How to make stealing more fun

[Riev]

Reintroduce trap and let me trap my worn containers to stab a dude with a poisoned needle.

Reintroduce trap and let me trap my worn containers

Reintroduce trap and let me trap

Reintroduce trap

[Jingo]

trap buried artifacts

[IAmJacksOpinion]

Reintroduce trap and let me trap my worn containers to stab a dude with a poisoned needle.

Reintroduce trap and let me trap my worn containers

Reintroduce trap and let me trap

Reintroduce trap

[Inks]

I really love CodeMaster's idea.

[Rokal]

I like both ideas.  Poison needle traps to thwart pickpockets sounds downright brutal -- in a good way.  You'd really have to have your hate on for pickpockets.  Qzzrbl's idea would be awesome; but it seems like it would be a relatively large coding project if done server-side, with hooks everywhere in the code.  Client-side I think it would be relatively straight-forward, in most cases.

I thought some more about what I suggested earlier, and I think an even simpler system might be something like the following:

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You feel a hand in your belongings, but are unable to catch the culprit.
You catch a brief glimpse of the thief, who is wearing a bone-studded leather cap.

Your pouched belt feels lighter.
You catch a brief glimpse of the thief, who is wearing a dark, hooded cloak.


Just think about all the cool consequences:

Pickpockets would have a simple way to disguise themselves: if they know bits of their equipment are going to be revealed at random, they have a disincentive to wear fancy/unique items, and so better resemble a poor person (as they should).  They also have an incentive to switch what they're wearing every once in a while, to switch cloaks and hats and so on.

Repeat pickpocket attempts are implicitly discouraged, because they start to divulge more and more information to the victim.

Victims get a hint about who they should be watching out for.  So if they're in a room with five other people and one of them is stealing from them, they have a hope of being able to identify the (unhidden) pickpocket by using the 'look' command -- assuming the pickpocket isn't hidden.

i totally support this.