There's a few other morals to that, story, too.

1: Never (need to) carry an explosive larger than your head.
2: Never carry an explosive that won't fit in your launcher.
3: Never carry an explosive with a minimum safe distance which exceeds 80% of your launcher's maximum range.

80%? Living dangerously.

Don't carry detonators and explosives in the same bag either.

But if Batman does it, can it really be a bad thing?

Good Safety Tip.

Quite funny, I'm currently reading "Better to Ask Forgiveness" by Michael Z. Williamson, the book mostly revolves around a group of mercenaries hired for executive protection. The striking detail is their demolitions expert, Elke.
Case in point:

Mind you, she naturally has the good stuff.
So far, it's been a pleasant read and coincides perfectly with this thread

None of his explosives are as big as his head. They all fit in convenient, batarang-sized packages.

I hear you here. This situation is exactly why we have hand carts.

Wait, is that the original user's head (pixie sized) or the head of the man shaped drone they are driving?

Just thinking about KI here.

I should clarify: 80% of your launcher's maximum range is the upper limit for the explosive, not the minimum.

Though, knowing PCs, yeah, they'll treat it as a minimum and a maximum.



Yes.

That's better.

Funny, that was the first question that popped into my head when I saw that post.

Ironically, that pixie never messed with demolitions. At most she used grenades and ex-ex ammo. Old Man Jones, on the other hand, seemed to have explosive charges secreted pretty much everywhere.

"Wait, how do you have the facility covered with charges already? We just got here." "YOU just got here. I visited the place last night."




-k

We indirectly attributed to nuking Seattle. Nuking as in glass as long as eye can see.

Our group blew up some kind of explosive tanks in the middle of seattle in the harbour district after a run went totally sideways:
The mission was to extract scientists, some of the equipment and to blow up the remaining equipment that was there. So during the shadows of the night, we accessed the port area with some fake company ids and disguises, which made already some serious magic necessary as we had to mind control some guards.

Anyways we infilitrated the target (a small ship), and started searching. First room being checked was the guards room .. So from now on we had to hurry. After we got everything we blew up the ship with some c4 maximizing the firepower by placing the explosives at good locations.

Someone else blew up the whole ship about 20 seconds later, we don't know why yet or who though... But that was not everything on that evening. Now we had a bazillion of lonestar units searching for us, we ran and tried to escape and took some wrong turns. We endet up in a dead end, which now escalated quickly.... 1st I found out that shooting on cars with a heavy pistol is a waste of time and ammo. Also when neurostun grenades are thrown at you you should run away...

So the whole group scrambled into various directions to stay alive, when one of us went ocmpletely crazy and startd to blow up some big oil tanks and such stuff, so a huge explosion and fire spread out quickly, which helped the others to escape. I levitated into some port corp building and luckily disguised again as normal worker with a fake id.

one character drowned while escaping. One character stood no chance when taking fire from the lonestar drones , helicopters and what not... and to our surprise our minotaur happened to carry some "diving suit" with him , which allwoed him to swim away w/o trouble...

Well this was the biggest explosion our team caused so far.....

So that's how the Great Seattle San Francisco Fire of 2067 started.

You glassed the city of Seattle?

How? Why?!

Man... The... I can't... The political fallout of that is going to be a nightmare.

People sometimes get stressed out by the endless rain and lack of sunlight...

Heh, sounds like there's a story there omae. Care to share?

That's what I want to know!

Please, please! Share!

Genuinely impressed. That's not easy to do.

Rendering me speechless, or glassing Seattle?

Both.

Apparently they're both as easy as "00000000"

It takes significantly more than a few megatons to glass an entire city.

I seem to be missing a reference here. "00000000"?

USAF was told to introduce PALs on their bombers and missiles. SAC promptly installed them and left them set to all zeros for years, because the were more worried that the PAL code wouldn't get distributed correctly than someone would use a nuke without proper authorization.

Wow, that's precisely stupid enough to be believable.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/n..._n_4386784.html

The best part of history is finding out how much dumb luck it's taken to keep us alive.

IIRC, we ticked off a Force 80 or so spirit enough that he caused Mt. Rainier to erupt, which turned the surrounding forest into a wasteland and left a pall over Seattle and Portland. But, in our defense, at the time we were under a curse/geas so it seemed like the right thing to do.

I know some conspiracy theorists who think this really happened. It was Mt. St. Helens. Not Mt. Ranier, but supposedly someone pissed off a mountain man around May 18th, 1980.