How do you determine if a ranged throwing weapon (like the bolas, darts, javelins, shuriken) is light, one-handed, or two-handed?
I remember there being a paragraph somewhere in the rules that stated what was what, at least as far as the core rulebook's weapons wee concerned, but I can't even seem to find that now.
Of particular concern to me, however, are weapons from supplements, like the boomerang, chakram, hunga munga, pilum, Shoanti bola, sling glove, and throwing shield (from the Adventurer's Armory and the Advanced Player's Guide). Weapons from supplements rarely, if ever, clarify their handedness.
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Since you apply your full Strength modifier to thrown weapons (p. 141), I'd treat them all as one-handed, if it ever mattered and wasn't specified in the weapon's description. To put it another way, throwing even a shuriken takes about the same amount of concentration and effort as a melee attack with a one-handed weapon.
Some ranged weapons specify that they require two hands to use and theoretically a thrown weapon could have that property (for example, a GM could rule that using a two-handed melee weapon as an improvised thrown weapon takes two hands as well as a full-round action) but that's not precisely the same question.
All of the weapons you mention seem as if they'd reasonably count as one-handed.
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How do you determine if a ranged throwing weapon (like the bolas, darts, javelins, shuriken) is light, one-handed, or two-handed?
Ranged weapons don't have a level of effort (light, one-handed, two-handed), although melee weapons that can also be thrown do. The only place it would normally come up is for TWF, in which case there is a partial list at in the TWF section in the combat rules (that's the section you are having trouble finding). For items not on the list...judgement call.
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Since you apply your full Strength modifier to thrown weapons (p. 141), I'd treat them all as one-handed, if it ever mattered and wasn't specified in the weapon's description. To put it another way, throwing even a shuriken takes about the same amount of concentration and effort as a melee attack with a one-handed weapon.
All of the weapons you mention seem as if they'd reasonably count as one-handed.
My mistake, p. 202 of the core rulebook names darts and shuriken as light weapons for purposes of two-weapon fighting.
I still think we could treat all the weapons the OP mentioned as one-handed if not specified.