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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rya.Reisender" data-source="post: 6766132" data-attributes="member: 6801585">Well, unless you want to overwork yourself as DM by doing all your player's character sheets, players are the ones who keep track of their items, so if they tell me they got a scroll of fireball, I have to assume they really have one. If they find a scroll of charm person, but the NPC tells them it's a scroll of fireball, then they would note down "scroll of fireball" on their character sheet. That means if they are going to use it, which can very well be one year later, I still need to remember that that scroll of fireball is actually a scroll of charm person. If that was only one magic item that wouldn't be so much of a problem, but if your PCs tend to always ask the defeated NPCs what their magic item stuff is before finishing them off (like my players do), then they start to accumulate a large amount of magic items they don't bother identifying themselves eventually.It also makes communication with my players hard. Like if they have multiple scrolls and want to use one of them, how do I communicate with them which one of them they want to use?Player: "I use a scroll of fireball."DM: "Which one?"Player: "I don't know!? Does it matter? One of the two in my inventory."DM: "Sorry I need that to be more precise, where did you get it from?" *reads through notes to figure out what those scrolls really are and where he got them from*Player: "Can't remember anymore."DM: "Okay, then throw a coin."With meta-information it's much easier but also puts a lot of responsibility on the players to avoid metagaming:Player: "I use the scroll of charm that I think is a scroll of fireball at the skeleton in the center."DM: "You use the scroll but for reasons unknown to you, the spell fails."</blockquote>

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