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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amwest" data-source="post: 2340808" data-attributes="member: 15558">Appraise and CraftI thought more about how appraise should work, and came up with the following... also some thoughts on Craft...APPRAISEI think Appraise should have set DCs for different valued items.For example:DC 10 <10 GPDC 15 <100 GPDC 20 <1000 GPDC 25 <10,000 GPDC 30 <100,000 GPI'd have to look at the average values for treasure found atdifferent levels to make sure that someone maxing the appraise skillwas able to identify most level appropriate treasure, but I thinkthis is pretty close to correct. (You can't take 20 on Appraise.)I think following other skills for failure consequences would begood. Failure would mean you are unsure of its value. Failure bymore than 5 would lead to concluding that it is worth some setdifference, like 50% or 10% of its actual value.Since players could take 10 for most items they find, this wouldserve to make low-level (uninteresting) treasure easily andcomfortably identified when discovered. But, when the party findshigher value treasures, a little time spent examining to them couldcome into play. This seems like a good balance.CRAFTThe crafting system is also abysmal, it takes pretty much forever tocraft anything of use. I realize this was done to keep a consistentgame economy with Profession and Perform skills, but I think fun andefficicency have been sacrificed for an overly heavy dose of realism.With that in mind, the Magic Item crafting feats seem to work verywell. The solution I have been using in my campaigns is to allow aplayer, with a successful craft check, to make 100 GP worth ofproduction per week. This allows for creation of standard-valueitems on a plausible time scale.</blockquote>

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