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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StGabe" data-source="post: 3444064" data-attributes="member: 49275">Depends on how you define sleight of hand I suppose.  I knew a magician who, for example, could occasionally pick people's watches off their arms.  Sure he was dexterous but he was also great at just misdirecting attention and guiding someone through this all unawares.  Same with with a lot of magic tricks, just a matter of keeping someone's eyes and attention in one place while you are busy doing something somewhere else.Is that not sleight of hand?  I'd say it is.  You already get a synergy bonus to the skill if you have a good bluff.  You might add synergy bonuses to career pick-pocketing for appraise/knowledge(local)/whatever but I think that just using the raw sleight of hand skill still makes sense.  The stuff you're mentioning is already part of the broad definition of the skill.</blockquote>