH, since I feel the game has a strong enough fan following to make it a credible approach. So far, I've…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Michael Hopcroft, pigames.

8/25/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH Contest Winners!!!
The voting is over for the "Create-A-Series" conest and it was very close all the way around, with quite a few series going nose to nose in the final stretch.…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Evilschemer, James_Stubbs.

8/24/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Back in Action
Hiya, gang! The last month and a half or so has been the single worst period in my entire life. Everything went directly into the crapper, on every front. Fortunately,…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Bull, Jared A. Sorensen, Jason L Blair, stormwerks, Eddy Fate.

6/23/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Iconia Update
Well, Iconia is all but in the bag, not including editing and formatting. And it's going to be a bit bigger than I originally thought. In the beginning, we were…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Norbert.

6/22/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Judging for the CAH Contest
Entries for the CAH contest so far have been plentiful and, well, extremely cool. You guys have very strong imaginations! :) Anyway, I wanted to give you more details on…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Evan Waters, Eddy Fate.

6/16/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Mini-Comic in Iconia
I just completed the script for a 26-panel mini-comic that will go into the Iconia book. It will be fashioned to look like one of those mini-comics that were included…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Doc_Chronos.

6/6/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Character Artwork for Iconia and Darkness Unleashed
Quite some time ago, I was thinking of ways to make the artwork more flavorful for the characters section of the two sourcebooks. Here are my ideas; For the Dark…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Evan Waters, Eddy Fate, Erik C. Battle, James_Stubbs, Darthcestual.

6/6/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Steve D's Review
I just checked out Steve Dempsey's CAH review and figured I'd pass the URL along to you guys. I found the review to be extremely thoughtful, informative and well-done. :)
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Mark Bruno.

6/5/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH: the CD
At the request of my local game store owner, we burned CAH onto 10 CDs so he can sell them. I know CD RPGs don't typically sell very good, so…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, stormwerks.

3/5/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: An Odd Game Mechanic
As I finished up all the examples for Channel 4 in Cartoon Action Hour, my mind suddenly devised an idea for a die mechanic. Since I've already been putting thought…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, TheMouse, mallninja0088, Dav.

2/7/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Lightning Printing
Okay, I went to Lightning Printing's website to get a price quote http://www.lightningprinting.com/quotefrm.htm and I must say, I looked at the info they requested....and was confused. Being a neophyte to…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jack Spencer Jr, mahoux, Ron Edwards, Chris Passeno, GMSkarka, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/11/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: The Joys of Publicizing Your Game
Alrighty, it looks like Cartoon Action Hour is almost out of the final playtest phase.....and it's time for me to begin publicizing it. Now, since last time I posted about…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

12/31/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: The Whole Website Ordeal
Okay, I now have a website created, but it's not on my own domain yet. The designer just put it on his account until I can get my own. Now,…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, greyorm, Tim Gray, Ian O'Rourke, J B Bell, Matt, Clay.

12/31/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Editing
Once Cartoon Action Hour has had all the final revisions, I'll need to have it edited for typos, grammar and consistency. Now, I admit to being a perfectionist. So, naturally,…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jack Spencer Jr, Bailey.

12/31/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Capturing the Spirit
This topic is inspired by the "Playtesting" thread over on the Publishing forum. I'm all about capturing the mood and spirit of the game setting / genre using any means…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Blake Hutchins, John Wick, JSDiamond, Jack Spencer Jr, James V. West, hardcoremoose, Laurel, Mike Holmes, Spawn.

12/29/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Playtesting
We're pretty far into the playtesting process for Cartoon Action Hour, but I'm a total perfectionist. I want to make sure the playtesters are hitting all the right nooks and…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, hardcoremoose, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

12/28/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Greetings
Believe it or not, I hadn't come to the Forge before last night. Maybe I just never thought to look beyond Rpg.net. So, I figured I'd introduce myself and start…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Joe Murphy (Broin), James V. West, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, unodiablo, Zak Arntson, Ryan Ary, Paganini, Matt Gwinn.

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9/30/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: State of the Industry for Indie Games?
As many of you may know, we're gearing up for the Cartoon Action Hour hardcopy edition. We're going through a publisher for this, given our lack of funds. That said,…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Miller, Pramas, Paganini, Gold Rush Games.

10/7/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Cartoon Action Hour Goes Hardcopy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Eastchester, New York October 7, 2002 Z-MAN GAMES TO PUBLISH FIRST RPG Z-Man Games, Inc. announces today that it will publish its first roleplaying game, called Cartoon…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, James_Stubbs, Jared A. Sorensen, wyrdlyng, Jason L Blair, Eddy Fate, Adam.

11/2/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Cartoon Action Hour Demo Available!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pittsburg, Ks. November 2nd, 2002 CARTOON ACTION HOUR DEMO AVAILABLE Spectrum Game Studios and Z-Man Games announce the release of the free Cartoon Action Hour demo! The…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

12/11/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH Cover
We have two possible covers for the hardcopy CAH book and they are both fantastic! So fantastic, in fact, that we're having troubles choosing which one we're going to use.…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair.

12/26/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Belated Christmas Present
We here at Z-Man Games and Spectrum Game Studios wish to give you a small gift for the holidays. We've posted a few art samples on a webpage for you…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Derek Devlin, urbwar.

1/4/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: More Cartoon Action Hour pics
Two more pics from the Cartoon Action Hour book have been added to our preview site. Check them out here.
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Derek Devlin.

1/10/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Yet more Cartoon Action Hour pics
Check out this week's offerings, straight from the upcoming Cartoon Action Hour rulebook!
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Clinically Insane.

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…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

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…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Blood Froth, Shadeling, Eddy Fate, Doc_Chronos.

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…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Norbert, Eddy Fate, Territan.

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…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair, Michael Hopcroft, gunsel, The Spoken Name, Norbert.

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…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate, Michael Hopcroft.

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)…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair, gunsel.

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…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: 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.

5/3/2003 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…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair, gunsel.

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?
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, 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.
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

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.…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

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.

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