Had a question about what factors into the success of stealing an item from a shop. The question arose when i was making a run through Ratha.

During the run, i had absolute top of my game 5/5 thief bonus, skulk going, no burden/armor and i was knocking over every shop on my run flawlessly, then i get to one of the last shops on the run, the jewler on the 3rd tier, which i usually steal 4 relatively easy items from with no issues. First attempt at stealing something way below my skill level that barely taught anyways...the shopkeeper caught me nabbing the item.

So, my question is: Is there just always a random chance to fail, no matter how easy the item is and how skilled the thief is?

No burden. I run light enough that i'm still unburdened at the end of my run.

And actually, while i'm thinking about it...currently my first stop is Namazzi's Ship Goods to steal a duffel bag which i then proceed to store all the stolen items in from the rest of my run.

Currently i take out each individual stolen item to bin individually. Would i get the same rep increase if i just threw the entire duffel bag full of stolen goods into the bin?

My guess is you just got snake eyes. It is fairly rare, but I've been tracking all my stealing runs very closely for the past 50 ranks, and I get nabbed on the easy ones once in awhile, too.

GENT

>>Yes, there is always a random chance to fail and you will never grow out of it. With enough skill it becomes quite rare, though.

Wrong.

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The entire statement. Snake-eyes (critical failure chance regardless of skill) has repeatably been stated to be removed.

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So if snake-eyes has been removed, do you have any guesses as to what i'm doing that caused the fail on that particular steal? one of the easiest items on the run AND it was the first attempt in that shop, so no multi-attempt penalties to success. No armor being worn, no burden and confidence was at least 4/5 but probably 5/5 during the whole run. Just recently came back and i'm trying to get a good feel of my thief's abilities and how hard i can push myself. things like this seem to keep popping up and throwing a wrench into the cogs.

I stand corrected. I swore it was during Royce's tenure, but given Z's post, (and I can't find anything else about it), it seems I was wrong.

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"Disagreement with the fundamental plan at this point is akin to supporting Richard III vs the Tudors."
-Raesh

You can still get critical failure, "Snake Eyes," it was just defanged some to make the worst possible failure less punitive than before.

I usually only mark the first shop right before i start my stealing run just to make sure the hour timer is expired. I also have a pet empath i keep around to make sure i dont have any invisible wounds. I try to keep myself as pristine as possible when going on stealing runs. Just for the heck of it the other day, i let my confidence drain down to neutral 0/5 and then went on a run. got caught 3 times on the run and thrown in jail, so i'm definitely paying attention to the smirk results before stealing too.

I also added a few counters into my script to help me tell how often i'm being seen. As long as i have full confidence and no wounds/armor/burden i can get through a run stealing a total of 50 items without getting caught...most of the time. I still get seen randomly though.

LoL, troll/irony fail.

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"Disagreement with the fundamental plan at this point is akin to supporting Richard III vs the Tudors."
-Raesh

Wrong to ask for explanation

Wasn't during the Royce era, Royce left sometime in 2002 I believe.


alsthough this post appeared in "ask the GMs" in 2005 when Risek was still Thief GM:

<<SNAKEEYES:
Getting rid of this was a priority at one point. Any word on it now? It still bothers me like no other.


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Email Author Re: Snake Eyes on 04/05/2005 07:31 PM EDT
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Still planned.

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It was Z who actually eliminated Snake-eyes when he rewrote stealing, which was released in late 2006.


By the way, in looking back in the old, old 2004 posts, there were supposed to be thief passages released on ratha. I guess these got lost???

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Again, I point to this post on 2/10/2011 that indicates its still very much alive, assuming critical failure and snake eyes refer to the same thing. http://elanthipedia.org/w/index.php/Post:Stealing_-_2/10/2011_-_23:07:03