What I have concluded about Marvel Heroic RPG

[james_davis_nicoll]

Action risks feeding the Doom Pool (which is used by the antagonists) therefore to minimize the odds against them PCs should do as little as possible. I think the newspaper comic strip Spider-Man must be using MHRPG.

Comments

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

Creative solution: cow + catapult.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

The requirement was for a live cow.

They had to go commit longshore piracy to get the cow; since they were in a feud with some folks on another island who had cows, this was pretty easy in a conceptual sense but had execution issues.

Once they had the cow (think wee highland coo), it was a combination of mountaineering and a mobile, well, _two_ mobile, and wasn't it funny when the need for the second one was recognized, cow platform that could be fitted to the cliff face and support the cow. (also, hay and buckets of fresh water because it took some time to get the cow all the way up the cliff.)

The seer charged the PCs a cow in return for a professional opinion about how to deal with something mystical and non-standard, I think the wraith-with-POW remnant of Eyvinder the Snake-hurler. (A man who died very angry indeed.)

Oh, and the PCs did not know why the seer wanted a live cow delivered to his dwelling. The leading suspicion (since the setting was vaguely Gloranthesque) was that the seer was engaging in a rash attempt to get a sky-bull to come down and breed with it, but why the seer would want to do that wasn't at all clear.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Surely this could not be the prelude to anything that would trouble player characters ever again!