Explode Modification suggestion

[Verzen]

Can Explode be modified a bit to be a bit more flavorful in which we can choose 'how' we explode? Electricity flies out? Fire explodes? Sonic blasts out? etc.. along with a corresponding debuff. Fire might cause everyone around me who failed their reflex save to catch fire.. Sonic would deafen everyone around me if they failed their save.. so on and so forth.

I feel this would be more thematic for some of our builds and would allow us to keep up a specific theme that we have going. *I just built a guy around sonic damage and it feels weird to explode with fire*

[Alchemic_Genius]

I also find myself wishing you could choose your damage type a bit. Electric is more appropriate for if your inventor is more teslapunk themed, any physical damage would work well for a clockwork mechanist, cold damage by venting coolant, acid or poison even if you spray caustic or toxic lubricants or whatevs. Sonic would be a bit too good imo, unless you grab a feat for it

I also would love to see modification feats for explosion. Some of my wishlist items for it:

Directed explosion: turn your emanation into a cone with 2x the length of your explosion radius

Explosive retribution: reaction, requires armor innovation. When someone hits you, they save against your explosion damage. Unstable, of course

Explosive modulation: pick an additional damage type for your explosion. Choose which damage type it deals when you explode

Concussive Explosion: people who fail their save against your explosion are pushed back, or pushed back and knocked prone on a crit fail

[MaxAstro]

I was very surprised that Explode doesn't have any modification feats.

After my first session of playtesting yesterday, Explode was very clearly my inventor player's favorite ability.