[HOE] explosion "reduction"?

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

Has it occurred to anyone else that the reduction in die type for things
like Nuke have actually made them MORE deadly?  It's the same reason that
4d6 is better statistically than 3d8.  The lower die type results in an
increased chance of aces, therefore the d12s are (at least theoretically)
going to roll higher than d20s.  I thought of this when I was recounting the
story of a guy who took more damage from an exploding flamethrower than the
guy who was wearing it, even though there was a wall between them.  Has
anyone else noticed this to be the case?

Nick Zachariasen
Editor Emeritus
Trojan Times