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| Designers | Stephen Kenson |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Green Ronin Publishing |
| Publication | 2005 |
| Genres | Superhero fiction |
| Systems | d20 System |
Freedom City is a fictional, city-based campaign setting for the roleplaying game Mutants & Masterminds . It was designed by Steve Kenson.
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. [1] : 337 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. [1] : 371–372 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). [1] : 375 Starting in 2008, a series of Freedom City Atlases made an expansion to the Freedom City setting. [1] : 375 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. [1] : 376 Lastly, a third edition Freedom City book was published in October 2017, which advances the timeline and introduces new characters while retiring others.[ citation needed ]
Freedom City won the 2003 Silver Ennie Award for "Best Art, Interior", "Best Graphic Design and Layout", and "Best Campaign Setting". [2]
Freedom City won the 2006 Gold Ennie Award for "Best Campaign Setting/Setting Supplement". [3]
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