Basic Expert: So you decided to nuke your PCs

How do you calculate a nuke's damage? Well oddly enough, back in the AD&D DMG by Gary Gygax there was a section called Six-guns and Sorcery.

Basically a Stick of Dynamite did 4d6 damage (no save) and oddly enough three sticks was about a pound of dynamite. 2240 pounds of the stuff was a ton and a kiloton was one of the yield quantities of a really small nuke.

So minimum (no save) damage of a 1 kiloton nuke would be 4 dice x 3 sticks x 2240 pounds x 1000 tons equals 26,880,000 hp minimum or 26880000d6 damage (good luck rolling all those anytime soon).

What has this got to do with a Nuke?



 Weapon           Blast Radius 
 50,000 KT            2.3 Km       
 15,000 KT           1.42 Km
 1,000 KT              0.48 Km     
 350 KT                 0.32 Km
 18 KT                    0.1 Km      

Just posting salvage stuff from my old blog.