ARTFUL DODGER

From a useless pickpocket to a pickpocket with increased mobility.

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When you acquire the pickpocket skill, the upper limit of pickpocket opportunities is dynamically increased. By default you will start with a cap of 90% (the same as the unmodified value), but over time the cap will rise until it reaches 99% of 100 pickpocket skills.

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Whenever you select a pocket in Skyrim, it calculates your chances of success based on a number of variables, including pickpocket skill, the value of the stolen item, and more. However, the chance of success is capped at 90%, no matter how good a pickpocket you are, or how worthless the item is. This means that a pickpocket with 100 skills and a few magic items to help his pickpocket steal a gold coin will still fail ten times. It's a bit frustrating and makes the pickpocket experience ridiculous on a higher level.

Now one option is to raise the cap to 99 or 100 from the start, but this makes the early game too easy and allows you to more or less loot everyone you come across without too much trouble as long as you stick to low value items. It's a bit boring because you can never get away from the thrill of angry guards and victims. So with this mod you can experience what it's like to be a novice thief early on, but like a ninja-like ghost in the end game.