I have already said that i don't want to use enchanting! I don't have room for that!

Yea. Although i do believe its rather slow early on; anyway other than houses and the random piece of armor, gold isnt really useful in the game

i just loot. dungeons, houses corpses, people of cities. if it looks shiny i sell it

Serious question: What does "room" have to do with enchanting? I mean, if you're just tossing random cheap enchants on loot to make them sell for a bit more, it only takes a couple pounds (at most, say, 5) of inventory space for the empty & filled soul gems. Every time you head back to sell stuff off, you use the filled ones to enchant the loot, and sell.

(At least, that's how I imagine it would go. I just hoarded my soulgems for a rainy day. There's hundreds of the things in an end table in Breezehome....)


...oh, and I made the soul gem thing easy, by making a "Soul Trap, 1 second" sword as my general use weapon. No need to keep casting the spell.

I don't have ''room'' in my skill thingy
I am specializing on Sneak, one handed, pickpocket, alchemy and a bit of speech... That's already a lot and i don't want to begin spend time on finding enchants and stuff now
And i don't got that many soulgems either..

Alchemy is a great money spinner.

http://skyrim.melian.cc/?cmd=cmdSkyrimAlchemyWizard

Use that site to mix up all the effects you want. Then mix up any potions with two or more effects and sell them. More effects = more money.

Gets tedious saying this...Just play the game, explore as much as possible and loot everything you find. I have yet to profit from Smithing or Alchemy, but have made 65k just exploring.

I see! thanks

Buy reagents for alchemy, make potions with two or more properties, sell them and repeat. The eternal wheel of profit turns forever.

Go dungeon diving!

I did that for a while But i only lost money it seemed! But now when i got higher speech and know some better recipes maybe it'll go better

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Do DB questline you get 20,000 gold or more.

I'm level 25 at the moment and I have 50,000+ gold just from selling the stuff I pick up and don't want.

man just invest in speech, get that perk that lets you invest 500 gold, then go to riverwood and invest in Lucan Valerius at the Riverwood Trader (the idiot with the golden claw) and he gets 12,000 gold. then just sell everything because to get the invest perk, you get the perk that makes anyone you invest in a fence. you can get potentially 12,000 worth of gold every 48 hours, and as a thief im sure u will find stuff to sell, kill dragons whenever possible, they give alot, and giants and just loot every chest and body. plus it helps to get that steed stone for an extra 100 carrying cap. and the deep pockets perk in pickpocket i believe, not far in, only level 50, also gives u an additional 100 carrying cap. and the last speech perk adds 1000 gold to everybody in the game with stuff for sale (so maybe he gets 11,000 gold then lol) but u see my drift. a sneak thief's gotta get his speech game up man, c'mon!

boom, problem solved.

oh and i almost 4got, the part you will love as a thief, after you invest the 500 gold you can pickpocket it back if your skills is good enough! it goes into their pockets instead of the shops inventory lol, kinda funny when i put it that way haha. but ya, it works, so do it.

You gotta spend them to continue though...

So THAT's why they say ''Keep your blade sharp, but your tongue sharper''!
Thanks

What's yours is mine. What's mine is the merchants.

if you complete the dark brotherhood quest you earn 20k of gold.

Pick up dwemer scraps and smith them.

My mage has 500,000 gold. The key is to not spend it he makes extra from crafting dragon armor and enchanting it, though.

This haha. My pickpocket + alchemy are 100.
I can just combine 3 random ingredients for a potion worth 1,500+
Selling them is the hard part though lol

dude seriously, i have to say congrats. you may have started a 200+ post thread here, if everyone posts their preffered method of $ making this could go on a while, i love it though its good to get good tips for alt characters. i also chopped wood for 10 real time hours so i had 30,000 gold before even leaving Riverwood to start the golden claw lol, im obsessive like that. guess i like to have in game what i cant in life.. but that was tedious work though, and time consuming. better off just playing.

I started off not looking at my gold. Just completed all the main questlines (MQ, DB, TG, COW, Imperial, Companions) and spent as little gold as possible. I tried to get my carry weight as high as I could (fortify boots etc) and lifted the light valuable things from dungeons (potions, gems etc). There is also a perk that lets you carry +100.

By the time I had did all that (about 107 hours) I looked at my gold and had 340,000 gold.

Like others said Alchemy is a great way to make coin. Once my Alchemy was at 100, then just by picking ingredients from the wild or buying ingredients from alchemy shops, and making potions, then for 1-2 hours playing Skyrim you can make 30k-40k easy (atleast)

Final method. I haven't did this myself yet, but have read about it on the internet. If you collect all 24 'Stones of Barenziah' then you get something called "Prowlers Profit". Apparently, now when you loot a dungeon and search chests and urns etc then you find A LOT more jewels, flawless jewels etc. If this is true then making a million coins would be very possible! Could you imagine if everytime you opened an urn/chest etc you found a ruby, garnet, flawless sapphire, flawless diamond etc. You would be mega rich in no time!

If you do try and get all the "Stones of Barenziah" then read up on them first. Apparently bugs/glitches can occur while trying to get them (for example the one in the Thalmor Embassy, and not being able to get back in after you do that mission. Or sometimes people report their game says they have 25/24 Stones, and it glitches their game)

I will seek out the Stones with a new, specific, sneak/thief character.

your doin it wrong, Im at lvl 34, have 70k from just playing the game. Looting caves and corpses then selling the loot.

Some pretty good tips here! Thank you all