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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Ah, never heard of anything even remotely like them used in the Real World.
I strongly suspect that they were created by the video game devs and thus did what those persons wanted them to. A GM who wants to include them in his world is in an analagous position.
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It would be fairly easy to model them as a barrel of gunpowder with a fuse. I suspect doing so would quickly demonstrate that they're not much
use as a weapon.
Additional reasons to not even consider such a thing in reality that might escape notice in play include how basically terrible a life choice it would be to have a barrel of gunpowder in an exposed location during a naval battle...with fire right next to it, to make it even better. That stuff was confined to magazines for a reason!