Yeah, shopkeepers in every town. Look for places named things like "the copius coinpurse" (found in the market district of the imperial city). Glad you found some though .


So what kind of character do you have going slipknot? Did you know you can make custom classes/character types? I have a custom Wizard class named Gandalf (of course), and an Aes Sedai character named Moraine (from Wheel of Time). I generally avoid the pre-made classes because with custom you can choose all your favorite skills/attributes.

Oh and gathering money can be a real pain in the ass. Personally I find it detracts from the character development, quest-finishing, guild rank rising etc. So if you really don't want to bother, just press the ~ key and type in player.additem 0000000F [add amount of money you want] (that's 7 zero's in the code)


Otherwise here's a few tips:

- When you get to higher levels, enchant the stuff you wear with permanent-effect spells from soul gems. This is really great, you can enchant a few items with "shield" for instance and have something like 60% permanent shielding.

Here's the thing though; Sigil stones are twice as good for enchanting items as any Grand soul gem with a grand soul (grand soul gems give you 10% shield, Sigil stones give you 20%). Wait till you're a higher level (in the 20's) so they give you their maximum effect. Then when you get to the end of a tower in an oblivion gate, you'll see Sigil stone floating above fire and all that jazz. Take it and you destroy the oblivion realm from your gate.

Quicksave right in front of the Sigil stone (F5) and take it. As soon as it says "Sigil stone added" press TAB and check it in your inventory. You'll get one with a randomly assigned effect. Keep loading and checking till you get the one you want, I suggest shield effect (you always get 2 effects, one for wearing items and one for attack items).
Then you just click the stone in your inventory to enchant items; you don't use the enchanting alters.

- Ayleid ruins generally have Varla Stones and Welkeind Stones. Welkeind stones you can click to recharch your magica, Varla Stones will recharge your magical weapons (which cost a LOT of money to recharge). Varla stones are also worth 1000 gold each.

- Take a gander at the "Haggle" option with merchants. The higher your mercantile skill, the higher you can set your buy/sell profit rate. At first try putting it around 50 or so.

- You can grind up your sneak skill by going into a corner where there's people around, but they won't look in that corner and see you. Then just press "Q" to go into autowalk, and walk away for an hour or two. When you come back your sneak skill will be 25 points higher (every 25 points you reach a new skill rank, and have to press "OK" to continue rising levels).

- Sneak around and shoot enemies with your arrows for sneak damage.

- Work on your strenght especially so you don't get encumbered by all the stuff you carry.