D&D 5E Sleight of Hands Questions.

[maritimo80]

Imagine the following situations.


1) A wizard with a very powerful parchment in his backpack walking through this city alone, and a thief tries to steal it with Sleight of Hands. What is the test that the thief must do to Sleight of Hands? Check resisted against perception of the magician? Active or passive perception? Normal, advantage or disadvantage? Where does stealth check? The thief could steal only if stealth?


2) And in the same situation the Wizard is in the middle of a crowd. What is the test?


3) If the item instead of the backpack is, is in his belt (easier to steal), as would be the test?

4) Think this situation for example with two characters, a magician and a thief. How would those opposed checks? The item apparel be in the backpack or belt changes the test (or disdvantage advantage)? The FAO of being in a crowd or in a tavern for example or alone, change the test (or disdvantage advantage)? Need the thief be stealthy in which sisutação? Being stealthy helps the theft?

 

[rjfTrebor]

these are all questions that would depend on the DM's judgement. the game gives some basic guidelines that you already seem to know given your referencing of them.

i think your problem with the rules right now is that you're trying to look at them like a card game. there's no one way for a your situation to play out because every DM would run it differently. I can imagine some asking for a stealth check to sneak up on the wizard followed by a sleight of hand check to open his back pack, followed by another to steal the scroll, followed by yet another stealth check to get away clean. others might ask for only a single sleight of hand check vs passive perception, while others might make it a simple dex vs wis contest. the rules support all of these options in equals spades.