Dynamite (Fallout: New Vegas)

Dynamite is a high explosive, consisting of an absorbent material soaked in nitroglycerin. It appears as a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Dynamite comes in sticks with fuses that stick out of them. Once lit, they are tossed at a hostile and will damage or kill them. It only requires 1 strength to use this very lightweight explosive weapon. However, it has a rather small blast radius for an explosive, which reduces its effectiveness against groups of enemies, while at the same time making it less of a friendly fire hazard.

Alternatively, one may place it on the ground by dropping it. You can then fire at it with weaponry or throw another explosive at it, adding to the damage. One can lure a target onto the dynamite for DAM shown on the stats screen. However, bear in mind that this kind of kill will not yield experience, but is another effective way to kill someone without changing anyone's opinion on your character, or gaining/losing karma.

It has the words "INERT" on both sides of the stick, near the fuse, also it has two American flags on each side of the stick as well as the word "DYNAMITE" on each side. The American flags look like the American flag of our world, as opposed to the different design used in the Fallout universe. Whether this is a design oversight or this is used to show just how old (presumably from before or around WWII, where the timeline diverges) these Dynamite sticks are is unknown.

The fuse takes 3 seconds to burn.

Variants

 * Long-Fuse Dynamite

Locations

 * Easy Pete can be convinced to hand some dynamite over to the player character if they can prove they can handle the sticks without killing everyone. This requires a skill of 25 in Explosives.
 * Dynamite can be obtained by killing Powder Gangers such as the ones outside of the players' starting area or by storming their base at the NCR Correctional Facility.
 * Dynamite can be obtained every 3 days from Eddie of the Powder Gangers if you're liked enough by them.
 * Some Convicts carry dynamite, although they aren't a very reliable source.