#picking pockets

[oldschoolfrp]

Creeping realism and sloshing chamber pots (Victoria Poyser, Game Master’s Guide for Sanctuary, from the Thieves’ World box set, Chaosium, 1981)

[onyxbird]

@vickyvicarious We've talked about how Eliot "picks locks" (or, you know, apparent doesn't), but look at this lovely example of how Eliot Spencer lifts a wallet. 😂 Why go to the trouble of fishing something out of a target's pocket when you can get the blowhard to drop it right into your hands folded magazine?

[oldschoolfrp]

Picking Pockets tables from AD&D Forgotten Realms City System, by Jeff Grubb with Ed Greenwood, TSR, 1988.

This short version is useful during play.  The longer version that follows fills 5-1/2 pages with 11 tables and 14 subtables of excessive details that might provide some inspiration for generating NPCs before a session:

     Table B: Garments, FIne 

          Subtable 7: Possible fabrics for fine garments

               Camlet: Made from camel’s hair; heavy and expensive

[oldschoolfrp]

The Thieves’ Guild and the Black Hand vie for control of the back alleys in the Free City of Haven (Hannah M G Shapero, Haven: Secrets of the Labyrinth, Gamelords, 1983)

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Letcher Given Six Months,” Toronto Star. July 5, 1916. Page 14. ---- Said His Name Was Bailey, But Mother Had Written ---- Mike Letcher, alias Joe Leman, alias W. B. Bailey, was sentenced to six months in the Ontario Reformatory by Judge Winchester in the Criminal Court to-day. ‘Have you a new name to-day?’ inquired Judge Winchester. ‘My name is Bailey,’ was the reply. ‘But I have a letter from a Mrs. Letcher in Chicago,’ said the judge, ‘who says you are her son. She says you are a good boy, and asks leniency. But when you were eight years old you went wrong.’

Letcher was apprehended by Chief of Police Grasett on an Avenue Road car in May while picking the pocket of James J. Steele of $20. He has a long criminal record, and has done time in many of the Southern States prisons. He accredits his downfall to the use of morphine.

[thecautiousthief]

This usually helps when I can't sleep.

[sighs]

[fohts]

Picking pockets

Rule #1: Only do this, if you have a level 90+ sneak skill. No exceptions. You are detected a lot easier (as compared to other Bethesda games such as Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas). One of the more secure ways to pick somebodies pocket, is to use a stealth field generating item (IE a stealth boy/Chinese stealth armor). These items will cloak you in invisibility allowing you to move faster while crouched without being detected. Picking pockets will lower your karma so be wary.

Side Note: You can also plant clothes on people which can possibly alter the NPC's apparel or even a landmine or grenade to explode your unsuspecting victim.