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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1570824" data-attributes="member: 16936">We try to make it useful and to use it.But most of the time we give up on it, saying things like "oh, just make one Appraise check for all of this stuff" and then just giving the correct price for everything right off the bat if the final check result sounds reasonable enough.  And I can't think of a single time that any NPC has ever been called upon to make an Appraise check when buying something from us, so I guess it's fair.Really, I figure we just don't care enough about the verisimilitude of appraising every gem and piece of art we acquire to spend the time it takes to handle each piece with an individual roll and careful bookkeeping from both the players and the GM to keep track of both what an object is worth and what a PC thinks it might be worth.  It slows everything down, makes the players who aren't part of the Appraising process lose interest in the game, and doesn't add enough fun to be something that any of us feel strongly enough about to actually take the time to do.Generally, asking for an Appraise check is done for more or less the same reasons that we'd ask for an obscure Knowledge check...it's a way of making someone who's spent points improving a seldom-used or barely-useful skill feel like the investment might not have been entirely wasted.--in other words, we use it for passing out clues, not for pricing lootryan</blockquote>