City of Angels Rewrite?

[Olefin]

A question to the board - has anyone ever attempted to rewrite City of Angels to correct some of the bigger issues with it (like the Mexican Army not matching canon as to its equipment and its units)?

From what I understand its officially considered non-canon by the people who currently own the Twilight 2000 game. (Saw it referred to as Apocrypha if I remember correctly)

Just wondering as it seems a great project for the board or some of the board members to do. And while it might be a big project it would be nice to have a "new" module to play.

[James Langham]

I don't have time for a full rewrite but if enough are interested I am willing to help (bearing in mind I'm not a US specialist).

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by James Langham

I don't have time for a full rewrite but if enough are interested I am willing to help (bearing in mind I'm not a US specialist).

If there's interest I'd also be willing to help out, but with the same caveat as James, i.e that the US is not my area of expertise.

[Olefin]

It does seem there is interest then.

So a question then - besides the obvious problem with the Mexican units lets throw around some other ideas on what is wrong with the module - and I do agree on it being very comic book like in how it was written.

Do we need a sub-forum to do this or could we do the rewrite for those interested within this current forum?

As the material I think is still copyrighted it would be of course a fan canon rewrite.

A question - has anyone ever approached the company that still owns the Twilight 2000 material to see if they would be interested in new material written by fans or rewritten to make it canon in this case?

[James Langham]

I actually wrote to Far Futures regarding the possibility of writing extra source books but got no reply. :-(

Originally Posted by Olefin

It does seem there is interest then.

So a question then - besides the obvious problem with the Mexican units lets throw around some other ideas on what is wrong with the module - and I do agree on it being very comic book like in how it was written.

Do we need a sub-forum to do this or could we do the rewrite for those interested within this current forum?

As the material I think is still copyrighted it would be of course a fan canon rewrite.

A question - has anyone ever approached the company that still owns the Twilight 2000 material to see if they would be interested in new material written by fans or rewritten to make it canon in this case?

[Rainbow Six]

Just a thought...

Rather than rewriting something that already exists (and potentially getting involved in copyright and other issues) what about creating our own module from scratch? Freely available in the public domain after completed. That way we're not stepping on the original writer's toes so to speak...

Just a thought...

[boogiedowndonovan]

Originally Posted by Olefin

A question to the board - has anyone ever attempted to rewrite City of Angels to correct some of the bigger issues with it (like the Mexican Army not matching canon as to its equipment and its units)?

From what I understand its officially considered non-canon by the people who currently own the Twilight 2000 game. (Saw it referred to as Apocrypha if I remember correctly)

Just wondering as it seems a great project for the board or some of the board members to do. And while it might be a big project it would be nice to have a "new" module to play.

Yes, well not necessarily re-writing it but a more accurate portrayal of Los Angeles to be exact.

City of Angels is not one of my favorites. I thought it was very comic bookish in general. I lived in Los Angeles for 10 years, as did Jess (whom hasn't posted here in awhile)

Yes it would be a big project.

BTW the author of City of Angels also wrote the Eastern Europe Sourcebook which probably explains why the Greek and Turk armies are equipped with Soviet tanks.