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I've come across a few different calcs that have some contradictory standards regarding on how they've been measured.
Here the energy density of fuels was used as means to dismiss the destructivity of a weapon claiming that the gasoline would result in building level explosions by chain reaction
Here the energy density of fuels was dismissed and the feat was only rated based on how much heat the flames can transmit to a character
[here the use of the explosion formula was denied on the basis that the explosion originates from gas]
[this was accepted using the fireball formula despite kepkley suggesting how fuel was involved in it, and the use of energy density seems to have been rejected as well]
While it's not pretty evident at a first glance, there seems to be some disconnect between calcers as to how interpret and measure these explosions.
So I ask, how exactly are we supposed to measure these types of explosions if neither the fireball formula nor the energy density can be used?
I would argue that we should measure them using the fireball formula on the basis that fiction very blatantly portrays them as detonations regardless of how detonative the fuel is in real life and doesn't lead to inflation unlike using the energy density as the values usually line up with the actual AoE/DC of the explosion, it's also not impossible for fuels to cause an actual detonation in real life when subjected to extreme conditions
Here the energy density of fuels was used as means to dismiss the destructivity of a weapon claiming that the gasoline would result in building level explosions by chain reaction
Here the energy density of fuels was dismissed and the feat was only rated based on how much heat the flames can transmit to a character
[here the use of the explosion formula was denied on the basis that the explosion originates from gas]
[this was accepted using the fireball formula despite kepkley suggesting how fuel was involved in it, and the use of energy density seems to have been rejected as well]
While it's not pretty evident at a first glance, there seems to be some disconnect between calcers as to how interpret and measure these explosions.
So I ask, how exactly are we supposed to measure these types of explosions if neither the fireball formula nor the energy density can be used?
I would argue that we should measure them using the fireball formula on the basis that fiction very blatantly portrays them as detonations regardless of how detonative the fuel is in real life and doesn't lead to inflation unlike using the energy density as the values usually line up with the actual AoE/DC of the explosion, it's also not impossible for fuels to cause an actual detonation in real life when subjected to extreme conditions