The Freedom City sourcebook for Mutants & Masterminds developed out of another manuscript, a sourcebook planned as a "companion" book to Gold Rush Games' San Angelo: City of Heroes, called New Century City: City of Tomorrow. However, due to various production problems, including the sale of the San Angelo setting to Cybergames (then-owner of Hero Games and Champions) that project was shelved. A few years later, I used the manuscript to form the basis for Freedom City.
As it happens, I still have some of the Hero System stats written up for various characters in the book. Not for all of them; some charaters weren't statted when the word came down that made it clear New Century City wouldn't be published as a Hero System sourcebook, other characters weren't even created until after the manuscript was revised for Mutants & Masterminds. However, there are still complete stats for a fair number of characters, including the members of the Freedom League and the Atom Family, several villains and various and sundy NPCs.
Since letting the material collect dust on my hard drive doesn't do anyone any good, and since an official, published Hero System version of Freedom City is pretty unlikely, I figured I would post the stats that I had here for any Hero fans interested in them. As a gamer, I've always borrowed stuff from various superhero RPGs for whatever game I happened to be running at the time, so I figure some Champions players might take a look a Freedom City with an eye toward converting some of the characters and concepts there (and I certainly encourage them to do so). Some Mutants & Masterminds players might also be interested in seeing where some of the characters in the book originally come from.
Please note: these character stats are "raw" in that they haven't been edited for content or accuracy. There may be slight errors, omissions, etc. They may not jibe 100% with the published characters in Freedom City; they were written about three years ago, and some characters changed during development over that time. Also, this means that the stats are for the 4th Edition of the Hero System. They're 99% compatible with the 5th Edition, but there may be some slight changes or modifications required to bring them into line with the 5th Edition rules. They're pretty much fresh from the old manuscript stored on my computer's hard drive.
Since they're being provided for free, you get what you pay for in terms of product support, I'm afraid. I don't really have the time to update the characters in the file (although readers should feel free to do so). Please, no questions about why this character's Hero System stats differ from his or her M&M stats in thus and such a way, how characters should be converted between the two systems, or whether or not I'm going to do Hero System conversion of the other characters in the book (I'm not planning on it, although again fans are welcome to do such conversions themselves).
With all that said, right-click on the link below (or click and hold on a Mac) and choose "Save As" to download an RTF file containing the Hero System stats for about 40 of the characters from the Freedom City sourcebook. If you don't have Freedom City and want to know more about it, or the backgrounds of the various characters in the file (which are not included), drop by the Green Ronin website or your favorite local game store to check it out.
The Hero System and Champions are copyright Hero Games. Mutants & Masterminds and Freedom City are copyright Green Ronin Publishing. No infringement of either is intended.