After reading this intriguing post, a certain scoundrel Delores Duende, GM thief and thief guild member, who is a stealthy knife weilding assasin went to test this out. She was very frustrated to find that she was unable to even peek at the belongings of all of the corses of players laying around. If the reports were true it would have been thieves paradise there. And according to her there were very many dead laying around. Could it be that this earlier ability to loot the fallen was squelched by the gods?