Freedom City is a fictional, city-based
campaign setting for the
roleplaying game ''
Mutants & Masterminds''. It was designed by
Steve Kenson.
Publication history
Steve Kenson was working on ''
Silver Age Sentinels'' and pitched Freedom City as a setting for the game, but the game's publishers,
Guardians of Order, turned it down.
Chris Pramas
Chris Pramas is an American game designer and writer, as well as a founder of Green Ronin Publishing. He is best known as the designer of the ''Dragon Age'' RPG, ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' (second edition), and ''Freeport: The City of Adventu ...
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Green Ronin Publishing asked Kenson to design a superhero role-playing game using the
D20 System, so Kenson developed ''
Mutants & Masterminds'' in 2002 in part to get his ''Freedom City'' setting published, which ultimately happened in 2003.
Green Ronin published a trio of books to develop Freedom City through three different
eras of comic books, ''Golden Age'' (2006), ''Iron Age'' (2007) and ''Silver Age'' (2010).
Starting in 2008, a series of ''Freedom City Atlases'' made an expansion to the Freedom City setting.
A new third edition of ''Mutants & Masterminds Hero's Handbook'' (2011) established a new setting in the game universe, Emerald City, which debuted in a series of PDF ''Threat Reports'' (2011), while a full setting book was planned for release at
GenCon 44.
Lastly, a third edition ''Freedom City'' book was published in October 2017 which advances the timeline and introduces new characters while retiring others.
Reception
''Freedom City'' won the 2003 Silver
Ennie Award for "Best Art, Interior", "Best Graphic Design and Layout", and "Best Campaign Setting".
''Freedom City'' won the 2006 Gold
Ennie Award for "Best Campaign Setting/Setting Supplement".
References
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Campaign settings
ENnies winners
Fictional populated places in the United States
Superhero role-playing games