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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1574810" data-attributes="member: 9646">I agree with that point. Appraise is badly done (IMO) and almost never used.1) Gaming habits: Generally, you find treasure at the end of gaming session, when DM is tired, and many players are in a hurry to leave because it's late. As such, no use, ever, of the Appraise skill. Things generally go like that: you find 500 gp (not 468 or what not, as foes, unlike PCs, are extremely careful to only keep neat numbers of gold pieces, even ogres, trolls, goblins, that you would think do not care about such things); a 150 gp ruby; a 300 gp necklace; etc. Then, the treasure "magically" turns into an amount of gold pieces ready to be spend, usually without having made any role play or d20 roll. But it is our game!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> 2) Economics in the Game: I think that practically nobody realizes that the only thing that is worth 500 gp, is a sack containing 500 gp. Saying that a jade statue of a centaur costs 500 gp is a nonsense. All you can say, is that in some places you could sell it for, maybe, up to 500 gp to a noble. However, since many nobles only earn 150 gp a month, you will have to be lucky before finding one willing to spend 500 gp on this useless item. Furthermore, while elves would be probably willing to pay around 500 gp for it, dwarves would only pay up to 100 gp for that, and half-orcs are not dumb enough to give even a copper for such useless junk. Well, I think it would require the Profession - Merchant skill, to know where and to whom to sell loot; while Appraise can be used to know the relative worth of things when you know where and to whom to sell the stuff.</blockquote>

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