Demolitions (Cyberpunk RED)
Definition
Demolitions is the skill of working with explosives—setting charges, defusing bombs, understanding blast patterns, and using controlled detonation for breaching, demolition, and destruction. In Night City, demolitions expertise serves both creative and destructive purposes. Demolitions uses your TECH stat and covers everything from rigging a door charge to breaching a wall, from planting a car bomb to defusing one someone planted for you. The skill includes understanding explosive materials, calculating blast radii, placing charges for maximum effect with minimum collateral damage (or maximum collateral, if that's the goal), and working with detonation systems. For edgerunners, Demolitions provides breaching capability that no amount of lockpicking can match, the ability to create diversions, and the critical skill of recognizing and defusing explosive traps before they end your career in a flash of light and shrapnel.
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Where do you get explosives in Night City?
The black market, nomad contacts, military surplus, and fixers who deal in heavy ordinance. Explosives are controlled but not impossible to acquire for connected edgerunners.