Freedom City

Template:For multi {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox game with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| actor | ages | AKA | alt | blank_data | blank_label | caption | date | designer | director | footnotes | genre | illustrator | image | image_alt | image_caption | image_link | image_size | isbn | isbn_note | italic title | label_width | language | logo | logo_alt | logo_caption | logo_link | logo_size | manufacturer | materials | media_type | movement | name | other_names | parent_game | players | playing_time | publisher | random_chance | related |series | setup_time | skills | subject_name | subtitle | system | title | voice_over | web | website | width | writer | years }} 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.<ref name="designers">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp Chris Pramas of 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.<ref name="designers"/>Template:Rp 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).<ref name="designers"/>Template:Rp Starting in 2008, a series of Freedom City Atlases made an expansion to the Freedom City setting.<ref name="designers"/>Template:Rp 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.<ref name="designers"/>Template:Rp Lastly, a third edition Freedom City book was published in October 2017, which advances the timeline and introduces new characters while retiring others.Template:Citation needed

Reception

Freedom City won the 2003 Silver Ennie Award for "Best Art, Interior", "Best Graphic Design and Layout", and "Best Campaign Setting".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Freedom City won the 2006 Gold Ennie Award for "Best Campaign Setting/Setting Supplement".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>