[Webstral]

I won't speak to City of Angels, since I know less about L.A. than many here. Being a Bay Area type now, I'm much more interested in what is happening here in 2000. I just don't know how much adventuring potential there is. The Oakland-Sacramento axis seems as firmly in the grip of Milgov as anyplace in the country is. The region possesses as much of what is required to survive and rebuild as anyplace in the US if one goes a bit further afield to include minerals from the Sierra Nevada and petroleum from Bakersfield and the Central Valley under Milgov control.

Offhand, the best adventure ideas I can come up with are the location of materials to support reconstruction. For instance, the hydroelectric plants along the rim of the Sierra Nevada would change the water situation and the power situation completely. Equipment and expertise would be worth their weight in something even more valuable than gold. I suppose strategic minerals for things like machine tools also would be extremely valuable. There would be marauders to be tracked down and local warlords to be overcome, but these things are not especially inspiring.

I suppose one could go a very different route than normal. Inside the Sixth US Army AO would be a number of players jockeying for control of what would be a local superpower once the recovery got underway. PCs might find themselves called upon to take sides or perform special missions. I'll have to think on this.