Bard's Tale 3: Thief of Fate -- Identify Items?

[portia_EH]

I have more than a handful of items that are lists either with '?' icone
preceding them or just listed as 'weapon' or 'armor' ... I'm running out of
room carrying all this crap around --

How do I actually identify items in my inventory?

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[portia_EH]

Turns out that your 'Rogue' of all people has the 'identify' item skill.
There is no easy way to access the identify skill, or even to recognize its
existence, w/o burying yourself into the rogue's inventory screen.

I've found you have 'one' chance to identify an item ... if you can't
identify it, you have to throw it away because you'll never know what it is
(or you just load your game and try again).

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[Brandon Wallace]

Hmm....have you tried the merchants? I could have sworn they
could ID for a price (maybe you had to sell it to them)

Hello, "portia_EH" !
You wrote:

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[portia_EH]

Brandon Wallace <bm...@criterion.com> wrote in message
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> Hmm....have you tried the merchants? I could have sworn they
> could ID for a price (maybe you had to sell it to them)
>

Huh? I'm presently in Aboria (after slaying Brilhasti ap'Tarj) and I've
still yet to see any merchants. Since I've played long enought to raise two
Archmages, create a Chronomancer, and have a Hunter with Critical Hit(93)
... I don't expect to be finding any merchants soon.

Are there indeed shops later in the game? I'd love to be able to
sell/identify my items! I've only come across taverns, magic temples, and
training locations (aside from your occasional plot pivots like the King of
Aboria in his palace).

[rak...@mindspring.com]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:18:55 -0700, "portia_EH"
<no2spam~ehou...@zipperint.com> wrote:

>Brandon Wallace <bm...@criterion.com> wrote in message
>news:B701A...@criterion.com...
>
>> Hmm....have you tried the merchants? I could have sworn they
>> could ID for a price (maybe you had to sell it to them)
>>
>
>Huh? I'm presently in Aboria (after slaying Brilhasti ap'Tarj) and I've
>still yet to see any merchants. Since I've played long enought to raise two
>Archmages, create a Chronomancer, and have a Hunter with Critical Hit(93)
>... I don't expect to be finding any merchants soon.
>
>Are there indeed shops later in the game? I'd love to be able to
>sell/identify my items! I've only come across taverns, magic temples, and
>training locations (aside from your occasional plot pivots like the King of
>Aboria in his palace).

Isn't there an identify spell in the game?

I tragically can't remember, but I seem to recall it.

Just me.

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[portia_EH]

<rak...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>
> Isn't there an identify spell in the game?
>
> I tragically can't remember, but I seem to recall it.
>

Thus far I've discovered two ways of identifying items:

1) Have your Rogue character select the item in his inventory and choose
'Identify' ... If this fails, you're screwed and you'll never be able to
identify that item with the same character again.

2) The Chronomancer has a Level 5 spell called WHAT, that will ineed
identify items. My time mage only has the first level spells available to
her at the moment, so I don't know if it's failable like the Rogue's
identify (maybe you can only try once). I'm hoping it works like TrapZap
and is 100% on whatever you target! :)