Baldur's Gate 3: How To Pickpocket - Everything You Need To Know

Aaaand we're baaaack!
Baldur's Gate 3 you can be anyone you want to be and do just about anything you want to do.
Pickpocketing is one of those things.
Gear up and strap in, I hope this video helps you understand the mechanics of pickpocketing in Baldur's Gate 3.

Like and Subscribe if you want more BG3 videos!
Thank you so much for being here.
Go out and do some Fetch Quests of your own, sometimes the rewards are worth it :)

00:00 Intro
00:34 Pickpocketing Basics
01:09 Dexterity and Sleight of Hand
02:06 Guidance, Hide, Line of Sight, & Target
03:11 Turn-Based Mode Tip
03:26 Caught Red-Handed
03:36 Dialogue Window Helps a LOT
03:58 Various Outcomes After Successful Pickpocket
05:05 Prison
05:36 Stealing Multiple Items
07:02 Silver Tongue
07:36 Fun Fact
07:49 Evasive Maneuvers
09:33 MURRRDERRRRR

If you’re feeling generous, feel free to buy me a coffee ☕️🙏🏼🥳

#baldursgate3 #bg3 #stealing

[FetchQuestsYT]

What’s the most surprising thing that’s happened to you while stealing items? 💰💰💰
Thank you for being here!

[lucas]

Use a high value simple item like a gemstone to barter for the items you want. Then pickpocket that gemstone back. Stealing a jade is much easier than stealing weapons. Keep using the gemstone to barter for the stuff you want. You can also gift the gemstone a few times using barter to get their attitude towards your high charisma character up, lowering the cost of the items you want.

Just pretend you're telling the vendor "this is a different diamond, I swear!"

[Colouh]

Fun fact, if you are caught stealing and bribe the npc, you can again steal that gold.

[nadroj]

Tip: Once you have successfully pickpocketed an NPC, you can use your map to quickly teleport on the nearest portal instead of manually running away from the crime scene. This is more useful than going to camp which may trigger unplanned cut scenes.

[JS-wtvf]

Worth noting that if you kill them, the inventory you have to loot will be much less than what they were selling. If you switch to non-lethal damage and just knock them out, you get the entire shop (or nearly) including anything you traded them. Their dispostion won't be great when they wake up but you can work that back up.

[tytoz]

best thing you can do if you are gonna pickpocket is turn off the lights. all the fire and the fire pit means the NPCs can see you easier. Turn it off and its MUCH easier to sneak away or hide

[gossymer.]

I recommend using pickpocketing just before your long rest. Then use the map to go to camp and rest so the heat of the theft has abated.

[derricksteward]

Have your party be at least level 3, us Astarion or your own character as a rogue or bard with expertise in slight of hand, the Smugglers ring, and the amulet of guidance, have shadow heart use Enhance Ability Cats Grace, someone else use guidance, and have Gale use invisibility, do this all in tern based mode to maximize your time. I've ran through all the merchants in the Grove and Goblin Camp excluding Ethel all before 10 turns elapse.

[_shogun_gaming_]

If you plan on taking his stuff and not using that trader anymore, use knock out and instead of kill, that way you get to loot ALL his trading items, by killing him you only get some of it

[TheCoastalAVENGER]

one of my favorite things to do in Divinity Original Sin 2 was to steal and pick pocket pretty much everything that wasn't nailed down to fuel my unhealthy obsession with buying spell tomes and such lol. Glad to see I'll be able to do it here as well and the turn based mode will make pickpocketing a lot easier to plan out!

[noxiaultima]

Extra tips on this (specifically for robbing merchants): You can split stacks of gold in a merchants inventory by holding shift and dragging from the gold pile. Stacks of 100 gold with the sleight of hand +2 ring (by where you find Karlach) and +1 gloves (forgot where I got these), with a level 4 rogue, on explorer, is a 0 roll for success, i.e guaranteed with a halfling. 200 is a 3-4. ALSO, important note that I just tested in game, the search from the npc starts generally starts AFTER you exit the window, meaning you can steal a large amount of items in a chain if you split their stacks unless you fail a check. I've been testing this and after about 20 items they turned around and instantly initiated combat, so stealing about 10 at a time seems optimal. Also also, merchants reset after a long rest. Do with that what you will and happy thievery <3

[demon_otf_]

For such a thorough tutorial on pickpocketing, I'm surprised there wasn't a section on the Arcane Trickster's ability to do it with a mage hand.

[crazy-tommy]

Every class can get Sleight of Hands by choosing Urchin or Charlatan as background. In addition to Bard and Rogue also Rangers can get it by choosing Urban Tracker. To increase your chance let a Bard, Cleric, Druid or Sorcerer cast Enhance Ability: Dexterity on your pickpocketing character. It gives advantage, so you always do two dice rolls while pickpocketing and take the better one.

[FlyingRektum]

If you have a Bard in your team, you can make him play music to attract NPCs far from the stealing zone.

[bjacobs]

the cat familiar or the cat druid form is useful to pull npcs away so you can shift cones of sight to wear u want them or don't want them

[RecliningWhale]

So, another easier option is to toggle the non-lethal attack option on, cast something like darkness on the merchant as well as cast silence on the merchant (companions and or scrolls if need be depending on your party comp) and then make sure you're in turn-based mode, and have as many of your party members attack the merchant as is necessary to down them. Most merchants aren't particularly strong, or at the very least aren't a match for an entire party. Make sure you don't finish them off with anything that will trigger lethal damage through the non-lethal toggle (such as spells). Once they're down you can loot everything on them, go to camp, rest (i tend to long rest but haven't tested if partial rest is sufficient), and you can go back and they don't even know what hit them.

Repeating this multiple times seems to eventually net you all their shit. You can also combine this with bartering like a normal person to actually end up with them liking you. Tell yourself its the brain damage that is causing the change in their disposition if you have to make it fit into RP. I've used this combined with gems or a certain egg of astonishing value to make all the merchants love me despite the weird surge in robberies that seem to follow my character wherever they go...

[KeyroTono]

Something I noticed was that my entire party isn't questioned when the party is grouped up. But if you toggle off group or just separate one character, each group of your party gets questioned.

[aaronspielman]

Correction for the newer folks: Characters of any class can obtain slight of hand proficiency from one of a few background choices at character creation. So you can be any class and be proficient in the skill. But only bards and rogues can get Expertise (doubles the proficiency bonus of the skill) and they can choose to set it to Slight of Hand or any of their other skills as you see fit to choose.

[Nikioko]

It is not just enough to pass the skill check when pickpocketting, you also have to get out of sight in time. Otherwise, the victim will conclude that it was you who robbed him.

[acharori]

If you finish the quest "Find the Missing Shipment" without attempting to unlock the cargo chest, Gloves of Thievery become available from the merchant (Brem) near the quest giver, they give Advantage on Sleight of Hand Checks, enjoy :)