Don't kid yourself; a relative of mine blew off half his hand with a mere 5 ounces of black powder last year. No more use of his hand.
I’m sincerely sorry about what happened to your relative, afterhoursarmory.
I had a legitimate duty of training with demo for a few years—mostly materials that were very stable and efficient. Yes, black powder can be very dangerous. Depends on what’s done with it. It’s relatively very bulky, smoky, dirty, flashy stuff, too.
And oh, yeah, BenLurkin, if in any kind of container (a building, for example), it can make a big blast, and with fairly flammable materials around, a fire. Black powder was notorious for unintentional, incidental fires in a few battles in the 1800s.
Black powder can also work very nicely and surprisingly accurately in a well built muzzle loader or even a cartridge similar to what was originally made for it. I’m too lazy to do all of that cleaning afterwards, though. ;-)