Dragon
Dragon
Dragon
In a move that seemed obvious to park service rangers, used to disposing of large
animals on the order of Elk with a stick or two of dynamite, the body was packed
with half a ton of TNT.
Pieces of blubber endangered the on lookers and TV crew located over a hundred
yards (70 hexes) away and piece large enough to crush the roof of a brand new
Cadillac hit the parking area well over a quarter mile away (307 hexes).
Think Reno 911 Miami, but with some of the chunks of gore weighing pounds and
raining down at 32 feet per second, per second.
This was FAR from effective in disposing of the carcass, with well over three-
quarters of the body remaining intact.
I have TNT listed at 4.2 * 10^16 ergs per ton, with half that being 2.1 * 10^16
ergs.
I have a conversion factor of 7.367 * 10^-8 for ergs into foot pounds.
That gives me 15.4707 call it 1.5 * 10^9 foot pounds in half a ton of TNT.
This works out to about 1,500,000 foot pounds of force per pound, and @ 100 foot
pounds of force per point of damage, this works out to about 15,000 points of
potential damage in a pound of dynamite.
This is in the neighborhood of the average damage of a 3333 ST Wizards Wrath @ 4.5
dam per 1pt ST, avg.
It's convenient to note that TNT is around 14 to 15 times more powerful than
gunpowder, allowing for simple scaling between black powder and TNT.