Thieving Abilities

This article contains information from the game manual of Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast. This article goes about the four thieving skills in the game.

Table I, Dexterity and thieving abilities
This table shows the relation with dexterity and thieving abilities. For more information on dexterity and the other five character abilites, see Character Abilities.

These numbers are added or subtracted from the base points and racial modifiers. The resulting number is a chance in percentage.

Table II, thieving abilites, racial bonus and the base.
Every race will get the base number. Halfling have the best overall thieving ability bonus, with dwarves second.