Anchoring Shurikens!

[Shinigaze]

The anchoring special weapon quality says that it can only be applied to melee or thrown weapons. A shuriken is a thrown weapon that is treated as ammunition for the purposes of drawing, enchanting and what happens to it after it is thrown. So does this mean if I try to make Shurikens of Anchoring that the weapon quality would be wasted because the Shuriken is supposed to break upon contact? What about if I made it out of adamantium? I only ask because as a ninja/monk you can get alot of attacks in with shurikens and it would be cool to become a battlefield controller for a few key fights. Unfortunately even if it is allowed it might not be viable as a stack of 50 shuriken would cost around 24k gp (12k if you have a crafter in the group).

[Jason Nelson]

The phrase "treated as ammunition for the purposes of... enchanting" answers your question. Anchoring can't be placed on ammunition, end of story.

Also, adamantine construction doesn't alter the fact that ammunition is destroyed on a hit.

[Shinigaze]

Jason Nelson wrote:

The phrase "treated as ammunition for the purposes of... enchanting" answers your question. Anchoring can't be placed on ammunition, end of story.

Also, adamantine construction doesn't alter the fact that ammunition is destroyed on a hit.

Cool that makes sense, but what about throwing weapons that make no mention for enchanting but are still destroyed upon use? For instance, a jolting dart or a Pilum say they are destroyed upon use but they are classified as thrown weapons and no mention of them being considered ammunition is made except under the pilum description which only says "Like ammunition, a thrown pilum that hits its target is destroyed."?

[Ashram]

Just like the line "Like ammunition, this weapon is destroyed on impact" says, you could put Anchoring on a pilum or dart and it would do jack squat because the weapon shatters as soon as a successful attack is made. A destroyed weapon loses any and all magic properties.

Just stick to throwing Anchoring adamantine daggers, pal.

[Shinigaze]

Ashram wrote:

Just like the line "Like ammunition, this weapon is destroyed on impact" says, you could put Anchoring on a pilum or dart and it would do jack squat because the weapon shatters as soon as a successful attack is made. A destroyed weapon loses any and all magic properties.

Just stick to throwing Anchoring adamantine daggers, pal.

Just asking to clarify, I planned on putting them onto another thrown weapon but wanted to make sure.

[Shinigaze]

Another question about the anchoring property. In the description it says it functions as an immovable rod, then nowhere in the weapon quality description does it note when or if the weapon stops being stuck. Now looking at the description for immovable rod it says there is a button that activates and deactivates the rod as a move action so we can assume that it is similar for the weapon so does that mean that someone with a high enough spellcraft check can just know this and use a move action to remove the weapon themselves?