G E R

D AN ZONES

Historic District
A Heroic Supplement for
MUTANTS & MASTERMINDS

INTRODUCTION
Disaster looms, and heroes must survive danger from more than just the villains they face! Buildings topple, traffic roars
past, and security meant to protect a building just as readily serves whoever holds the key. The city is a landscape of
deadly locales, urban hazards, and colorful characters who can all turn the tide of battle for—or against—an imperiled
hero. Danger Zones transforms the backdrop of your super-powered fights into a critical location, whose features con-
tribute to the excitement.

The setting of any given adventure scene shouldn’t be an interchangeable cardboard cutout. In superhero stories,
where the action happens can be just as iconic as why or against whom. A battle in a chemical plant poses different
dangers to the heroes and strategies for the villains than a brawl in a bank lobby or a slugfest in the local high school.
But capturing the mood and bringing the dangers to life can feel daunting for a Gamemaster. Danger Zones provides
you with all the tools you need, from maps to rules to statblocks, to help bring your scenes to life!

HOW TO USE THIS PRODUCT

Danger Zones is a collection of urban locations, detailed
and mapped out with information to use them in your
Mutants & Masterminds adventures! They might be the
settings for creative fights, crime scenes to investigate, or
strongholds stealthy vigilantes must penetrate. Resource-
ful heroes may establish hideouts in unusual places or in
plain sight. Whatever your need, Danger Zones aims to
take your Mutants & Masterminds scenes out of the ge-
neric streets and into exciting set-piece action!
While the description of each Danger Zone may include
names or villains pulled from the world of Earth-Prime,
these locations and their supporting characters aren’t
necessarily native to Freedom City, Emerald City, or any
other specific location. Adapt them to your game’s setting
as you see fit.
Each Danger Zone includes the following elements:
Special Rules: This section describes how to use a Danger
Zone’s features in a fight or other encounter to help make
the scene unique. It may point to existing rules, but also
introduces new optional rules for you to incorporate.
Cast: This section details the characters who fill out a Dan-
ger Zone’s cast on an average day. While most occupants
of any Danger Zone are Bystanders (see Deluxe Hero’s
Handbook, page 268), this section details any exceptional
minions who may oppose the heroes, come to their aid,
or otherwise create conflict. Each Cast section usually in-
cludes at least one unique character with a more devel-
oped personality who can become a colorful ally or an-
tagonist for the heroes, depending on your game.
Capers: Each Danger Zone concludes with a few sug-
gested adventures that take advantage of that location’s
mood and features.

In-World Quote: This section provides some color com-

mentary from within the world of Mutants & Masterminds
that you can use as an adventure hook or spin off your
own ideas for how the logic of a superhero world influ-
ences common locations.
Overview: This section describes the Danger Zone and its
general purpose in the city, and how it fits into a superhe-
roic world and plot lines.
Security: This section describes how well a Danger Zone
is typically protected, what opposition villains (or heroes)
might face and what security measures—from cameras
and alarms to armed guards—may protect a location.
Structures: Superhero battles inflict plenty of collateral
damage, and this sidebar describes how to break or use
many of the features found in the Danger Zone. Strong
heroes can also wield some objects as impromptu weap-
ons that inflict damage beyond their wielder’s Strength
rank. Any bonus damage such a weapon of opportunity
provides is offset by an equal penalty to attack checks
with that weapon.
MAKING THE ZONE YOUR OWN
The locations detailed in Danger Zones cover many com-
mon urban fixtures—the corner coffee shop, the local high
school, businesses and offices—and are presented as blank
canvases. While a map and a few named characters are pro-
vided, you’re free to use or discard them as you wish. Each
locale needs a name and some personality to help it come
alive. Consider who works or lives there, how the location
attracts business, and what the décor looks like. Fleshing
out details can help a location stand out and can be a fun
way to bring a hero’s Complications into play. Be ready to
let players add details as well, especially by spending a Hero
Point to Edit the Scene. Pay attention to what details grab
your players’ interests and what NPCs they engage. Bring-
ing familiar elements back in the future can give your game
a sense of consistency and help players feel more engaged,
especially with characters or details they helped describe.
Every Danger Zone reflects the ordinary equivalents we
see in the real world rather than the extremes you might
see in a comic book or superhero movie. You can keep

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them as-is for your own adventures to preserve a sense
of familiarity for your players, but you’re also free to adapt
and change any location to accommodate for your world’s
unique quirks. A major bank in a world full of supervillains
may employ security staff with minor powers or equip
guards with powered armor, and the vault may be pro-
tected by advanced robots, magical wards, or psychic illu-
sions. A fast food chain in a world full of magical creatures
may have a “secret menu” full of unusual or even immoral
food choices. Look at each entry as a starting point for
your own ideas and mix in one or two unusual elements
to make it more interesting to a team of superheroes.
You can also use the entries as-written, but file off the se-
rial numbers to create dozens of new locations for your
adventures. You can use the rules and map for the city
park to represent an Earth preserve in an alien zoo or a
nature-oriented pocket dimension, or lift rules elements
and statblocks from the aquarium to flesh out the dangers
of an undersea lab, for examples.
GENERAL URBAN FEATURES
Most city sites include at least a few consistent features
superheroes might break, hurl, or otherwise interact with.
The listed Mass and Toughness ranks on the following
table give you some idea of how easily a structure can be
thrown or how readily it might be destroyed, including if
someone uses it for cover. Some objects can be wielded
as melee weapons as well, increasing a character’s dam-
age by the listed rank; these improvised weapons suffer
damage equal to what they inflict with each attack. Some
objects can be held to provide cover. Positioning such an
object requires a Move action each round to maintain,
and the cover bonus is lost if a character is Stunned.
A feature that can be “ripped free” breaks away from the
larger structure if it fails a Toughness resistance check by
the specified Degree of Failure, or by a Strength check
against its Toughness rank+10 that achieves that many
Degrees of Success.

MASS TOUGHNESS
FIXTURE NOTES
RANK RANK
Cafe furniture 0 5 Light metal and/or plastic tables and chairs.
Construction Crane 10 9 Urban tower crane with a 60-foot boom.
Heavy metal door. Pick (Technology DC 20) to open. Rip free with two
Door, Exterior 2 8
Degrees. Can provide cover.
Heavy wood or hollow metal doors. Pick (Technology DC 15) to open. Rip
Door, Interior 1 5
free with one Degree. Can provide cover.
Fire escape 6 7 Two Degrees tears it loose from the building.
Two Degrees tears it loose, releasing a geyser of water and creating a wet
Fire hydrant 4 8
environment in a 15-foot radius.
Mailbox 3 7 Free-standing street-corner mailbox.
Manhole cover 1 7 Aerodynamic enough to throw it like a discus. Can provide partial cover.
Parked car 7 8 Just taking into account the vehicle’s mass and material as an object.
Parking meter 1 8 Rip free with two Degrees. Damage +1.
Per roughly 5-foot cube in size. Two degrees of damage renders it rough
Pavement 7 7
terrain (ground movement Hindered).
Rip free with one Degree. Hack (Technology DC 20+) to view or spoof the
Security Camera –4 2
feed.
Steel beam 4 9 Rip free with two Degrees of Damage. Damage +2.
Typically 30-ft. tall aluminum or light steel poles. Rip free with one De-
Streetlamp 4 7
gree.
Statue, bronze 6 8 Average 6-foot tall humanoid statue.
Statue, stone 4 7 Average 6-foot tall humanoid statue.
Traffic sign 0 5 Typically 6-ft. in length. Rip free with one Degree. Damage +1.
Large enough to provide partial concealment, full if a character ducks
Umbrella, table 0 2
down behind it. Toughness applies to the 5-foot pole.
Utility pole 6 6 45-foot concrete or wood pole. Rip free with two Degrees.
Equivalent of a small food-vendor cart. Adjust mass rank upwards for
Vendor cart 3 6
larger ones.
Wall, Interior — 6 Cheap cinderblock walls.
Wall, Exterior — 8 Reinforced cinderblock or brick walls.

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MUTANTS & MASTERMINDS

HISTORIC DISTRICT
take note of the statue On your left. It bears
the inscription “Our Lost Hero” and depicts an
unnamed war hero, commissioned by the original
owner. We have since learned it was inspired by one
of our city’s own superheroes, who accidentally
time-traveled into the past and only revealed this
information after returning to the present.
Let that be a lesson to pay attention during
historical tours, folks. You never know when this
stuff is going to come in handy!

LANGSTON “BEACON” ALBRIGHT

RETIRED HERO

Many cities have a historic district—sometimes called

“old town,” the “old city,” “pioneer square,” the “founder’s
quarter,” etc.—an area where buildings are preserved for
their architectural and cultural historic value. Cities legally
designate such districts and place certain restrictions on
development and use, as well as guidelines on their pres-
ervation. These can lead to overlapping jurisdictions of
national, state, and city requirements that make chang-
ing or renovating historic buildings all but impossible. In
the United States, for example, the federal government
designates historic districts (through the National Parks
Service), but individual states also have their varied des-
ignations and guidelines.
Exactly how “historic” a district is depends on the age and
history of the city. Most American and Canadian historic
districts are only two to four hundred years old, for ex-
ample. First nations sites can be far older but are rarely
incorporated into modern cities. Historic districts in Asian
or European cities may be centuries or even millennia old!
In most historic districts, the goal is preservation of the
look and feel of the buildings, and often the streets and
surrounding area. Uses for these buildings are often quite
modern, since historic districts tend to draw tourists. Reg-
ulations limit the signage and displays businesses can use
and what modifications they can make to buildings. Many
historic districts also restrict franchises or “chain” busi-
nesses, focusing on local small businesses or requiring
franchises to conform to the district’s overall look and feel.
More extreme historic districts impose greater restrictions
aimed at preserving the character of the area. Some spe-
cific buildings may be designated as museums or similar
cultural sites, possibly with educational displays. There are
“underground” historic districts over which modern parts
of the city are literally built, and reenactment sites featur-
ing costumed performers intended to give visitors a feel
for what the district was like in the past. Cities commonly
limit or even ban vehicular traffic in a historic district to
encourage “old-timey” transit like trolleys or carriages.
SECURITY
Security in a historic district is primarily aimed at preser-
vation and preventing vandalism. Such security is usually
discreet so as not to intrude on the district’s charm, and
may include some hidden security cameras and moni-
toring systems. Other than private businesses and spe-
cific museums and other cultural institutions—which may
have their own private security guards—the city’s police
force usually provides security in the district.
SPECIAL RULES
Historic districts are tempting targets for themed villains
with a historic motif or small-time crooks who prey on
tourists, but they may also conceal puzzles and treasures
left undiscovered over the centuries.
AT-HOME TIME TRAVEL
Visiting a historic district can be like stepping back into
the past in a number of ways—that’s often the intention
of such a neighborhood. Some of the guidelines from
the Time Traveler’s Codex can be useful for adventures in
a historic district. A few highlights are summarized here.
Gamemasters wanting to explore them in more detail
should consult the sourcebook.
HORSE AND BUGGY
A historic district might ban modern vehicular travel but
still allow period vehicles, usually horse-drawn carriages
or human-powered rickshaws used by tour guides. These
follow the guidelines for Muscle-Powered Vehicles from
the Time Traveler’s Codex, specifically that the vehicle can
be affected by interaction checks, “remote controlled” us-
ing Persuasion or Intimidate, and can only move at top
Speed for hours equal to the Stamina of the creature(s)
drawing it. Similarly, the Ride skill presented in the Time

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STRUCTURES
The following represent typical Toughness ratings for different things in or around a historic district, along with the Tech-
nology skill DCs to overcome locks and other security devices associated with them and any notes about an object’s
statistics, uses, or utility.
MASS TOUGHNESS
FIXTURE
RANK RANK
Exterior Walls — 6
Exterior Doors — 4
Interior Walls — 5
Interior Doors — 4
Wrought Iron Fencing 3 7
Traveler’s Codex may have relevance in a district where
people regularly ride horses or other mounts.
TECH FAMILIARITY
Some of the technology or designs in the district may be
authentically antique, imposing a circumstance modifier
to the DC of Technology (and related) skill checks. Typi-
cally, this isn’t more than a +2 increase, and city building
codes minimize the amount of truly antique technology
that can exist in a historic district, given that much of it is
unsafe by modern standards.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
While heroes should be avoiding excessive damage to
the city during their exploits in general, it is particularly
important in a historic district, where precious treasures
of a city’s history may be damaged or destroyed. Game-
masters who want to track collateral damage caused by
superheroic conflicts in an area can use the following
guidelines.
Roll a collateral damage check when one of the following
events occurs:
• A player rolls a natural 1 on any roll involving active
or offensive use of a power or attack.
• A character involved in a conflict suffers three or
more Degrees of damage from a single attack.
• A character misses with a ranged attack (this is in ad-
dition to the trigger of rolling a 1 on the die).
• A character uses a Damage effect with the Area extra.
• A character is knocked back into a structure or the
ground (if using the optional Knockback rules from
the Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide).
The DC of the collateral damage check is the power level
of the character who triggered it. If the check succeeds,
there is no significant collateral damage, but the DC of fu-
ture collateral damage checks increases by +1. If the check
fails, each Degree of Failure increases the collateral dam-
age level of the area by one.
DANGER ZONES
Historic District
NOTES
Typically brick or stone.
Technology DC 18 to unlock. Rip free with one Degree.
Typically timber and/or plaster.
Technology DC 15 to unlock. Rip free with one Degree.
A 5-foot section of iron fence.
DAMAGE
RESULT
LEVEL
Minor Damage: The area suffers some minor
damage—dents, cracks, and broken win-
1
dows for the most part — but very little that
can’t be easily fixed or cleaned up.
Moderate Damage: The area is badly
2 roughed up—holes in walls, smashed win-
dows, gouges in the pavement, and so forth.
Major Damage: The area suffers significant
damage—walls broken, roads impassable,
statues toppled. About one-quarter of the
3 structures in the area collapse or are structur-
ally compromised and fires may break out.
See Collapses and Fires in Chapter 5 of the
Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide for details.
Massive Damage: The area takes a lot of
damage, comparable to being hit by a hur-
4
ricane or tornado or similar natural disaster.
Half of the structures in the area collapse.
Catastrophic Damage: The area is essen-
tially leveled, if not immediately by the ac-
cumulated collateral damage, then shortly
5
thereafter by fires, collapses, explosions, and
other secondary damage. Virtually all struc-
tures collapse. Everything is a near-total loss.
LIMITING COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Players can spend Hero Points on collateral damage checks.
If a character spends their turn focusing on containing col-
lateral damage, they eliminate any accumulated modifier
to collateral damage checks and can roll a Team check to as-
sist with any collateral damage check that occurs before the
beginning of their next turn (see Team Checks in Chapter
1 of the Deluxe Hero’s Handbook). Gamemasters should con-
sider awarding a Hero Point to characters who put effort
into limiting collateral damage.
FLASHBACK STORIES
A historic district offers opportunities for some unusual
storytelling in an adventure, including scenes that take
place earlier in history, in the period of the district’s prime.
This can be as simple as a long flashback sequence where
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the players take control of historical personalities to fill in
the backstory for a modern event, or you can cut between
flashbacks and modern scenes as the historical characters
play out what happened before and the modern charac-
ters follow their trail, investigating how the events con-
nect with the present. If one or more of the player charac-
ters is ageless, they could appear in both eras!
A historic district might also offer opportunities for a true
time-travel story where something connects the past and
present, sending characters on a trip into the past. See the
Time Traveler’s Codex for much more on creating and run-
ning time-travel adventures.
CAST
Generally, the historical district features the same sorts of
people you find anywhere in the city, along with a large
number of tourists taking in the sights and the people
helping them do so.
HANNAH GREENE
Hannah Greene always loved history and longed in some
ways for a simpler time. But the more she learned, the
more she realized that history was complex and not the
simple affair she imagined, and she wanted to share those
insights. She became a guide for local tours of the histori-
cal district, both as a “ride-along” on some horse-drawn
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carriage tours and on foot leading lantern-light “ghost
tours” in the evening. She enjoys the work, and it supple-
ments her income as she works towards her master’s de-
gree at the local university. Hannah is fairly sure she’s seen
some things on her tours that her rabbi would be better at
explaining than any of her professors.
HAROLD “HALF-TRACK” LOMBARD
Ol’“Half-Track” Lombard is one of the best contractors and
general repairmen working in the district, insisting “this
old stuff just speaks to me.” He’s been taking care of main-
tenance work in the district for as long as anybody can re-
member and shows an intuitive understanding of how by-
gone artisans built their phenomenal creations. Half-Track
loves his work, and the people in the historic district love
him. He knows everyone, and he knows the district like
the back of his hand: every structure, all its history, how it
all fits together, and how to keep it all going. Anyone with
similar respect can win Half-Track’s admiration. Those with
a destructive disregard for history get nothing but his dis-
dain and maybe a wrench upside the head, if Half-Track
thinks he can help protect the place.
GHOSTS OF THE PAST
Along with the weight of history, a historical district in an
M&M setting may be home to literal ghosts. This is par-
ticularly true for historic sites, like graveyards, or places of

HANNAH GREENE PL 2 • 28 POINTS
STR 0 STA 1 AGL 0 DEX 1 FGT 0 INT 2 AWE 1 PRE 2
Skills: Expertise: History 8 (+10), Expertise (PRE): Oratory 4
(+6), Insight 2 (+3), Perception 4 (+5), Persuasion 4 (+6)
Offense: Init +0, Unarmed +0 (Close, Damage 0)
Defense: Dodge 1, Parry 0, Fortitude 1, Toughness 1, Will 3
Totals: Abilities 14 + Powers 0 + Advantages 0 + Skills 11 (22
ranks) + Defenses 3 = 28
HAROLD “HALF-TRACK” LOMBARD PL 2 • 39 POINTS
STR 1 STA 1 AGL 0 DEX 1 FGT 2 INT 1 AWE 0 PRE 1
Powers: Senses 4 (Postcognition; Limited to Objects)
Equipment: Toolkit, Lunchbox, Reference Books
Advantages: Connected, Contacts, Improvised Tools, Skill
Mastery: Expertise (Contractor)
Skills: Athletics 2 (+3), Expertise: Contractor 9 (+10), Insight 6
(+6), Persuasion 2 (+3), Vehicles 2 (+3)
Offense: Init +0, Unarmed +2 (Close, Damage 1)
Defense: Dodge 3, Parry 3, Fortitude 2, Toughness 1, Will 2
Totals: Abilities 14 + Powers 2 + Advantages 5 + Skills 11 (21
ranks) + Defenses 7 = 39
mass death, like battlefields. A ghost can fall into one of
four main categories: haunt, victim, antagonist, or poten-
tial ally.
• Haunt: Less of a ghost and more of a hazard, a haunt
is a kind of psychic or mystic “residue” that manifests
as all sorts of creepy paranormal phenomena—most
are harmless, but some may inflict damage or condi-
tions as if they were a power. Such harm only stops
when the energy causing the haunt’s manifestation
is cleared out, possibly by resolving the event that
caused the haunt’s appearance.
• Victim: This is similar to a haunt, except the ghost is
an entity that can be communicated with using ef-
fects like Awareness or Telepathy, or special scenes
like a seance. Victim ghosts are typically trapped
unless they can resolve whatever is holding them in
place, likely requiring outside assistance.
• Antagonist: Antagonist ghosts are menacing, either
toward a specific target—usually associated with the
circumstances of their death—or all living people.
The ghost is essentially a supernatural villain for the
heroes to overcome. Knightfire, Silver Scream, and
Toy-Boy from Freedom City are all examples of an-
tagonistic ghosts.
• Ally: Some historical sites may have ghostly guard-
ians charged with protecting and preserving the site
and its legacy. These ghosts are potential allies of the
heroes, so long as their goals intersect. A ghostly ally
might be limited to offering cryptic advice and guid-
ance, or could be capable of manifesting and inter-
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Historic District
GHOST TEMPLATE • 61 POINTS
PL Adjustment: +0
Statistic Adjustments: Concealment 3 (Normal Hearing and
Vision), Flight 2 (8 MPH), Immunity 30 (Fortitude Effects),
Insubstantial 4 (Innate; Permanent)
Combat Adjustment: Insubstantial, Immune to Fortitude
effects
vening directly to help the heroes. Lantern Jack from
Freedom City is an example of a ghost ally.
Ghost characters in M&M should, in general, have no
Stamina, Immunity 30 (Fortitude Effects), and Insubstan-
tial 4 (often Permanent and Innate). Invisibility (Total Visu-
al Concealment 4) is quite common (see template on this
page). Many ghosts develop unusual senses as well, and
a particularly strong ghost may have an array of mystical
powers, commonly including Affliction (fear or ghostly
wail), Environment (darkness, cold), Illusion (related to
their death), or Move Object.
CAPERS
Adventures taking place in or involving a historical district
can include the following:
DIGGING UP THE PAST
An archeological project in the city’s historic district turns
up an unusual “time capsule” containing a note written to
the heroes—from themselves! It provides a cryptic clue
about some future event that will send the heroes into the
past, where they will be involved in a historical event (and
leave themselves the note). Is the time-trip an accident or
deliberate? What’s more, is the note an attempt to help
the heroes or to ensure that a predestined time-loop is
fulfilled, even if it dooms them?
GHOST STORY
A historic haunting has become unusually active, perhaps
even violent. It turns out the ghost is that of a murder
victim whose long-dead killer was never brought to jus-
tice. Now new evidence has come to light in the form of
documents given to the historical society. Can the heroes
follow the ghost’s clues to unravel the mystery? What hap-
pens when someone protecting the killer’s otherwise re-
spectable historic legacy discovers what they are doing?
PRESERVING HISTORY
Sites around the city suffer severe attacks of vandalism: ar-
son, structural collapse, and the like. They are all owned by
the same real estate development company, and the at-
tacks are intended to drive the company into bankruptcy
to prevent incursion into the city’s historic district. The real
estate developer is unscrupulous, but the vandals, while
well intentioned, are using criminal methods that may get
people hurt or even killed.
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System Reference Document, Copyright 2000, Wizards of
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Mutants & Masterminds Danger Zones: Historic District,
Copyright 2021, Green Ronin Publishing, LLC; Author
Steve Kenson.

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