Bandolier of Shuriken enhancing?

[shalandar]

Like arrows, bolts and sling stones, shuriken are considered ammo...but unlike arrows and bolts, they aren't projected from anything, just thrown.

One of my players wants to make a bandolier (chest slot) or gloves (glove slot obviously) that he holds his shuriken in that act like a projectile weapon for enhancement purposes. Effectively, he wants to use bow enhancements on shuriken.

Considering he would pay the same cost as a magical bow, enhances the ammo the same as a bow would, and would be taking up a magic item slot....I'm leaning towards letting him do this. I was just wondering what other people thought.

[Bob Bob Bob]

The advantage of shuriken over those others is that they are thrown weapons, and so add strength to damage. The downside is... well, the rest. 10 foot range, 1d2 damage, no crit range or bonus, and usable by monks.

If I were to price this out for a player I'd probably tack on a 1,000 gp tax as that's the price of an adaptable bow. In return for that, I'd try to make it slotless. Bows don't take up magic item slots, this shouldn't either.

An alternative to enchanting the shuriken would be something that generates them, so every time you reach in the pouch you'd pull out a <whatever the pouch was enchanted with> shuriken. This would take care of useful shuriken but doesn't let you do the double enchantment (though still caps at +10, I believe) of bows and arrows.

[Goblin13]

In the Eberron Setting of old 3.5 there was an item called Mind Blade Gauntlets for Kalashtar that enchanted the Mind Blade with a specific property each time the user expended Psionic Focus, and it lasted 1 min each time. The price was very high ( 22k for +1 Enchant ) but I think if you take away the all Psionic only stuff it could be manageable !

[shalandar]

Bob Bob Bob wrote:

The advantage of shuriken over those others is that they are thrown weapons, and so add strength to damage. The downside is... well, the rest. 10 foot range, 1d2 damage, no crit range or bonus, and usable by monks.

This isn't true. Composite long/short bows allow strength damage. Adaptive may be a good additional cost.

[Bob Bob Bob]

shalandar wrote:

Bob Bob Bob wrote:

The advantage of shuriken over those others is that they are thrown weapons, and so add strength to damage. The downside is... well, the rest. 10 foot range, 1d2 damage, no crit range or bonus, and usable by monks.

This isn't true. Composite long/short bows allow strength damage. Adaptive may be a good additional cost.

Composite bows add a specific strength bonus, and penalize you if you don't have enough. Shuriken just add your full strength bonus every time. With adaptable now existing though, it looks like the price of "always add full strength" is 1,000 gp. So really a drop in the bucket once they start enchanting it as a weapon.