What are the rules for identifying alchemical items?

[glass]

As the thread title says.

I am sure there must be some, but I cannot find them for the life of me. Presumably it works similarly to identifying magic items, but it is obviously not an identify magic activity per se, so what is it?

[beowulf99]

Identify Alchemy Exploration Activity

It's not the easiest to find, but it is there.

[glass]

beowulf99 wrote:

Identify Alchemy Exploration Activity

It's not the easiest to find, but it is there.

Thank you for linking that.

AoN has this annoying thing where it shows you all the bits of info about an activity except the most critical piece: Which skill(s) you can use. Fortunately, it does give the page number so I was able to find out by consulting my hard-copy CRB.

For the record, it appears to be Crafting only. I guess the reason I did not find it before is I was expecting it to be one of those multi-skill activities like Identify Magic, but it isn't.

Thanks again.

[Luke Styer]

glass wrote:

AoN has this annoying thing where it shows you all the bits of info about an activity except the most critical piece:

I don’t think that’s a AoN issue. I think it’s a function of the incredibly poorly organized Core Rulebook. Pathfinder 2E is, by a decent margin, my all-time favorite RPG, but it’s an organizational nightmare. AoN is a labor of love, and if anything, improves on the usability of the Core Rulebook through its hyperlinks.

Not sure I’m adding much here, just taking a stand for the AoN.

[glass]

Luke Styer wrote:

Not sure I’m adding much here, just taking a stand for the AoN.

Don't get me wrong, I love AoN too. It is an amazing resource!

And I definitely agree that the CRB has organisational issues - my personal bugbear is the sheer number of times I have run across the phrases akin to "the GM will set the DC" which is profoundly unhelpful when you are the GM and are looking for info on how to do just that!

In this case though, the CRB actually comes out ahead. It is actually in the index. Which surprised me - I wasn't expecting it to be much help which is why I didn't look there before (and it is under I, whereas I would have expected it to be under A). Although it does not say under the Activity entry itself what skill it uses it does not need to because it is under the heading of Crafting Trained Actions.