Psychotic Prankster

Psychotic Prankster is an achievement in Fallout 3 which is awarded for successfully reverse pickpocketing a live explosive into someone's inventory.

Pants Exploded is both a term and a player-statistic that appears on the screen between loading areas. It measures the total number of times the player has planted explosives on someone.

A Stealth Boy can be used if pickpocketing is too difficult against that particular character. Also keep in mind the bulk of equipped gear, ambient lighting, and distance/position behind the target count against you, same as pickpocketing.

Strategy

 * Since you have to be crouching to pickpocket, make sure you holster your weapon, you only have a couple seconds to back out of the blast-zone and its best to keep your hands free so you can move quickly.


 * Even with 100% sneak skill, silent running and an active stealth boy you won't always succeed. So, when its an important or dangerous target, its probably best to save before trying.


 * Even if you fail, if you are sufficiently hidden, you will not be "detected" by the enemy - and will remain . However, you will be unable to attempt pickpocketing on that particular NPC again.


 * An easy way to earn this achievement if you have positive karma is to simply hide behind any friendly NPC, and save. Then you can try as many times as it takes, and once you get it, you will unlock the achievement.  You can then reload and have no negative karma added.

Usable Explosives

 * Bottlecap Mine
 * Frag Grenade
 * Frag Mine
 * Nuka Grenade
 * Plasma Grenade
 * Plasma Mine
 * Pulse Grenade
 * Pulse Mine

Related Pages

 * Sneak
 * Sneak Attack
 * Shady Sands Shuffle
 * Fallout 3 achievements