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<blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 1356629" data-attributes="member: 103">My group in RttToEE has a psion with inkling.&nbsp; We have been able to put that cantrip-like effect to very good use.&nbsp; (I know there was a 2E priest version that did much the same thing, but I am not sure about 3.X clerics.)Basically, one time our party was near death (well, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, there have been many times - this was one particular time).&nbsp; Our cleric was out for the count and maybe one of the party members was conscious with more than 1 hit point.&nbsp; The psion used inkling to glean whether any of the potions would be helpful (1 inkling per potion) and got a yes for several of them and a no for the rest.&nbsp; Given our situation - the psion figured what the hey, and force fed some of the potions to the uncscious priest.&nbsp; As luck would have it, they were healing potions.&nbsp; The ambush that crushed us before the next morning probably would have killed us but for those potions.&nbsp; Moreover, we later found out some of the potions were in fact poisons - so it was good thing we did not haphazardly down all of them.Things like inlkling, are very useful if the circumstances are right.&nbsp; Certainly, they are not optimized, but in our case it was definitely a poor man's method of identifying them.&nbsp; OTOH - my character still has a necklace, ring, and a few other things he have yet to serve any even remotely useful purpose other than ornamentation.I'll tell you this, the next time I play a game with an arcane caster above 1st level, I will definitely be buying a wand of identify (with fewer than max charges).&nbsp; The cost is definitely worth it, if for no other reason than the time savings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gaiden, post: 1356629, member: 103"] My group in RttToEE has a psion with inkling. We have been able to put that cantrip-like effect to very good use. (I know there was a 2E priest version that did much the same thing, but I am not sure about 3.X clerics.) Basically, one time our party was near death (well, :), there have been many times - this was one particular time). Our cleric was out for the count and maybe one of the party members was conscious with more than 1 hit point. The psion used inkling to glean whether any of the potions would be helpful (1 inkling per potion) and got a yes for several of them and a no for the rest. Given our situation - the psion figured what the hey, and force fed some of the potions to the uncscious priest. As luck would have it, they were healing potions. The ambush that crushed us before the next morning probably would have killed us but for those potions. Moreover, we later found out some of the potions were in fact poisons - so it was good thing we did not haphazardly down all of them. Things like inlkling, are very useful if the circumstances are right. Certainly, they are not optimized, but in our case it was definitely a poor man's method of identifying them. OTOH - my character still has a necklace, ring, and a few other things he have yet to serve any even remotely useful purpose other than ornamentation. I'll tell you this, the next time I play a game with an arcane caster above 1st level, I will definitely be buying a wand of identify (with fewer than max charges). The cost is definitely worth it, if for no other reason than the time savings. [/QUOTE]

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