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Originally Posted by Borodin
To be honest, I love the idea of burglary and pickpocketing in RPGs, but never seen an implementation I've liked. The problem is that it's so binary, from my perspective: you win, and get everything, or you lose, and logically get very angry marks and the guard after you--which leads to many players simply reloading. It might as well be a 100% success rate, since failure is either too wimpy to matter, to realistic and not something anybody wants to accept. I've no answers for how this could be done in a way that makes failure acceptable, but still heavy enough to deter constant light-fingered activity.
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Yeah, you have a point there. I guess an alternative to getting caught, but failing burglary anyway is to have the lock jam (like in some games) so you can't keep atempting it, but that's a bit lame. As for pickpocketing, I have to admit that when playing above mentioned Star Trail, that was my main income and I would just reload the game if I got caught.
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Heh! Yes, I agree. Though if you do the raubritters with a lot of merchants buying in, you end up coming out way ahead--and there's that one merchant option where you're offered an alchemist's kit: that alone is worth just about any quest. 
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From my memory, raubritters are the only quest that pays off well. Most of the others you either need to sacrify a treasure, or use a very expensive potion or fight a tough opponent (which again leads in having to pay to get healed or for new equoipment).
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You know, somebody should probably do a Darklands clone set in another part of Europe, perhaps France, with more activities, so that the current rights holder can't claim copyright infringement.
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Yeah, to be honest, I always thought the game was supposed to be over a bigger map, or at least have an expansion. After all, what's the point of having St. Patrick, if you can't go to Ireland and use his bonus?
But brand new game with similar gameplay would be great.