[SS] Reigning in Projectile Damage

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

I think he was using "energy" in a literal sense: Ten pounds of boom-brick has half the Joules released than a 20-lb. boom-brick.

How that translates to GURPS damage is obviously the next step, but I don't think he was taking that step in his post at that instant.

It's the important step and particularly since he was talking about nukes where even "generic energy" is not proportional to the mass of the whole bomb. It might be proportional to the mass of the actively fissioning/fusing material but not the initiators and casing.