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How about a Merchant Mage that can identify thigns for a price?
Just a suggestion for when you can't find a Mage to do it..

I've thought a lot about suggesting this one myself, but then I made a wizard...

Most especially when you start out as a wizard, component collecting and spell training can be rather difficult as many of the more important ones cost coin that young wizards (at least in my experience) just don't have. Identification was not a bad source of income back then--a few gold here, a platinum there, really adds up. And to add something like this would take that away completely. I'm not sure it would matter that much in the long run, but starting out, casters need all the money they can get.

Just my ten cents. Coming from my other characters, I'd love to see this happen, but making a wizard helped me see the value in it.

P.S., Wizard's aren't the only ones able to identify. Hope that helps a bit.

Ed. for clarification

Me personally...I would much rather see the RP that comes from hunting down someone that can do this for you ICly than having a merchant do it.

Algon wrote:Me personally...I would much rather see the RP that comes from hunting down someone that can do this for you ICly than having a merchant do it.

This is my opinion on it as well.

For the sake of exploring every side of the argument.

Its kind of part of dnd to search out npcs for services that you need per population center. A metropolis like waterdeep would have NPCs that sell spells and services like that. I don't really see any massive amount of rp in a char walking up, handing another an item and a spell cast, which is what happens most of the time.

Having played a wizard as my main character, I can tell you that making money from this at low level is a hit and miss kind of occupation and if your really depending on it in any measure your better off asking IC where to kill rich dummies for similar if not more coin.

I don't think my alternative suggestion to make scribing, brewing and wand making relatively low level as in dnd is all that popular but it would fix alot of money concerns when starting out since in the game currently, priests and rogues can use wizard made items.

The lack of sellers for an identify spell (or NPCs who provide that service) is an intentional omission designed to force players to interact. As you said, it is not world-changing role-play perhaps, but it is player-to-player interaction.

Eh, thats fair enough