The Drop

Those all sound like good options, although the 50 turn cooldown sounds a little bit excessive. For the spell option, it would make sense for it cost a certain % of whatever health stat it affects, instead of a fixed value, so that there's less of a chance of making it too easy. Regardless of the option, once an item is identified, if you happen to find it again, it should be already identified (I'm thinking Nethack here).

Yeah, items definitely stay identified after being reveal the first time. The only problem is that in some cases the first time may be the only time!

Fifty turns sounds like a lot, but remember that every step counts as a turn, so you'll probably burn through a few hundred just exploring a single floor. The idea of having a long cooldown is to prevent abusing on-the-fly identifying in the middle of combat, so there is some risk involved in carrying unknown stuff.

Thanks for your quick responses!

Hm...perhaps the favor could be used in the safe floor to buy groups of items as identified, like all plants identified for a high cost.

Although that's not an on the fly option, hrm...perhaps as a trade off, while trying to identify and item your stealth goes down? Like you can click it to have it studied right away, but your stealth goes down greatly for several turns, or maybe your stealth is down while you study it. Although people can still just run around an empty floor after clearing out the enemies, but I suppose that makes sense from a narrative stand-point.

In terms of justifying favor usage, all favor is from pieces of the dead enemies, correct? Parts of their body that you can sell? Perhaps...experimenting with those pieces is what tells you about the items properties, destroying the item in the process. Or maybe testing the item on a newly dead corpse can tell you about it?

I feel like I should have some better idea or thoughts, but I'm way too tired at the moment. (And still need to catch up on the RP for that matter, urg)

Edit: Something else to consider is just...not having it as an option. I mean the whole point of this is to explore and experiment anyway. Does some of this stay between playthroughs either way?

An alternative to turns passing that I considered and forgot to mention before is to use enemies as a counter instead. So, choose an item to study, fight 5 enemies, and then the item is studied. This means a finite number of identifications could be made per floor.

I really like the idea of using parts of defeated enemies as a justification for Favor, and I just might have to steal it.

What kind of penalty would you have to tasting and touching? Even if you can only do it once, it sounds like an instant way to identify any item with almost no drawback. That's my main concern.

I don't mind if you steal that idea for justifying favor at all. Speaking of using parts of defeated enemies...it's kind of funny that you are carrying all of the parts for favor you want despite only having 8 slots for inventory. xD

Already got one of him, in the form of a price gouging lizardman! Can't take him with you, though.

If you need some emergency healing in the middle of combat, it's potentially a gamble to use an unidentified item that could hurt you instead. Plus, there are plenty of items that will have properties that you can use against enemies, so it's not entirely about healing.

Also, glad to hear from you again so soon!

I definitely like the idea of it costing more favor each time. It makes it clear that it's still better to experiment but still gives an option to learn the item's properties if you want.

Buuuuut...another thought is that you only find the item once, right? But...how will you know if it's the only time you find the item? By the time you realize you don't find the item again it's kind of too late. Or even know if it's something worth studying?