Mmmhhh... Jochen and I have planned to add the temple to the God of Thieves as one of the map areas. There you should be able to get your revenge. Him being a greedy bastard sounds about right ;-) But I get your point and will consider that.

Oh, very well then. :) (Cool way to introduce a new quest, btw!)

Sounds great! I suppose the player will be able to recover all the gold stolen from the PC in the new location?

ha i've had so much more vanished away like that. doesn't happen that often though. i think i've lost more to having thieves steel my money, die, drop it on the floor in front of a dragon and watch all the gold melt away under their breath attack, than lost to the greedy god of thieves. it's only money though, you can't take it with you ;)

I think the god of thieves mechanic really needs fixing - it's very punishing before the mid game (when you are most likely to encounter monsters that steal money, with monster adjustment), but it's also very easily avoidable at the same time (you just drop your gold before nailing the monsters to the wall). So...I don't know - I don't feel it really works right now.

Personally, I love it! It's just money, after all, you can always collect more, and it makes thieves significant. I vote no to a cap.

Also very excited to hear that the God of Thieves will have a quest behind it. :-D

I don't see a problem with this, like SirTheta, I just drop my gold and smile whenever I see the "grunts in disappointment" message.

I'd say gold dropping is an exploit. TB should make stealing monsters able to pick up gold from the tile the player's standing on. If they can pick your pocket surely they can pick coins that you have just dropped to the ground in front of them!

Sure they can pick the coins from the ground between your feet but that should just as certainly cost them a massive drop of DV, all the way to zero.
How difficult would it be to slice off the head of somebody 30 centimeters away from you, looking down, eyes focused on the gold, hands busy picking up the coins?

I had a ratling thief stead 30k from me at a point in the game where I very much needed it to get my piety up and remove dooming. Personally I love the mechanic and should be left as is - just give us a chance to steal it back from the God of Thieves :).

Just drop your gold a couple tiles away then, Al-Khwarizmi. The mechanic is dead easy to avoid (and is excessively punishing when not avoided), which is why I think it's broken.

Can I suggest something? Maybe have a third of gold stolen by thief PCs gets "donated" to the god of thieves. If they're Chaotic, it gives them a small piety boost.