Rules Updates for May 14th, 2009

Question regarding pick-pocketing:

If a pouch contains both coin/other IG wealth and cards representing components or trinkets, the IG money will fall to the bottom of the pouch and the cards will remain above them, obstructing access to the coins in the bottom.  This is purely a factor of the size and weight of cards, not the items they represent IG.  Thus, a rules marshal reaches into a pouch and has a much greater chance of pulling out my 20g component than they do a sliver piece.  Obviously, it isn't random this way.

Will there be any means to keep the pick-pocketing process inherently random? 

Metal is the class of armor, so a chain shirt under a breastplate would be typical (as it normally was).  We're trying to keep it simple, while also preventing abuse by layering plate on plate, etc.

Pickpockets - the RM should be looking at the contents of the pouch and determining randomly based on the contents, not grab-bagging it, for that very reason.