Baldur's Gate 3 - How to Thieve Shopkeepers (The Most Scummy Way to Get Rich)

Guide to Thieve Shopkeepers

Preparing for Thievery

Step 1: Find and recruit Withers to your camp.
Step 2: Talk to him about hirelings, hire Brinna Nightsong the Halfling Bard (Halfing Luck OP)
Step 3: Respec Brinna into a rogue thief.
Step 4: Find any shopkeeper you want to steal from and also keep friendly to repeat the process by long resting.
Step 5: Equip the Gloves of Power acquired from one of the Goblin Bosses attacking the Grove the first time you find it (+1 sleight of hand).
Step 6: Use Shadowheart’s spell ‘Enhance Ability: Cat’s Grace’ on Brinna Nightsong for advantage of dexterity (sleight of hand).
Step 7: Speak to the shopkeeper with a separate character in the opposite direction of the location you plan to steal from the shopkeeper from.
- You can play music if you got the ability to from Alfira or are playing a bard to move the shopkeeper into a different location.
Step 8: While your second character is speaking to the shopkeeper do not initiate a trade, character switch to Brinna Nightsong using the bottom left menu.
Step 9: While out of vision of other NPCs, enter sneak mode and then enter turn based mode and create a Quick Save (F5).

Thievery

Tip: When failing, just quickload. Your action will be gone if you have just stolen an item and quicksaved, however, exit turn based mode to find the shopkeeper will not notice the items are missing because they’re engaged in conversation!

Step 10: Start with the lowest roll required items you want to steal, using halfling luck and cats grace, you should be able to steal whole rows of potions, camp supplies, low level scrolls, light items.
Step 10.5: Quicksave after stealing items so you don’t have to steal them again if you quickload after a failure. Quickload on failures, and then reset action point to pickpocket again by exiting turn-based mode, re-entering turn based mode and quicksaving to repeat the process.
Step 11: Repeat step 10 using the thievery tip to steal high roll required items. They will required more quickloads to get without getting caught.

Cons:

You might end up spending hours of IRL time stealing the inventory of the shopkeepers repeatedly over multiple in-game days, because getting rich in video game is addicting.
Game gets really easy. You now have every item, every scroll, every Gold Coin any shopkeeper ever held dear, at your fingertips…. if you wish.

Pros:

Game gets really easy. You now have every item, every scroll, every Gold Coin any shopkeeper ever held dear, at your fingertips…. if you wish.
Low roll items such as potions, scrolls, dyes and others will be VERY low roll. Sometimes requiring a 0 roll, it’s common to see these items requiring a roll of 1-3. Using halfling luck, cat’s grace, gloves of power.. It makes thievery trivial, allowing to you make one quicksave and commonly stealing 40+ items from traders, their entire inventory in one 6 second turn based mode pocket.
I entered act 2 with over 10,000 gold coins and every unique item from all the vendors in Act 1 and the monastery. My camp chest has a unique item chest in it with over 100 unique items from the game so far.
I have 70 unique spell scrolls I carry all the time, I can train them on my wizard or use them whenever.