Clicking on a location brings up a dialogue box in which you type your text. There is a journal that automatically chronicles your adventures including the quests you have agreed to accomplish and the major milestones in the story. The new journal and ability to annotate maps make record keeping easier and more comprehensive than before. As well, each character has a Lore attribute based on wisdom, intelligence, race, class, and experience that can be used to identify items. Bards in particular have higher Lore skills than other classes.
Unidentified items have a blue shading over their icons.
Characters with infravision see everything in shades of red, not just heat sources. Moving a character with infravision into a dark area automatically turns infravision on. It is possible to select an option so that if any character in the selected group has infravision, such a view is used on the screen, instead of having to select the actual character with infravision. We felt that adding complexity to the monetary system would not add to the gaming experience. Only so many items fit in my inventory spaces.