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I don't understand how Thieves' Tools work in this game (pawb.social)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
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Like, you can consume one to reroll a lockpicking check. That bit makes sense.

But also sometimes you'll pick a lock, not reroll, and it'll consume one of your tools anyway.

Same thing with trap disarming kits.

Do they have a 'durability %' that is just hidden to the player? Does it relate to the difficulty of the lock itself?

Sometimes I'll pick seven doors without a single one being consumed, and sometimes three of them will be consumed in a row.... ?

I don't get it, and I found no explanation for it anywhere in the game.

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[–] [S] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

No but like, sometimes you'll succeed a roll and a message will pop up going "THIEVES' TOOLS USED"

It seems to happen when I roll something that's just a bit more than the DC, so like, a lock that needs 20 and I'll roll 21, it gets consumed. Whereas it seems to happen less when rolling like 10 more than I need.

But then sometimes even this observation doesn't seem to apply.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Are you sure it's actually consuming the tools when you get the message that they were used? I noticed the same message and had the same concern but when I started paying closer attention to the number of tools I had in my inventory it only ever went down if I failed a lockpick. If I lockpick and succeed I get the message, and sure I did use my tools, but they remain in my inventory.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    You use thieves tools every time, but they break if you fail. That's the easiest way to think about it. That message popping up doesn't correspond with breaking a thieves tools in my experience. So you get the message, but the total available remains the same.

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