| mjmeans |
Okay, I know the silliness of shurikens has been discussed before. But here is one more...
So my character buys 500 shurikens. Hangs on the outside of a barn 10 feet away. The barn wall is made of a nice soft pine wood. And the ground is grassy dirt. Then the character proceeds to throw all shurikens at the target shuriken on the wall.
Those shurikens (ammunition) that hit the target shuriken are all automatically destroyed. Not damaged; no possibility of repair. Yet no matter how many shurikens hit the target shuriken on the wall, the target shuriken is never even the slightest bit scratched because 1) the shuriken that hit it can only do 2 points of damage (plus any strength bonus), thus will never exceed the 10 hardness of the target shuriken; and 2) shurikens are piercing weapons and cannot even sunder in the first place no matter how much strength or other bonus damage is applied.
In addition, all shuriken that miss the target shuriken on the wall has a 50% chance of being destroyed even though the soft wall and grassy ground prevent them from getting lost.
I understand why the enchantment costs of shuriken needs to be treated as ammunition, but the mechanical resemblance of non-magical shuriken in Pathfinder to actual shuriken is as poor as saying a marshmallow behaves like a concrete block when thrown. Of course it depends on how old the marshmallow is. :)