For some reason, when I read this proposal the word silfir comes to mind.

No. First, if we accept that skelies can have all sorts of things in their inventory, what is so wrong about them having a bone from a different monster?

Voted yes for funny!

I'm unsure of the 'damage' portion. I don't see harm in it, and I think it would be hilarious, but the fact you're picking a *VERY* random item makes me have trouble working it out in my head. The achievement, when this goes on Steam? Hell. Yes. *That* I'm 100% for. :D

"I'm unsure of the 'damage' portion."

If that doesn't inflict damage, then why would any other type of melee attack inflict damage? You are removing part of their body, just the same as if you knocked it loose with a warhammer.

The thing is, you're not removing a portion of their anatomy. You're pickpocketing a random 'bone'. If you had a higher chance to pickpocket bones from a skeleton than from anything else, I would be in agreement that you're removing a portion of it. As it is, you're only pickpocketing a bone because of a random choice on a table that happened to correspond with 'bone'. I.E. it happened to have a bone in its pocket/pouch/whatever.

For all I know, there *is* a higher chance. I don't know, but I didn't think different monsters had a different pickpocket table. ;) If there *is*, then you can ignore what I said above: it's obvious that you were *intended* to be treating bony skeletons as having more bones, and it would make more sense to me to inflict damage on yoinking one out.

My mind considers achievements to be flexible, and not necessarily to involve 'intelligent gameplay'. So having an achievement for a random bone-grab doesn't strike me as confusing; it's just an achievement for a random chance. It would be *annoying* to try and get it, but it wouldn't hurt anything.

Ah. You're right. That is a pretty logical argument. I don't know what to think now.

Well, if it's not such a removal of anatomy now, why not make it one? Add a slightly higher chance to pickpocket bones from skeletons. Perhaps maybe as you reach to pick its "pocket", one bone is looser or something and you end up grabbing it.

See, if there was a higher chance to pickpocket bones from skeletons (like there's a higher chance for them to drop when you kill them)? I would be *all* for the 'doing damage when you pickpocket'. :) As I said above. But I think that should be a different RFE?

If you want to talk logic, why the hell do skeletons have pockets? :P It's a joke suggestion, much in the style of other odd jokes in the game like exploding frogs. Your logic has no place here! ;)

"Skeletons ain't got no where to stick their money, nobody makes britches that size"

"And besides, you're a ghost to most before they notice that you ever had a hair or a hide"

There are actually the lyrics to a song called "a ghost to most" by a band called Drive by Truckers.

This talk of skeletons and pockets made me think of them.

Not really on topic, this discussion just reminded me of that.