I'm currently on bandit challenge 7 (50$ cash and valuables from robbing townsfolk and travellers) and would like to avoid having to rob 50 people, given the usual haul. I know that catching a pickpocket would give me a convient way to finish the challenge without requiring grinding it (especially grindy due to the honor loss).
However, I already ran into two of them beforehand and now can't seem to trigger another occurance of this particular kind of encounter – are these one-off encounters which cannot be repeated?
Are there maybe locations I missed, where it could also happen? (I've only had it happen in St. Denis)
Best Answer
Some important things to note
These are random events that occur all over RDR2 in a way to give a feeling of more life. My understanding is if you complete a chance encounter and it's successful then the encounter will not occur again.
If you fail a random encounter then the encounter will "respawn" and have a chance to be completed again. There doesn't seem to be a defined time for these to happen, most likely the best thing to do is go to another part of the map and pass a few in-game days, once you've passed them you can go back and look to trigger the chance encounter.
I'm unsure what exactly your situation falls under but this should hopefully help.