shuriken a superior weapon?

[Destil]

I thought "superior" was just the new term for "exotic" weapons. It doesn't necessarily mean they are better, just different or uncommon.

But, that's what exotic meant in 3.0: mechanically better. Bastard sword. Dwarf War Axe. Double Sword (compare off-hand damage and single attacks using 1.5 Str).

3.5 muddied the water because it got it wrong. Exotic never meant 'rare' or 'uncommon'. It meant 'more difficult to learn and more powerfully if you do so'...

(Unless you're referring to monk weapons. In which case, exotic means 'bad', or 'unnecessary Asian-reflavored weapon that already exists in a better form, like a sickle')

EDIT
Ninjed! Damn ninja and their shuriken threads.

 

[Felon]

A fighting dagger and a throwing dagger are decidely different things.

What they are calling Shruiken is, for all intents and purposes, a throwing dagger, and would do a better job at being thrown for damage than a fighting dagger.

*shrug* I have no problems with it.

Stop thinking of shruiken as little round things, or stars, and look at the ranges they actually came in.

The OP wasn't thinking of them in any sense but a mechanical one. He explained (pretty clearly IMO) that their game statistics were not very superior as thrown weapons go.