Explosive on Afflictions

[oneofmanynameless]

How does the explosive modifier work on an affliction? I can imagine situations were it would probably be the most accurate for the effect in question (like a flashbang grenade) but I can't find rules anywere in basic for how they could be used together.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by oneofmanynameless

How does the explosive modifier work on an affliction? I can imagine situations were it would probably be the most accurate for the effect in question (like a flashbang grenade) but I can't find rules anywere in basic for how they could be used together.

That's because you can't. Explosion is a sub-modifier of the Damage Modifiers enhancement and that is meant for Innate Attacks only despite it being an Attack Modifier.

[Tinman]

I'm guessing you want area of effect not explosive.

[Plane]

We do know that the way 1/2D works on afflictions is giving +3 to resist, so I could see it being reasonable to allow other conditions where you might suffer half damage (Dissipating or Explosion) so long as targets also got +3 to resist in that situation.

Explosion divides damage by 3xyards though, so for 1/3 damage there should be a higher bonus than merely +3.

I don't know how to guess at the math used to estimate what that bonus ought to be though.

[oneofmanynameless]

Originally Posted by Christopher R. Rice

That's because you can't. Explosion is a sub-modifier of the Damage Modifiers enhancement and that is meant for Innate Attacks only despite it being an Attack Modifier.

Well that explains why it simply doesn't exist.

Originally Posted by Tinman

I'm guessing you want area of effect not explosive.

With dissipation. I do not know why I forgot that dissipation works with afflictions.

Is there a way to give a dissipating area of effect a larger full strength area before it dissipates? I'm thinking about a flashbang it should basically be at full strength out to about a 2 yard radius, and then dissipate out from there.