I finally get around to describing the events of Session 2 of the first adventure from my Paragons of Freedom Game. Looking forward to getting to the next event shortly.

The Prologue: I started the game with a quick overview of Freedom City and how this world was different from our own. Specifically there was the bloodier American Revolution that culminated in the British surrender at Freedom City and detonation of the first nuclear bomb in Germany rather than Japan. After that I let the player's each describe an only slightly guided prologue for their character.

I have been talking about this game for a while. Getting it off the ground was a little bit of a hassle with real life issues getting in the way. In the end though, I was able to get three players together only two months later than the original start date. Here is how it went down.

I feel it is important when running a game to run a game that you'd want to play in. With that in mind, for my upcoming Paragons of Freedom game I took a moment to write up my own alter ego for the game. He will likely never show up in the game but that's sort of his powers.

For his background, I started with myself but then I stripped out computers and gaming from my interests and looked for common threads. It reminded me of a time when I compared my Stage Crew and Church work to being a Ninja.

"If I'm doing my job right, no one notices I did it."

Hello Gamers and Geeky Friends,

I tend to wear my geek on my sleeve and spend a lot of time talking about RPGs. The sad fact however is that I haven't played in a game since April and rather than whining about it, I thought I would instead do something about it. With that in mind, I'd like to invite people over to my house to play a game of Mutants & Masterminds. They say do what you love right?

The game would be a 'Paragons of Freedom' style game meaning that it would be set in the fictional world of Freedom City but the style would be heavily influenced by television superheros in the vein of Smallville or Heroes.

I am hoping to start in September (August is a very busy month) meeting once every other month or so on the weekend for 4 to 5 hours. The kitchen table at our house in Bethesda opens up and should be able to support a number of players. I'm pretty relaxed at the table and think I tell a pretty good story that is heavily shaped by the player's desires and the character's actions.

One thing some friends did back in college was play a game called 'Crusaders' that I was always sad I never got to be a part of. The basic concept was that you played yourself, only with superpowers. I think that would be fun but only if everyone else was comfortable with it. At the very least, it should make things easier for anyone who is interested in playing but hasn't done this sort of thing before.

Please let me know if you're interested, I'd love to have you join.
-Bill