Posted by: weimer
« on: December 12, 2002, 12:45:20 PM »Her "score" in Set Traps may be just from her Dex mod. It doesn't matter -- she's *way too small* to be putting together a deadfall or a snare.
Similarly, if you've ever seen a hamster you'll know that even a super-intelligent one could not possibly pick-pocket anything from a conscious target. Even a comotose figure would provide a vast challenge. :-) This is was my design choice to nix her pickpocketing.
Personally, I feel that even the ferret's pickpocket score is way too high. Unless the thief owning the ferret *holds the ferret* up to my pocket-level, there's no way that thing is climbing up my leg to get to my coin pouch without me noticing. And if the thief is that close, it may as well be associated with the thief and not the animal. Anyway. A ferret might be able to pull some things off a comotose individual and come back with them, but that's about it. I know they are really flexible and quick ... but being able to bend through bars is not the same as being able to take a ring of my fingers with little paws without me noticing.
Similarly, if you've ever seen a hamster you'll know that even a super-intelligent one could not possibly pick-pocket anything from a conscious target. Even a comotose figure would provide a vast challenge. :-) This is was my design choice to nix her pickpocketing.
Personally, I feel that even the ferret's pickpocket score is way too high. Unless the thief owning the ferret *holds the ferret* up to my pocket-level, there's no way that thing is climbing up my leg to get to my coin pouch without me noticing. And if the thief is that close, it may as well be associated with the thief and not the animal. Anyway. A ferret might be able to pull some things off a comotose individual and come back with them, but that's about it. I know they are really flexible and quick ... but being able to bend through bars is not the same as being able to take a ring of my fingers with little paws without me noticing.