Mutants & Masterminds 3e: Emerald Paragons

Emerald City is a thriving Pacific Northwest metropolis, a port city known as a home to hardy pioneers for well over a century and a half. Centered on the sheltered inner peninsula jutting into the Albian River, with access to Malory Bay and the islands, built upon three main hills, modest in size compared to the mountainous terrain in the surrounding area, but still fairly steep. The city has since spread across the inlet to the western or outer peninsula and along the south of the riverbank eastward, as well as pushing south towards the mountains.

But here's the kicker...

This world knows no super-heroes... yet. Something will happen during the opening of the campaign that will activate your latent powers... and those of others. How will you use your newfound abilities? Will you take up the mantle of justice and fight for the downtrodden and oppressed? Will you use your abilities for self-gain? Or will you just seek to become famous?

This will be a journey of self-discovery, with a heavy focus on role-playing (don't worry, there will be plenty of super-heroic action as well). I do not intend to push the characters towards any particular path. You want to run amok and be villains? Fine, but you deal with the consequences. And yes, this may lead to some PvP as the more heroic-minded characters fight against the lawless ones. The idea is the real world suddenly gaining people who can do amazing things, and how they would react to such.