> Illusionary) sounds magical, which might be a problem in the
>case of some items like...a Skull Sword, for example.
>
>I understand your gut says an identify is too much for some
>items, but I'd like to know why. What is the problem with
>letting anyone id any item? I thought about it a little and
>decided the effort was worth some reward, but I don't know
>what you know about this game.

Just throwing ideas, how 'bout instead of (Illusionary), you just get some sort of echo that the (armor/weapon/scroll/item) is somehow broken, ruined, or destroyed as the mob dies?

On the plus side, it's actually semi-RP'd as to what's happening.
On the semi-pro, semi-con side, you'd never know if big-bad-mob ACTUALLY has the armor, or if you're about to spend the next 20min killing some badass mob for nothing. I actually kinda like that idea, but I'm known to be evil and masochistic.
On the downside, we'd probably have to explain to every new player why they can never manage to actually GET the cool item from the nasty mob they've just killed 20 times over.