Baldur’s Gate 3 offers an impressive variety of solutions to nearly every quest, ensuring that there’s rarely a single “correct” approach. Whether you prefer diplomacy, deception, stealth, brute force, or a mix of all four, every campaign is bound to be unique in some way.
By now, you’ve probably tried your hand at pickpocketing to help you achieve a goal, especially if you frequent Withers’ revival service or tend to play as a rogue or dexterity-based character. However, it’s less likely that you’ll have noticed that you can use the feature to do something else entirely.
You Can Plant Items Onto Enemies With Reverse-Pickpocketing
Certain Items Will Ensure The Quick & Easy Downfall Of Your Enemies
Stealing items isn’t the only thing you can do with this feature – you can also place items into the pockets of your enemies. This doesn’t sound very useful on paper, but if you have a particularly sneaky character in your party, some items can be detrimental to your opponents.
For example, the antimagic field of the Sussur bloom renders most spellcasters practically useless. Though he’ll still summon his myrmidons and have access to a few of his abilities, placing one in Lorroakan’s inventory completely negates the challenge of what is normally a very hard battle.
With the help of a 
Potion of Invisibilityto cover your movement, you can be almost unstoppable.
Reverse-pickpocketing is also incredibly overpowered if you’re in possession of the Twist of Fortune, which you can loot off of Gerringothe Thorm. The Morningstar has a unique ability called “Blood Money” which deals additional piercing damage proportional to your proficiency bonus per every 300 gold the target has on their person.
This can be used once per short rest. It’s easy to write this off as only being useful against shopkeepers, but you use this to cheese almost any fight.
Forcing an absurd amount of gold onto someone will render them extremely vulnerable to this attack. You can even take down bosses like Ketheric Thorm in one blow if you’re that much of a hoarder.
This Tactic Is A Great Way To Prevent Allied NPCs From Dying
Isobel Will No Longer Get Herself Killed
Reverse-pickpocketing is not only useful for sabotaging enemies – you can also use it to help out your allies as well.
Placing potions and elixirs into the inventories of friendly NPCs will prompt them to use them when necessary in battle, which can be massively convenient for keeping certain characters alive – especially Isobel in Last Light Inn, who seems more keen to use them over her healing spells.
In Honor Mode, where you may not be able to turn the tide if a battle goes awry, this is an absolute must-do for ensuring the safety of characters like Jaheira and Rolan. In the same vein, vendors can use any consumables in their inventory that you may have previously sold to them.
Allied NPCs are programmed to throw healing potions at your party members if you need them, so this is also a good tactic to use in large battles if you feel like you might need a bit of extra aid outside your companions’ turns. Long and partial resting refreshes the stocks of vendors, so this is all the more reason to collect as many supplies as you can in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Baldur’s Gate 3
- Released
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August 3, 2023
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
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Larian Studios
- Publisher(s)
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Larian Studios
- Engine
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Divinity 4.0
- Multiplayer
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Online Co-Op, Local Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
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Full cross-platform play.
