Can rogues pickpocket the npc with the no drop item on it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) [SMTP:kblair@...]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 9:50 AM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Guise of the Deceiver
>
> From: "Blair, Keith (Keith Blair)" <kblair@...>
>
> > I don't have much experience with NO DROP
> > items so not certain how this works. If
> > someone has one can I buy it from them?
> > What if someone who can't equip it loots
> > it off the creature that drops it? Does
> > that mean it is forever unusable?
>
> Here's my experience with the most annoying NO DROP setting..
>
> My wife was killed, gave me /consent to loot her body and I was unable to
> loot 2 backpacks she was carrying because they had NO DROP items in them.
> (Don't recall what they were at this time)
>
> A semi-newbie quest in Freeport to kill Lydl the Great results in being
> able
> to pickup a book from his body that is NO DROP. My new wizard and a friend
> kill him (I die in the process) and my friend loots the body so it doesn't
> disappear while I make my way back. He's not a Wizard and can't complete
> the
> quest. He also can't give me the book.
>
> The only solution around this, as was suggested by someone else on this
> list, is to give the item to a mob and then kill the mob to loot the item.
> You can give NO DROP items to NPC's because of the need to be able to do
> so
> for quests.
>
> LORE items I understand, the NO DROP items have gotten a little carried
> away. BurnedOut Lightstones for example. Why can't I give those away to
> someone? They're not a quest, they're not valuable loot, what the hey?
>
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