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Make sure you grab the passport, the matchbook, the camera, the letter, and the Molochean Hand amulet from the crash site.

Be sure to travel to Dernholm and Black Root before heading to Tarant.

If you plan on thieving, don't kill Lucan at the Shrouded Hills bridge. Instead, persuade him (you only need one rank, and maybe Apprentice level) and he'll give you an in with the Thief Underground in Tarant and Caladon.

As a gunfighter, hoard the following items: saltpeter/charcoal (for bullets), looking glasses, marksman rifles, mithril, charges, and corrosive acid. Everything else can be found pretty easily.

If you want Worthless Mutt in your party, then as soon as you arrive in Ashbury for the first time, get to the east side of the inn (SE part of town) and rescue him from the gnome kicking him to death. If you take too long, Mutt will die.

You'll need three ranks of pick locks and Expert level in it before it'll be feasible to steal from shopkeepers. With a good starting Dexterity, you should be able to achieve this before reaching Tarant (as there's an Expert trainer in Black Root).

The easiest way to steal from shopkeepers is to wait in their store until evening, then wait two more hours. They'll head for the bedroom, where the barrel with all their merch is, and you can just follow them in. Then, be sure to enter prowl mode (you don't need any ranks in it) while picking the lock on their stash, which will usually be a chest or barrel near their bed. This is the only way to rob stores with guards, inside or outside.

Some shopkeepers never sleep, which means you can never rob them.

As a tech, you'll eventually be barred from trading with mages. You can still steal from them, though.

As a thief, don't waste too many points on pickpockets. It's ineffective for largescale theft because you can only pickpocket 100gp from someone at a time, and the level bonuses aren't all that great. I tend to save up my fate points for the like 4 times the game needs me to pick a pocket.

In Roseborough, speak to everyone in the inn. One of them will help you find a bridge that's crucial to travel on that side of the continent.

Make sure you have (and are possibly wearing) the Molochean Hand amulet before entering T'sen Ang

Keep one of these items on you throughout the game: shovel, mithril, kathorn crystal, and heartstone

As a gunfighter/thief, pump your Dexterity to about 13 or 15 (enough to reach expert level in Pick Locks). Ignore melee, and possibly even dodge. Boost your perception up to a natural 17 so you can advance firearms quickly, as you'll suffer without a decent melee attack. DX is crucial, though, so that you can steal guns, bullets and armor.

Your best weapons will probably be the Fine Revolver, then the Repeater Rifle, then the Hand Cannon, which you'll eventually replace with Droch's Warbringer. Those will pretty much slice through any enemy you're likely to encounter. After that, you should be a high enough level to make the crazy ones like the Tesla gun or the Acid Gun.