Originally Posted by
JohnQPublic
Identification does nothing?
During our game last night I dropped an unidentified item into the party inventory. It showed up as 'Unidentified Item' because it didn't have anything in the field for Non-ID Name. So far so good.
Then one of my players said, 'Oh, it's something to do with hiding or searching.'.
I said 'What? Why do you think that?' and he said, 'because it describes the item on the 'Other' tab.'
I've now checked several items. It appears that the descriptive text on the 'Other' tab is completely available at all times regardless of the id/non-id state of the item. This can't be right.