kingdoms-amalur-reckoning
I was poking my nose about the Alchemist's shop when I found a locked chest. Greedy little sneakthief that I am, I wasted no time in picking the lock in search of loots!
The guards, who were upstairs at the time, immediately rushed downstairs and tried to arrest me.
Is there some way to ensure my thievings don't get interrupted by psychic guards?
According to this interview on RPGamer.com, you can do all the faction quests in a single playthrough:
The player can make a lot of choices about the main character's story, but how much can we affect the world around us?
There aren't a lot of destructive branching paths in the story that lock the player onto a certain path or close off things in the game. Rolston used to think that forcing characters to make these kinds of choices was innovative game design, but he now sees them as too limiting. There are lots of choices in the game, but the consequences of the choices won't lock the player out of content. Players will be able to complete all the faction questlines in a single playthrough of the game if they so choose.
This speaks to the game's replayability as well. The game was designed in such a way that the player can replay it if they desire, but can also experience all the game's content with a single character. The ability to respecialize at will even allows players to experiment with the different Destinies and combat abilities on a single character.
The problem is probably that you're trying to change the resolution while your character is loaded, instead of exiting back to the main menu and doing it from there. For some reason, once you're already playing your character, the option to change your resolution disappears.
Best Answer
Your chance to be caught at thievery seems to correlate to the guard's awareness level of you. You can easily see your chance to fail as a percentage next to the item's name when you're about to loot it.
If the guard is in sight, you can also see how aware he is of you by entering stealth mode and looking at the icon over his head.
This means that a guard may not even be in the same room as you, but may notice you steal, simply because his "awareness" from when he last saw you hasn't worn off yet. His awareness will drop over time as you stay out of his sight. My experience is that the awareness level seems to drop for different guards at different rates... it was almost instantaneous for the guard in the alchemist's shop in Gorhart, but took longer for the guard in Shieldring Keep.