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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6930852" data-attributes="member: 6669384">In no particular order:&nbsp; Suffocation rules are used for drowning and/or strangulation.D&amp;D novels aren't rules.Tinkerers and Alchemists' work is fare from meaningless in a &quot;no gunpowder&quot; world.&nbsp; They're simply prevented from producing gunpowder and similar explosives.I didn't say, or even suggest, that &quot;you can't do anything without magic.&quot;&nbsp; I just said you can't make explosions.&nbsp; My suggested &quot;law of physics&quot; was that the sudden heat transfer needed to turn gunpowder from a flash-fizzle into a &quot;boom&quot; didn't work.&nbsp; Pouring water into an active volcano will produce clouds of steam, but not steam explosions:&nbsp; It just can't boil and expand that fast.&nbsp; (IRL a Greek island once erupted and blew itself out.&nbsp; When the hollowed out cone collapsed and the sea rushed in, it hit the hot lava bed and caused a steam explosion that could be hears as far away as Norway.&nbsp; The resultant tidal wave destroyed the Minoan fleet, turning them from a mighty sea-born empire into a small island of ruins over night.) In 3.*, there are no rules for lamp oil Molatov's.&nbsp; They don't exist to the best of my knowledge.&nbsp; You use alchemist's Fire instead.&nbsp; And in any case firebombs aren't explosions, just incendiary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 6930852, member: 6669384"] In no particular order: Suffocation rules are used for drowning and/or strangulation. D&D novels aren't rules. Tinkerers and Alchemists' work is fare from meaningless in a "no gunpowder" world. They're simply prevented from producing gunpowder and similar explosives. I didn't say, or even suggest, that "you can't do anything without magic." I just said you can't make explosions. My suggested "law of physics" was that the sudden heat transfer needed to turn gunpowder from a flash-fizzle into a "boom" didn't work. Pouring water into an active volcano will produce clouds of steam, but not steam explosions: It just can't boil and expand that fast. (IRL a Greek island once erupted and blew itself out. When the hollowed out cone collapsed and the sea rushed in, it hit the hot lava bed and caused a steam explosion that could be hears as far away as Norway. The resultant tidal wave destroyed the Minoan fleet, turning them from a mighty sea-born empire into a small island of ruins over night.) In 3.*, there are no rules for lamp oil Molatov's. They don't exist to the best of my knowledge. You use alchemist's Fire instead. And in any case firebombs aren't explosions, just incendiary. [/QUOTE]

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