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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 540726" data-attributes="member: 1465">Well, I guess that a DM may completely hide treasures' values and let the players use Appraise to guess each item's price (or overall treasure value): but there's going to be very very many dicerolls, and for a small advantage on the long term.In all the games I have played, everyone can simply open the PHB (or DMG if he has it) and read the correct price. Appraise was used only for occasional exotic/unknown items (that is, not in the corebooks) on sale, but guessing the right value doesn't necessary mean you make a merchant grant you a discount (but it may suggest you to try a Diplomacy check to get it). Another occasion was a quick guess on which were a treasure's most valuable items when the party was not able to carry everything out of the dungeon.Still I have seen very few Appraise checks until now. But if your DM makes Appraise useful, tell he's definitely a good DM <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 540726, member: 1465"] Well, I guess that a DM may completely hide treasures' values and let the players use Appraise to guess each item's price (or overall treasure value): but there's going to be very very many dicerolls, and for a small advantage on the long term. In all the games I have played, everyone can simply open the PHB (or DMG if he has it) and read the correct price. Appraise was used only for occasional exotic/unknown items (that is, not in the corebooks) on sale, but guessing the right value doesn't necessary mean you make a merchant grant you a discount (but it may suggest you to try a Diplomacy check to get it). Another occasion was a quick guess on which were a treasure's most valuable items when the party was not able to carry everything out of the dungeon. Still I have seen very few Appraise checks until now. But if your DM makes Appraise useful, tell he's definitely a good DM :) [/QUOTE]

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