Inspect

Inspect is a natural perception skill, meaning all characters start with this skill and it does not have to be selected during character creation. Inspect represents your ability to size something up and get a rough estimate of its properties at a glance. It can tell you all manner of things -- how tall a person is, how lethal a fall might be, how old someone is, how heavy an object you want to pick up may be -- and so forth. Consider it the skill you call on when guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar.

Usage                       What it does
inspect <target>            Every trait you can perceive about it
inspect <target> <aspect>   Just one trait, e.g. "inspect chest mass"
inspect here                The room: how deadly a fall would be

Like appraise, inspect has a random offset that fades away as you get better. Unlike appraise, at low skill levels you only get rough descriptors -- 'he is heavy' -- that become more specific -- 'he weighs about 80kg' -- to exact -- 'he weighs 82kg' -- as you maximize this skill.

As with appraise, the same target cannot be inspected more than once per five minutes to prevent statistical sampling of true values.

Inspect is governed by wisdom (primary) and intelligence (secondary).