Fido I'm not knowledgeable on some of your questions, but I think I can answer 2, 3 & 4.

The battlefield hazards won't tell you how much damage they will do. But there should be a little debuff icon next to the affected character's portrait indicating how many turns the debuff will last. The best thing to do is simply try to stay out of the hazards as best you can while luring the enemies into it.

As far as I know, you can only pickpocket once. At least, this was the way it was in beta and I'm not sure if they've changed it or not.

I don't think there is a tutorial on crafting. Much of the crafting system is designed on experimentation and seeing just what you can come up with. Some things are not very intuitive so try crazy combinations and see what comes out.

Last edited by JoeBart; 04/07/14 03:51 PM.