The Protectors of New England are a hero Super Group (SG) existing on the Liberty Server from the  exciting 'City of Heroes' Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) game! The Protectors of New England (PoNE) SG  contains a variety of heroes from Paragon City and New England, all under the leadership of 'Yankee Minuteman'!  Beware, villains!

Protecting the Cradle of Liberty

19 Dec 09 (updated 25 Dec)

The 2009 Winter Event is now upon us out until the 12th of January 2010!

New this year is the Winter Lord event!

As per previous years, mysterious glowing presents appear throughout Paragon City and the Rogue Isles, courtesy of Gamester.Upon opening a present, a hero or villain would find that if they were "nice," they would enjoy a nice reward. If they were "naughty," however, they would find themselves surrounded by the Winter Horde, ready to make their holidays downright dangerous!

Opening enough presents will, as in previous years, spawns a Winter Lord. However, when the Winter Lord is now defeated, rather than getting your "Frozen Fury" badge, heroes and villains can enter Lord Winter's domain through a giant present left behind. Here, they face off against Lord Winter and his Winter Guardians and will earn Candy Canes, Reward Merits, and the Lord/Lady of Winter badge for defeating Lord Winter.

Also new this year for the Winter Event, you can purchase an emote for 'throw snowflakes' using earned candy canes from Winter Event functions!

Also, since this is the time of giving, please take the time to help those that you can. No donation is too small; event $1 makes a difference. Check out this incredible COH player-created charity, Real World Heroes, that is available for you to donate to if you so choose....

Sacramento, Calif. -- Nov. 20, 2009 -- Players of the "City of Heroes" massively-multiplayer online (MMO) computer game are collaborating to collect donations for three real world charities this holiday season. They have created a six-week donation drive at www.RealWorldHero.com that will run Nov. 20, 2009 through Jan. 1, 2010 and be promoted from within the "City of Heroes" game environment.

The idea was formulated by Joel and Karen Garcia, long-time "City of Heroes" players, after attending the HeroCon 2009 event hosted by NCsoft and Paragon Studios, the development studios behind the game. The gaming couple was inspired to encourage real world heroism from fellow gamers after hearing the extensive complimentary comments of the game development team toward the dynamic gaming community during an industry panel, including those from Brian Clayton, Executive Producer and Studio Head of Paragon Studios -- "You guys are by far the best community in the MMO space bar none."

Other members of the panel suggested that perhaps the idea of playing heroes had attracted a community of people who reflect those qualities idealized in society’s favorite comic book super heroes.

With that in mind, www.RealWorldHero.com was created to draw the "City of Heroes" community together in supporting three selected charities this holiday season:

100% of all donations made through www.RealWorldHero.com will go directly to these non-profit organizations.

 -Yankee Minuteman

Governor of the Protectors of  New England