Welcome to the Freedomverse!

In order to handle a large number of players, characters and GM, we have to establish a set of rules to help preserve the setting and ensure that GM’s of various skill levels can work with the characters being brought to their games with a minimum of effort.

Philosophy

Our general Philosophy is that you are creating characters that will participate in Group Play. Characters that can “do everything” or don’t need a team at all are anathema to that goal. This means that characters like that will not be approved.
Characters should be designed to be fun, not in an effort to be “unbeatable.” M&M is an easy game to break. We’ve all seen character than can destroy the Earth for a handful of Power Points and we’re not impressed. Don’t try and bring in characters with unstoppable attacks or impenetrable defenses.

PL Shifts are limited to 50% of the PL.
PL 8 games, the maximum shift is 4
PL 10 games, the maximum shift is 5.
Shifts of more than 2 or 3 will receive additional scrutiny and must make sense for the character.

Powers and Abilities that break the action economy will be heavily regulated and only approved on a case by case basis, and only at low Effect Ranks.
Minions, Sidekicks, Summoning are not allowed.
Minions that can not affect combat in any way MAY be allowed in certain circumcstances.

Meta-level game breaking effects that create chaos in storytelling or in challenging the players are highly restricted.
“Bathroom Mentalists” — characters that can “attack” without being readily attacked in return are unacceptable and will not be approved.
Reaction Movement effects fall into this Category.
Senses: Penetrates Concealment or Remote Sensing are key effects that may invoke this rejection.
Holding Back — Creates difficult and unbalanced gameplay situations and is generally not allowed.
Variable — The Variable power is highly problematic and is not allowed.
This is the Variable Effect being discussed, not the Variable Descriptor Modifier. They are separate things.

These are Effects that don’t fall into the above Categories.

Intelligence, Jack of All Trades, Eidetic Memory
This combination may be allowed, but can be problematic.
It has to make sense for the character and it must not obviate other players ability to contribute.

High ranks of Damage Immunity should be limited in some fashion.
Immunity: Toughness, Fortitude and Will — players may only have one of these, and Toughness must be limited in some fashion.

Excessive levels of Luck (3+) will be heavily regulated.
Freedomverse allows the Expanded Luck categories from Power Profiles.
Reaction and Trigger can only be activated by an event that has already happened, not that is going to happen.
Healing is limited to 5 ranks for use on others. For use on self only, all of the limits discussed below for Regeneration apply.

High ranks is not a casual choice and should be central to the character and limited in some fashion. What does this mean specifically?
Generally speaking, a Regeneration of 5 or under is acceptable with nearly any build.
For characters with a Regeneration between 6-9 the balance of the Regen will be much more tightly scrutinized in relation to the build as whole and may require some balancing with a limitation of some kind.
A Regeneration of 10 or higher will always require a balancing or limiting element of some kind.
When combined with other strong defensive effects (Toughness, Insubstantial, Concealment) may result in a Story-Breaking character. Use caution.

Unless on a Vetted Superteam, this is not generally allowed without specific permission.
Holding Back is not allowed in The Freedomverse.

Crafting follows the RAW rules for the most part. There is a change to the skill used in the Construction Phase, however.

Prerequisites:

The character must have the Artificer, Inventor or Ritualist Advantages.
The player must have access to appropriate materials needed.
Design Phase: The GM rolls the the characters Technology or Expertise: Magic skill
The DC is 10 + the Total PP to be put into the Invention.
This requires 1 Hour per PP to be put into the Invention and may be reduced using Mental Quickness.
This may be done as a Routine Check at the players request.
On Failure, the player my try again, with the same investment of time.
This phase is skipped when Jury Rigging.
Construction Phase: The player rolls an appropriate Expertise skill to build the item (Engineering, Robotics, Smithing, etc).
The DC is 10 + the Total PP to be put into the Invention. If Jury-Rigging, the DC is increased by 5.
This requires 4 Hours per PP to be put into the Invention and may be reduced by Physical Quickness. If Jury-Rigging, time is reduced to 1 round per PP in which case Quickness does not apply..
This may be done as a Routine Check unless it is being Jury Rigged.
On Failure, the device simply does not work.
Items built in this way may be used for a single scene before becoming nonfunctional.