u gotta pick a pocket or 2....

[Throrgrim]

i just entered ust natha after illithid tunnels and beginning of eye tyrant tunnels and i brought a few class scrolls sold stuff, but i really want the sentinel shield and i dont hav enuf dosh.
i got the gloves of pick pocketing on imoen and i go into the buy screen, switch to steal but he catches me every time!!!!!
any help would be nice plz as i badly want this shield (and a few other items.)
NO i haven't got any potions of master thievery and i've tried pickpocketing outside the shopping screen but it didn't work (said he carried no items)
plz i want this shield, nearly as badly as when i spent 14 grand on the fortress shield (no waste there its ace).
plz help me guyz, my life depends on it [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Lord Lothar]

I don't think that you can get Imoen's pickpocket ability high enough to successfully pick the merchant's pockets without potions of thievery. If you have Jan in your party you might be able to pick his pockets but not with Imoen.

[Zarr]

Look in the underdark to see if you can buy some potions of master thievery that's your only option. Even if you find some there may not be enough as Imoen has a low pickpocket score and those merchants are very hard to steal from.

[Ghostalker]

Well i think pick-pocketing & stealing goods are 2 different things, let the Pro's confirm that though ..

[Lord Lothar]

Originally posted by Ghostalker: Well i think pick-pocketing & stealing goods are 2 different things, let the Pro's confirm that though ..

They are two different things but in order to steal goods, you need to have a high pick-pocket score.

[Zarr]

Originally posted by Ghostalker: Well i think pick-pocketing & stealing goods are 2 different things, let the Pro's confirm that though ..

Wether you can steal goods from a merchant is calculated by the thieves pickpocket score.

[Zuvio]

I took this part out of Dan Simpson's walkthrough:

"Fake Talk" as Applied to Stealing from Shopkeepers: (from Aleph) ---------------------------------------------------- Kudos to your "talk-fight" strategy. I have expanded on this a bit, and would like to give you another way to use it beyond dragonslaying... it's called the "Absent-Minded Shopkeeper". Steps. 1) Enter store. 2) Save game. 3) Ask to see goods and start stealing away from the Steal screen. 4) The second you are caught and the steal screen dissapears, hit space bar. Don't even wait for the normal screen to come back. 5) While paused, click on the storekeeper again (talk function) and unpause. If timed right, you will be able to talk to them again, and thus continue stealing. You can also quicksave while paused if you doubt your reflexes. 6) At the end, talk to the shopkeeper without getting caught and you should be able to walk away without their turning red, rep loss, etc. Note: There are times when this strategy will fail, causing the people to go hostile anyway. Stolen items can then be sold at any shopkeep whose goods are "stolen". (Roger the Fence, the Thieves Guild, etc.)

Hope it helps!

[ 11-05-2002, 06:08 PM: Message edited by: Zuvio ]

[Throrgrim]

i've heard of that tactic, i'll give it a go....