Is it really stealing???

[ghoetker]

I'm a new player with a question. When I'm wondering around the Promenade, I find a remarkable assortment of things laying around on tables (e.g., a necklace in the kitchen of the "Den of Seven Veils"). If I just pick those up, i.e., not using "pick pocket" or any such, is that going to count as stealing and either

a) get me in trouble with the townsfolk
b) give my paladin protaganist "bad karma".

Thanks.

[Yshania]

It is stealing save first and try your luck, if the townsfolk catch you they will turn hostile...hurting these people will then lower your reputation...

[fable]

Unlike, say, the Ultima games, you can't simply grab everything that isn't nailed down. Taking anything from a sales stall is viewed as theft, and you can expect to hear from the law over it.

[frogus]

I completed Shadows of Amn only being caught once for taking stuff from unlocked containers....I reloaded of course.

[Arcane]

from a roleplaying stance, ppl would consider it stealing (beware of noble men in TIGHT green breeches ) and it should give you *LAWFUL GOOD * pally a bad karma (beware of fat men sitting cross legged when you take that one final stab; no offense to any one)....but from a normal gamers point of view its nothing........

pally's are to blah for me...CG ASSASINS RULE!!!!!

[Phantom Lord]

It is stealing but you don't get in trouble too often. My NE F/T loots everything and I've played him through SoA and half way through ToB so far without anyone turning hostile while I b&e'd their houses. I only failed at stealing in shops (very often) and PP (few times).

[Eusabian]

I find that if you take things from tables specifically in weapons shops you will be discovered and guards will come. but if you take stuff from the inns and outside tables no one really cares.

[kopywrite]

Minor Spoiler

Don't try lifting anything from Cromwell's though...