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Originally written by Thuryl:

Item Lore isn't very reliable; I never bother to get any. You're better off finding a sage to identify your items for you; most towns have one.

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Originally written by Thuryl:

Item Lore isn't very reliable; I never bother to get any. You're better off finding a sage to identify your items for you; most towns have one.

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Originally written by Sturg:

Yeah, and also, if there's no monsters to fight in the immediate area, you can blow some spell points casting Identify.

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Originally written by Thahd Lemonade:

The problem is that Item Lore is so expensive, in gold but mainly in skill points. At FOUR skill points per point of Item Lore, it's easily the game's worst value. (Well, maybe it's better than buying Health directly.) Item Lore is a relatively small convenience, for which you are willing to give up 2 points of Edged Weapons, or 1 1/3 points of Intelligence? Or most of a point in Luck or Priest Spells? Absurd.

I have sometimes edited 10 points into my singleton games, just to make monster drops less than totally useless.

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Originally written by How:

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Originally written by Thahd Lemonade:

The problem is that Item Lore is so expensive, in gold but mainly in skill points. At FOUR skill points per point of Item Lore, it's easily the game's worst value. (Well, maybe it's better than buying Health directly.) Item Lore is a relatively small convenience, for which you are willing to give up 2 points of Edged Weapons, or 1 1/3 points of Intelligence? Or most of a point in Luck or Priest Spells? Absurd.

I have sometimes edited 10 points into my singleton games, just to make monster drops less than totally useless.

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I just got the registered copy. I raised everyone's Item Lore to 8 as a test and still, several items are not being identified by the party. Very bizarre. It would seem that the stat is useless if it doesn't work with a total party lore of 48. And, I'm talking about low level items still showing up with a ?

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Those items are probably cursed. It usually takes much higher levels of Item Lore to identify cursed items than to identify normal, or slightly blessed ones.

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Originally written by Randomizer:

Item lore doesn't work too well in a beginning party. The worst is finding that an items value is below the identification cost. You can use save, try, remove, and reload to find out if the items are cursed.

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Originally written by the Mystic:

and being kind of the "old man" around here (at least in terms of age--check my profile to see what I mean)

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You're still 16 years younger than me.

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Originally written by Zeviz:

The only other thing I can think of is that, if I remember correctly, Item Lore is checked when the item is generated. So increasing it afterwards will have no effect on the items already in your inventory. (I don't remember whether and how Item Lore affects the items that are already in the room before you kill anything.)

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Originally written by Pope John XX:

Perhaps dropping and then picking up the items would work?

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Originally written by Randomizer:

You're still 16 years younger than me.

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Nioca, are you paying attention? The next time you create an age poll, be sure to break up the adult categories into very small sections. The adults want bragging rights!

Dikiyoba means no offense or disrespect, of course.

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