Psionics

Psionics is a type of alleged psychic ability that includes telepathy, psychokinesis, pyrokinesis, and others. The term comes from psi ('psyche') and the -onics from electronics (machine).Parapsychology is a pseudoscience that began around 1889 and aims to study psionics and other supernatural claims. There is no scientific evidence that psionic abilities exist.

Psionic abilities appear frequently in science fiction and provide characters with supernatural abilities.John W. Campbell, an editor of a science fiction magazine, became excited about fringe science, and went on to define psionics as "engineering applied to the mind". His encouragement of psionics led author Murray Leinster and others to write stories such as The Psionic Mousetrap.

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Freedom City

Freedom City is a fictional, city-based campaign setting for the roleplaying game Mutants & Masterminds. It was designed by Steve Kenson.

Publication history

While working on Silver Age Sentinels, Steve Kenson pitched Freedom City as a setting for the game, but the game's publishers, Guardians of Order, turned it down.Chris Pramas of Green Ronin Publishing asked Kenson to design a new d20-based superhero RPG. Kenson developed Mutants & Masterminds in 2002. In 2003, his Freedom City setting was published. Green Ronin published a trio of books – Golden Age (2006), Iron Age (2007) and Silver Age (2010) – which developed Freedom City by examining it through three different comic book eras. In 2008, a new series of Freedom City Atlases expanded the original Freedom City setting. A new third edition of Mutants & Masterminds Hero's Handbook (2011) brought a new setting to the game universe, Emerald City, which first appeared in a series of PDF Threat Reports (2011), with a complete setting book planned for GenCon 44.