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Message: <blockquote data-quote="War Golem" data-source="post: 403393" data-attributes="member: 142">I agree for the most part. IMC, Identify is as per the book, with the following alterations:Identify – Casting time is 10 minutes per item studied. May only be cast 1/day. Reveals all non-special functions of a magic item. Exactly what qualifies as special or non-special is DM’s discretion. Enhancement bonuses and most standard powers are usually considered standard; powers that only activate under special circumstances may be considered non-standard. This spell will indicate if a command word is necessary to use the item, but will never reveal what the command word is.Command words I prefer the PCs to determine by trial and error. The standard guideline is that the command word will, most of the time, be related to the item function - so the command word for a Wand of Lightning Bolts might be 'fry' or 'sizzle.' This gives the PCs a lot of room for trial and error, while giving them some reasonable parameters within which to experiment.A successful bardic knowledge check or legend lore spell will often reveal a command word, though.The reason I reduced the casting time was that I, as DM, really don't like the PCs essentially having to burn a day (8 hours) to find out what the stuff they just found does when they are in the middle of an adventure. The 10 minutes per item seemed like a good middle ground - can keep the pace of the adventure moving, but using the spell may be poor strategic move if the PCs are operating under a time crunch (and usually, mine seem to feel like they are, whether it's the case or not).Cheers,-War Golem</blockquote>

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