Just learned that you can blow open safes

[Granolaboi69]

Does that make safe cracking an almost useless skill? Been leveling it up on one of my characters for a while lol

[Huitzilopochtli]

there is a high chance some of the loot in the safe will become junk. Better to never do that. And there are more safes than TNT sticks in the game. I think TNT is useful for blowing open places that need brute force which I lost when I dropped Deth from the party.

[red255]

you can get Explosives as loot from random raiders so its not limited in supply.

Brute force is a better skill than lockpicking. not every lock can be exploded, that becomes less of a thing as the game goes on.