[HoE] Nukes (WAS Re: Something About a Sword - the EMP *SOME SPOILERS*)

[Doug Stalker <dougs@technologist.com>]

Steve Crow wrote:

> But the writers seem to seriously underestimate the scale of his Nuke.  He
> uses it on a single robot.  Don't know what the Doomsayers in other folks'
> campaigns roll when casting this, but the craters we get are _tens_ of yards
> in diameter.  Heck, some of the ones my group's DS casts, there wouldn't be
> a factory left standing...  :)

The Best I've ever seen was 9d20 from a Rad-Baby.  And then lots of aces. And
just after the "no armor for massive damage" house rule.  I thought spreading
the enemies out in a 50 yard loose formation would limit the nuke to getting
only 2 or 3 of them.   The really amusing part was it was supposed to only
attract there attention and slow them down a bit, not kill them all and leave a
giant clearing in the forest.


Maybe there should be an option fo the doomie to specify a lower blast radius
BEFORE rolling to cast the miracle, or possibly the option to use extra success
to shape the explosion to an arc from the impact point.  What do other people
think of this idea?


 - doug -