Originally Posted by
icefractal
Six hours of "processing" seems like a lot. Besides identification, what does this processing involve, and which parts of it take the longest?
If it's primarily identification, one way to streamline that would be to pre-roll those skills for each item when initially generating the loot. You can probably streamline this with a spreadsheet.
So for example, instead of a back-and-forth for each item, you can just say:
"Here are the items you were able to identify" *document with info already listed*
"And there were some you couldn't: a silver dagger with draconic inscriptions, a clay bowl which glows faintly, and a large rusted helmet."
Also, this is assuming that item-identification and having sometimes-unknown items is fun for you and the group. If not, then just skip the entire thing and give people the full info.