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Black Powder: Black powder readily burns. It can explode, but this usually requires the charge to be confined in order to build up pressure. This is of little comfort to those charged with guarding magazines or storehouses of the stuff, as any spark can set it off and no amount of yelling at the universe after the fact that it was not confined tends to have much effect on the inevitable consequences.
However, it does mean that when setting blasting charges, the powder should be well tamped in order to get a blast rather than just a bright flame.
Black powder will neither ignite nor explode if it gets wet. While merely dampened powder may work again once it is dried, powder that gets soaked is ruined. It will need to not only be dried out again, but also re-milled.
A typical blasting operation involves measuring the powder, tamping it into a hole or other vessel to hold it in, attaching a fuse cut to the right delay, lighting the fuse, and then leaving the area before the fuse burns down and sets off the charge.
Choosing the right amount of explosive is a DC 5 task of Smarts + Fix and Build (Demolition).
Setting the charge is a DC 5 task of Smarts + Blow Up.
On a failure, roll 1d6:
- Short fuse. Every degree of failure is -2 RS to the time before detonation.
- Hangfire. The charge will explode in Value Of [2d6] turns after the fuse burns in to it.
- Dud. Nothing happens. The powder is not set off.
- Dud. Nothing happens. The powder is not set off.
- Fizzle. The powder burns but does not explode.
- Long fuse. Every degree of failure is +2 RS to the time before detonation.
| Description | Pen | Wound | AP | BBRS | BRPB | Sig | | 2 lb keg: Blast | -2 RS | | (7) | +0 | +2[-8] | +22 | | Contact | 12 | +8¼ | (7) | | | | | 5 lb keg: Blast | -1 RS | | (7) | +½ | +3[-8½] | +23 | | Contact | 15 | +9¼ | (7) | | | | | 10 lb keg: Blast | +1 RS | | (7) | +½ | +3[-6½] | +24 | | Contact | 20 | +10 | (7) | | | | | 25 lb keg: Blast | +2 RS | | (7) | +1 | +4[-7½] | +26 | | Contact | 25 | +11 | (7) | | | | | 50 lb keg: Blast | +1½ RS | | (7) | +2 | +5[-8] | +27 | | Contact | 30 | +11½ | (7) | | | | | 100 lb keg: Blast | +3½ RS | | (7) | +2 | +6[-8½] | +28 | | Contact | 40 | +12¼ | (7) | | | |
- Powder Keg: Black powder is transported in barrels called kegs. The standard size for military gunpowder was 25 pound kegs. Mining companies often liked to store blasting powder in larger kegs, up to 100 pounds. Meanwhile, an individual would likely need only a few pounds at a time for hunting supplies.
Price: $0.3/lb
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