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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 5882390" data-attributes="member: 1861">Listed above. 3080 for a single-person small Forge with a rechargeable set of energy retainers that doesn't burn out after it expends its EUs.  The forge can deal 12.8 damage on average, which is ~ 26 max.  If we want to stick with the facts, sitting smack dab between 4d6 or 5d6.  Of course when you discharge all of that energy you're going to be dealing damage to the actual forge itself, and isn't optimal.  To keep it in line with the cost of a Fireball of 5d6 (420 GP)... I'd make it 4d6.I put the cost of other sources in the listing below for a 10d6 and 20d6 'blast'  at 840-1680.  These forges would have 35-70 EU output.  Remember than an EU of 14.4 GP gives a BTU average output of 1375 or 1 damage/20' radius.  A space heater @ 5 EU that warms a chilly cottage explodes? Probably killing your average human commoner unless they are stabilized within 42 seconds (2 hp, 5 damage, -3 to -10, 7 rounds to death).  The local bakery explodes?  Think big, like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_East_Ohio_Gas_explosion" target="_blank">explosion</a> we had discussed before in your natural gas thread.  181 damage at the epicenter will kill anyone inside short of a fire immune creature or a dragon, and probably start a major fire across the area.  For these larger explosions I would probably use a halving principle from the focus of the 20d6 maximum.  181 damage at epicenter (20' radius)... 90 damage at a 40' radius, 45 damage at 60' radius (and halving stops).  Now that bakery costs 26040 GP to create just the oven's energy source.  For a 52d6 (rounding up) effect... You've made an atom bomb.  Well, not as powerful against humans (16d8*10 to humans in D20 Modern), but definitely fearsome.  Again I would also change the weight of larger capacity energy stones so that a 118 EU stone is not going to weigh a little over 2 lbs to prevent abuse.  For these large applications I would assume that the 'raw stone' weight stays at 118.  But the material required to actually cause the reaction to be focused and usable as something more than a giant lantern battery weighs 3 lbs/EU (same size as a Bullseye Lantern we used for the original Burner analogue).So the oven's full power supply weighs 356.7 lbs (~162 KG).  The space heater's power supply weighs 15.06 lbs (~7 KG).  Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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