Best way to steal

[ScionJustice]

I think it's really fun and functional to steal in a campaign (but not from PCs). What are the best ways to steal that you have thought of or done? Do you have any good tactics?

 

[Theroc]

I think it's really fun and functional to steal in a campaign (but not from PCs). What are the best ways to steal that you have thought of or done? Do you have any good tactics?

My father's D&D group robbed a bank in 1st edition.

When someone caught them and rang the 'alarm' bell, they lit the hotel adjacent to the bank on fire, and had their charismatic character inform the approaching mob that the bell was rung to alert them to the burning hotel. While the town was preoccupied with the fire, they got the loot and booked it away.

My dad ended up getting kicked out of the Thieves' Guild for it. (That bank was where the Guild kept their money.)

 

[milo]

My favorite way to steal is to loot. Not really stealing but it works.

 

[dingle]

How about a small gnome sorcerer with a bag oh holding he could use reduce person and dimension door into a chest (as long as its not full) clean it out and dimension door out without leaving a trace.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Best "theft" I ever saw as in an epic game where the DM stupidly allowed the PC wizard to make a transmutation spell to turn lead into platinum...and other such spells. He ended up breaking the world's economy...

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

For literal theiving, we never did it too much in our games. The best example had the party do it as a team. We were evil, of course. Myself (rogue) and the monk looted as many houses as we could while the bard and the rest of the party entertained the town with a circus.

Meld into Stone always seemed like the perfect spell to set up a big robbery. I imagine clerics of Olida...however you spell his name using it. Meld into Stone :: d20srd.org

 

[ScionJustice]

Best "theft" I ever saw as in an epic game where the DM stupidly allowed the PC wizard to make a transmutation spell to turn lead into platinum...and other such spells. He ended up breaking the world's economy...

Awesome. I don't see why transmutation magic could not do this, but it shore makes things different. Remember, if magic can move you through planes, it should be able to change one metal to another, think about the level 0 prestidigitation spell. I wonder there could even be any currency in a D&D fantasy world.

 

[dingle]

For literal theiving, we never did it too much in our games. The best example had the party do it as a team. We were evil, of course. Myself (rogue) and the monk looted as many houses as we could while the bard and the rest of the party entertained the town with a circus.

That reminds me we had a similar trick the gang all had quite good charisma scores and my thief had gloves of arrow snaring. So we would put on a show and then pick pocket the crowd. Went quite well untill my thief picked a cursed coin that made his eyes bleed continuosly, bit of a downer after that.

 

[Allegro]

Have the party at sword point rob a merchant. Then have the bard of the party cast Modify Memory and change the memory to the party chasing off a group of thieves that were about the kill the merchant after looting the store. Not only do you get the loot, but the merchant is grateful

 

[insanogeddon]

Make the thief and DM cry:

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