Sorry, this might take a few lines to explain.
One thing never made much sense to me. It's been bugging me and no matter how hard I worked my brain, I never came to a satisfying conclusion.
I can buy into the whole "both Intelligence and Wisdom factor into your Lore Score"-kind of thing and that bards just identify everything at a glance, because Lore is basically part of their profession, since it plays into the songs. Cursed Items (often 100) and Protection Scrolls (85, iirc) are apparently up there with the hardest items to recognize. Hmmm... Ordinary stuff like darts + 1 takes almost no Lore to recognize, since it does not have a backstory. Okay, I can believe all that.
But how, just how, does it make sense that the equipment of the great hero Balduran takes 100 to be recognized?? And Drizzts Scimitars take a whopping 80? Meanwhile, a weapon with a +2 enchantment and a legacy that is minuscule in comparison takes half the score.
There seems to be a general trend (with odd exceptions) that indicates the more famous an item should be, the harder it is to recognize it. If anyone has a plausible explanation for this, please enlighten me.
Since I never was more than a PC Gamer when it came to DnD there might be a Pen and Paper-reason for this that I am unaware of. I'll send a digital Cookie to whomever convinces me of their theory.
One thing never made much sense to me. It's been bugging me and no matter how hard I worked my brain, I never came to a satisfying conclusion.
I can buy into the whole "both Intelligence and Wisdom factor into your Lore Score"-kind of thing and that bards just identify everything at a glance, because Lore is basically part of their profession, since it plays into the songs. Cursed Items (often 100) and Protection Scrolls (85, iirc) are apparently up there with the hardest items to recognize. Hmmm... Ordinary stuff like darts + 1 takes almost no Lore to recognize, since it does not have a backstory. Okay, I can believe all that.
But how, just how, does it make sense that the equipment of the great hero Balduran takes 100 to be recognized?? And Drizzts Scimitars take a whopping 80? Meanwhile, a weapon with a +2 enchantment and a legacy that is minuscule in comparison takes half the score.
There seems to be a general trend (with odd exceptions) that indicates the more famous an item should be, the harder it is to recognize it. If anyone has a plausible explanation for this, please enlighten me.
Since I never was more than a PC Gamer when it came to DnD there might be a Pen and Paper-reason for this that I am unaware of. I'll send a digital Cookie to whomever convinces me of their theory.