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Evaluating Goods (Bureaucracy)

Although the Bureaucracy Ability largely concerns itself with managing governments bureaus, businesses, criminal syndicates and other organizations, it also measures a character's overall familiarity with the values of assorted merchandise. The Resources system in Exalted deliberately abstracts prices, with each greater dot encompassing a progressively wider span than those below. Therefore, the actual cost of one Resources 4 item might be as much as Resources 3 more than another Resources 4 item. Because of this increasing abstraction, characters can determine the overall Resources rating of an item with a successful (Intelligence + Bureaucracy) roll at standard difficulty. Yet knowing the exact fair market value of an item in its current condition raises the difficulty to the object's Resources value. Besides any narrative benefits, knowing the exact value of something makes haggling easier, providing one extra success if the other party is honest, and three extra successes if the other party attempts to rip the character off. For more details, see 174 (???not relevant). Pricing goods may be achieved instantly for most smaller products, though large quantities that waver with (or change) the local economy might require hours or even days of research.