Hickory: None. I've never done any of those things -- master thievery potions are not easy to come by, and limited in quantity -- but if I wanted money bad enough to even consider something like that, I'd sooner just use the console.

dtgreene: Also, master thievery potions are not limited in the long run; the rogue's Alchemy HLA can make more.

OneFiercePuppy: Money was never really a problem for me. Pretty much the first thing I did most playthroughs was go into the sewers and knock over the adventuring group that attacks you there (they have some solid equipment), then hit the slavers (sometimes it was slavers first, then sewer dudes) and finally go barge into the house with the high-level party on the upper floor (first floor guarded by...uh...Djinn? Efreet?). At that point, you have all the gear you'll need to get to endgame, and the other stuff for sale, while sometimes nice, is never necessary.

BG2 never had a money crunch, to me.

dtgreene: 1. Drinking a bunch of Master Thievery potions, then finding a fence you can sell stuff to, and repeatedly selling and stealing the same items.

2. Find the Sahagin merchant, accessible in the optional area between Spellhold and the Underdark. Then sell items and buy them back, paying less than you got for selling the item in the first place.

3. Using the item swap glitch to underflow your gems, then selling the 65k gems obtained from the glitch.

I personally like number 3, but then again, I happen to like exploitable glitches and this is also the funniest of the 3.

jsidhu762: Cash was never an issue in SoA, and in ToB I had more money than I knew what to do with.

dtgreene: Here's a question: is this still true if you make regular use of wands and Resurrection Rods and use the shops to recharge them?

I actually did have issues buying spells for my mages when I played the game. Sometimes even one gem underflow was not enough.

Hickory: If you are using wands and rods to that extent, then you are *mis*-using them. There are 2 rods of resurrection to be found in SoA, each with 10 charges, not to mention that your priest can raise the dead. If you need to recharge 20 restores, even after utilising your cleric, then you are doing something wrong. Same goes for wands and spellcasters. Money is absolutely no object in either SoA or ToB.

dtgreene: The way I actually use the Rod of Resurrection is that I have Aerie use Vhailor's Helm and have the clone use the Rod to avoid using up the real Rod.