Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind

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Sure, your stats got bumped down by 1, but for me, it sure made the game

more realistic. You had to be VERY sneaky to get away with stuff, or at least I did.

 

While it keeps you on your toes, I wouldn't call the legal system of Morrowind very realistic. Any notion of realism is quickly dispelled once you realize that the law only applies to you and no-one else. An NPC can pickpocket or attack you in plain sight of an Ordinator without them doing anything to aid you. If you had attacked the NPC instead, the Ordinator would be all over you before you could blink.

 

Then there's the weird system of handling stolen goods. Not just that every two-bit grunt of a guard has a sixth-sense to automatically know exactly what of the stuff you carry is stolen.

 

Worse, have you ever picked up an item of a specific type that was owned by an NPC, then all items of that kind you have in your inventory will be concidered stolen for the rest of the game. It will be confiscated if you are arrested even if you bought the item from a merchant or received it as a quest reward, as long as it is of a type you've picked up some time in the past. Quite annoying.

 

(And when Ordinators confiscate loot you've "stolen" from one of the Vampire Clan headquarters that their own Temple sent you to clean out, it gets rather comical. The Temple sees vampires as abominations to be destroyed, but their belongings are still protected by property laws. Right...)

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Worse, have you ever picked up an item of a specific type that was owned by an NPC, then all items of that kind you have in your inventory will be concidered stolen for the rest of the game. It will be confiscated if you are arrested even if you bought the item from a merchant or received it as a quest reward, as long as it is of a type you've picked up some time in the past. Quite annoying.

 

Once I figured that out during my first play through, I made a point not to steal anything in any subsequent games I played or If I did steal something it would only be an item I knew I would never want to keep.

 

After 3 completed games though I found that it was completely unnesssary to steal anything, But in those game I never joined the thieves guild so It wasn't part of the roleplay to steal.

 

but if you have to steal and know your going to get caught or want to get caught then simply drop everything in your inventory on the ground and when a guard catches you either pay the fine or do some time then return to where you left your loot and carry on with your game.