Lockpicks! Where do I buy/find them?

[Zinnia]

I'm fresh out of lockpicks (or never seem to have enough of them). Does anyone know of a place where I can get more easily?

[Stavelon]

Simply put, you can buy them from fences of Thieves' Guild or merchants of Dark Brotherhood. Good number of enemies/chests offer them too. Also, you should check up on Shady Sam, who resides to the north from Imperial City's western gate.

[spinksy]

try find some goblins - raid a cave of goblins and you'll end up with loads

[Zinnia]

Thanks for those leads! I tried the forts thing but I wasn't turning enough of them up, so at least now I have some peeps to go to.

[SwiftDeathSK]

I'm surprised this has not been mentioned, so I'll do the honors :).

 

 

There is a merchant that sells 30 picks at a time near the outside of the Imperial City. Just go out the western exit where the stables and bridge are, and follow the wall north until you find him. He's standing right behind a corner.

 

 

Or, if you are desperate enough, open the console and type in "player.additem 0000A x" without the quotes, and replacing 'x' with the amount of picks you want.

[ub3rman123]

Well, if you really want to, try doing Nocturnal's quest. You can get an unbreakable lockpick out of it. It's a bit overpowered, though, since you can just hit the auto button until the door is unlocked.

[Pushkatu]

Don't forget about mods.

 

Lockpicks toolkit

 

Morrowind Lockpicking

 

Zumbs Lockpicking Mod OBSE

 

 

There are more, just find the one you like the most. :thumbsup:

[Beorrn]

The so called 'skeleton key' you get after the Nocturnal quest counts as an deadric artifact and somewhere in the main-quest you need to give martin one of those,

if you turn this key in(I don`t know why you should, because it is quite handy) martin will remark something like 'shopowners in all of cyradil will sleep well knowing the key has dissapeard'

[ub3rman123]

Yeah, you'd best give him Wabbajack or something uselessly fun instead.