#pickpocketing

[elderscrollsconfessions]

Confession: I hate pickpocketing. I hate that there is always a 10% chance to fail no matter what I do. Nothing else in Skyrim is gated like this it's JUST pickpocketing.

[stiwfssr]

pocket cheese

[godahlpresentslizziesmithson]

my Vita seems like it's getting ready to finally die after more than a decade of near constant use--i guess it's time to buy a steam deck, I understand you can run ps2 emulators on it so I guess that's how I'll be playing sly 3 in the future, which means

:(

which means I have to play through sly 3's FUCKING story campaign, AGAIN. 😱😱😱 I've played through this shit so many times man, any surprises or beauty the narrative held for me back in 2006 is thoroughly dried up at this point. This SUCKS, I just want to pick pockets...

[uesp]

"You pilfer a few amateurly drawn charcoal sketches from your victim."

"Your victim's pockets were full of leaves, none of which are particularly rare or unusual."

"You find an unmailed letter to your victim's mother, describing the petty crime common to the area."

"You pilfer a few pebbles your victim has unaccountably been collecting."

--A few random pickpocketing results from The Elder Scrolls: Arena.

[sky-ham]

I've (think) I've figured out how BG3's pickpocketing rolls work

Compare the two below, with and without gloves that gives a +1:

It seems that the game first takes into account modifiers inherent to the character as well as modifiers from items.

+4 Proficiency +4 Expertise in Sleight of hand +5 DEX modifier +1 Sleight of Hand from gloves

+14 total. Then, it subtracts that from the DC, which is 21, to get 7 as the Target number, which is what you need to beat with your dice and the rest of the modifiers you have.

In the second image I took off the gloves. The DC is 20, but the Target is still 7, which means the total is now +13 without the gloves.

So it seems the Target is the number you have to beat with your dice plus I think 'variable' modifiers like +1d4 Guidance and 'conditional' modifiers like Astarion's +1 Happy. Examples with both below

TLDR: Target = needs to be beat by dice roll + variable/conditional modifiers Number in circle = your actual dice roll

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I signed up for a pickpocketing class and as part of the signup we had to list our favorite magazine subscription and SoundCloud rapper, none of which made any sense or had any correlation with the class I was taking.

[phantom-fyre]

da boom na da noom na namena

[lilithnotsopleasant]

(Genetically correct) Lilith appreciation post. ♥ No, Lilith isn’t taking a selfie with this man, she’s pickpocketing him. :(