I plan on running a M&M game for some close friends who are all into tabletop and roleplay. I want to stray from the idea of a superpowered society though, and simply have the characters exist in 2017 where for a variety of reasons, "superheroes" are beginning to crop up.
The idea is that as the party are some of the world's first, not only do they have a great amount of power to do heroic shit, but they are also responsible for how the world comes to view extraordinary men and women like them.
What I'm unsure about is the exact setting. It'll be set in America since my players are all yanks, but what medium-sized city could the players start off in as run-of-the-mill people with new abilities? Nothing huge like LA or NYC.
Thoughts on the setting and the campaign?
You could always make up a city. Or look around for smaller cities, places that have more than 100,000 but less than a million citizens.
If you do go with a smaller city, you have to take into account questions like "why here? Wh not a bigger, more important city?"
If you pick a pre-existing city and don't make one up, you'll want to do some research on the culture of the area, the demographics, the businesses... all of these things could play into motivations for characters, both heroes and villains.