Talent: Haggle

House Rule: Haggle and Availability
All items in the Player's Guide have a listed availability: Everyday, Average, Unusual, Rare, or Very Rare. Everyday items are always available. Average and unusual items may or may not be easily available for purchase: there is a 70% chance for average items, and a 40% chance for unusual items.

If that chance fails, or if you are looking for Rare or Very Rare items, you will need to Haggle (a default Charisma skill) versus a Difficulty Number of 5. Average items can be found with 1 success, unusual items with 2, rare items with 3, and very rare items with 4 successes. If you are willing to pay more for an item, you gain one free success for each +50% of the item's value you commit to paying. A professional buyer or merchant may be hired to locate items for you, granting a +2 to your roll per 20 silver spent.

A character with ranks in Haggle can also used it for the more traditional purpose of haggling over price. Merchants have a standard Haggle step of 9, and a Social Defense of 10. They have two ranks of Haggle, and will therefore make two rolls against PCs who haggle with them; PCs may make a number of rolls equal to their ranks in Haggle. (Note that rolling only continues after a success, regardless of ranks. A failure brings a stop to that side's haggling.)

Each success on a haggle roll from either side moves the price 5% in their favor (as per the book), to a maximum of 50%/150%.

Travar is known as the Merchant City, and any character who originates from Travar should invest in at least one rank of Haggle to accurately reflect their background.