Pick Pocket

The Skill of Picking pockets allows the character to add and remove items from the inventory of another person. Pick Pocket level is dependent upon Dexterity(DX).

Training

• Pick Pocket Apprentice: The character is ONLY caught on a critical failure
  • Trainer: Other thieves if the player has joined The Thieves Underground
  • Trainer: Vollinger in Dernholm if he has never been a follower
  • Trainer: Adam Maxwell in Caladon

• Pick Pocket Expert: The item size penalty is halved
  • Trainer: Poone in Tarant
  • Trainer: Mr. Black in Tarant for Underground members
  • Trainer: Mr. Razzia in Caladon for Underground members

• Pick Pocket Master: The character cannot be caught when planting an item
  • Trainer: Sammie White in Tarant
  • Quest: Run Around Tarant in Your Underwear

Uses

• Removing from a Mark's inventory:
  • To acquire rare, unique, or expensive items for one's personal use
  • To get keys for locked items
  • To take documents, or items needed for a quest
  • To directly disarm a Mark, or indirectly by confiscating ammunition for their weapon

• Planting items on a Mark
  • To frame them with incriminating evidence of a crime
  • To passively incapacitate them, usually with a Hexed item
  • To give them an inferior weapon compared to their bare-handed combat speed and damage

Modifiers to Pick Pocket

• Items
  • In general, Tech Gloves and Gauntlets remove between -1/20 and -4/20 while equipped
  • Light-fingered gauntlets gives +1/20 magical, and negates the penalty for techs
  • Magnus' Gauntlets negates the penalty for techs
  • Oiled Thieves Leather gives +1/20

• Blessings
  • Bolo gives +4/20
  • Velorien gives +12/20 (Overrides Bolo's Blessing)

• Races
  • None

• Backgrounds
  • Feral Child gives +1/20
  • Halfling Orphan gives +2/20

Mechanics

• Interacting with a Mark is similar to trading with a Follower or looting a corpse
• Gold can be taken at 100 pieces per attempt
• Other Stackable Items like Ammunition are taken at 20 units per attempt
• Smaller items are easier to transfer than larger items
• Unequipped items are easier to remove than equipped items
• Planted items always go into a Mark's inventory, though they may self-equip them
• If the Mark is "unaware" due to the player using Prowling, then the chance of success increases
• The attempt is calculated by comparing the Pick Pocket level to the item's size and location (an item in a mark's inventory is much easier to Pick Pocket then if the same item is equipped)
  • If the attempt fails, then the Mark makes a Perception check
  • If the Mark's check succeeds, then the player is caught and the Mark becomes hostile
  • If the attempt critically fails, then the player is always caught
  • If the attempt succeeds, then the item or units are transferred

Notes

• Pick Pocketing Good players can cause a loss of alignment, and a rebuke from some good followers
• Players with little or no Pick Pocket skill can use a Fate Point to take any item with 100% success
• Planting has limited usefulness, as most NPCs will voluntarily pick up items dropped next to them
• Some NPCs may attempt to pick pocket the player
  • if they get caught then they will immediately become hostile to the player
  • This can become an issue if guards are nearby, as they will always side with the NPC