I know there are a few quests that "Take" everything out of your inventory, but as far as I can tell, they automatically put the items back in your inventory, or dont take "Quest Items"...But I've been "Playing the game how I want"; So when I pickpocket a quest item, or loot a random dungeon and...SURPRISE! QUEST ITEM!!!...It gets annoying, I have roughly 100lbs of quest items in my inventory...a 20lb scroll being one of them, some weapons, etc...

Obviously Bethesda didnt pick up on the fact that NOT EVERYONE wants to do, or will do EVERY QUEST...

I'm sure there are more like it, but this for example...

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Kahvozein%27s_Fang - "Once the player's Alteration skill reaches 100, you can ..."


Quest Item!...Cause when I'm playing as a Warrior/Melee type...It's CLEARLY one of my goals to max Alteration...(Obviously someone didnt think about this very much).

Point being...Is there a way to bug a quest/do a quest that steals all my items, and I can MANUALLY pick and choose what I pick back up? (For example, looting a chest and getting the items back one at a time.)

I can't answer your question, sorry. However, I can tell you that quest items don't actually weigh anything, regardless of what their weight stat says. So, you don't have to worry a bout being encumbered because of them. You just have to worry about inventory clutter.

Well for me they weigh something. The instruments from the bard's quests all weigh four pounds each and I can't take them out of my inventory because it says they are "quest" items. I completed the quests so why are they still in there? Also those gems for the thieves guild that you can't get rid of weigh 0.5 pounds each for me. Some of my quest items don't weigh anything, but some do.

Yup, my buddy said items dont weigh anything for him in our "Party Chat"...But I've noticed some things have to be adding weight...I dont really have much in my inventory other than quest items, and I'm at 200/365.