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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 1641478" data-attributes="member: 3051">IMC we use something similar.  Based on my experiences, though, I'd make some suggestions:STEPS 1 & 2> While making the prices adjustable is all well and good, it's useful to have a rough guideline to fall back on.IMC, to find the Asking Price percentage, take the customer's CHA (plus or minus up to 2 for race, plus or minus 1 for speaking the language, plus or minus up to 2 depending on class/affiliation), and divide that into a given value.  For the "final" price, I use 250%; for the initial offer use 400 or 500%, but this value is what he'll be willing to settle on.  So, a CHA of 10 gives a value of 25%.  Round to the nearest 5% in the case of fractions.If your effective CHA after all the race/language/class modifiers is less than 5, the merchant either won't sell at all, or will insist on an exorbitant price (at least double its value) regardless of haggling.When selling something to a store, the merchant will offer you 100% minus this value (75%, in this case); when buying something from a store, the merchant will demand 100% plus this value (125%).  Remember, these are the values you'll settle on after the basic, pro-forma haggling (in some cultures it's traditional to REALLY mark up the price, and then customers only offer a tiny fraction of that; neither side expects the haggling to end there, so no one is offended by the huge difference); if you want to REALLY push your luck there's still the haggling in step 4.You can allow other skills to be used here to increase the effective CHA.  A Disguise check, for instance, to make you look like a wealthy guild-affiliated merchant instead of a common soldier.STEP 4> You need more options for haggling; Diplomacy is nice for the "respectable" stores, but there can be other ways to do things.1> Use either a Bluff check or an Appraise check of your own, opposing the merchant's Appraise roll on the item, to convince him it's worth a different value than he first thought.2> Use Intimidation, to convince him that the only way he'll keep his limbs is to sell at your price.3> Use a Knowledge, Craft, or Profession check dealing with the item in question.  If you're familiar with making the item, you can identify its flaws, estimate its true value better, and so on.  "You know, I'd love to buy your boat, but I can see the hull is slightly warping on this side... tell you what, I'll buy it for 10% less, because I'm going to have to repair this."Anyway, point is, you can tie in practically ALL of the Rogue skills to this process.</blockquote>

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