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The NSA has a children's outreach site, based around a group of cartoon characters called the CryptoKids.

This is just begging for a Cartoon Action Hour one-shot. A really terrible one.

As I was jotting down ideas for my D&D game, another D&D game popped up locally. Since my extended social group now has four D&D games running, I decided to hold off on developing that idea any further. Poking around with Cartoon Action Hour with cresida, though, has given me the idea of converting Darkgate into a CAH series. Then I went a step further, and tweaked the CAH rules a bit so that it actually plays more like a japanese FRPG video game (including a system that I'm thoroughly amused by: changing experience into gold pieces and allowing players to buy their stat increases at stores). I'm toying with some other ideas to make the whole thing a little more Gamist. Again, I've been jotting down ideas in my notebook, and maybe tomorrow I'll sit down and flesh out the notes. I might run it as a mini-series come January, but if worse comes to worse I'll just flesh it out, polish it up, and send it over to cynthiacm to use in a CAH release somewhere.

Ah, the joys of owning the game you're tinkering with. :)

I COMPLETELY forgot about this forum for Cartoon Action Hour, and I found some awesome stuff on there, including this:

Iron Chef, The Animated Series

SlackCon 3 was yesterday. Unlike previous SlackCons, it wasn't very organized, because a few people were at GenCon and a couple of people unfortunately had plans for part of the day. However, we still have a nice six-person SlackCon, watching Varsity Blues and Layer Cake, playing a game of Ninja Burger (card game, not RPG), enjoying a nice dinner of stuffed peppers, spinach salad, cupcakes, and two kinds of pie (apple and pumpkin), playing of video games, and general chatting and relaxing. cresida got her copy of Cartoon Action Hour, so I admit that I goobed with her about it for quite some time, and I think next SlackCon I might run a game of CAH just for fun. However, another RPG project has resurrected itself in my mind, so I might take a poke at that. It's not a project I can make money on, but it is a design I've been poking at in some form or fashion for about twenty years.

The Spectrum Games email lists are now up and active. If you want to keep abreast of the latest RPG and game projects I'm working on, go ahead and sign up for our news list. If you want to keep tabs on a specific game line, sign up for the Cartoon Action Hour list or the Midway City list.

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In the entry on Spring-Heeled Jack in Popular Culture, there's a reference at the very bottom of the section to Omlevex! Upon further examination, there's also a separate Omlevex entry, as well as one for Cartoon Action Hour and Spectrum Games! How cool is that?

Those few of you interested in Cartoon Action Hour might want to check out the latest post in spectrumgames.