But as far as I was concerned, the whole world was mine. And nobody ever stole your stuff, so as long as you remembered where you put it, you were all right.

My secret to getting rich in Morrowind was using Dwemer Coins for barter. Sell a lot of those to Creeper, and then a day later, trade him a 10K item for 5K in gold and 5K in Dwemer coins, and then some even more expensive ones, and finally trade him a 120,000G Daedric sword, and then trade back the Dwemer coins. After a few weeks in-game, you’ve got piles of cash. I never found the talking mud crab or I could have doubled my earnings rate. Just make sure to visit him every day!

I notice in Fallout they avoid the ridiculously over-priced items. Much harder to pwn the economy.

As for merchants, there is a way to get full value for your goods, but it takes a fairly large investment of time. Choose a specific merchant as your favorite (I like Creeper, upstairs in Ghorak Manor, Caldera). Unload your cheap stuff first, cleaning out their money and loitering around until their funds refresh. Then, when you start to unload the nicer stuff, for each item you sell, take back several less-valuable items you sold him before until the balance is equal to the merchant’s max. Now, sell back all the lesser trinkets you bought, and repeat with your next big-ticket item.

As your merchant develops a backlog of Sixth House bell hammers, glass daggers, and other sundries, you’ll be able to swap out value-for-value more quickly.

There’s also an exploit in Creeper’s and Mudcrab Merchant’s booze–buy the jugs from them as part of your exchange, then sell them back after their inventories refresh. Rinse and repeat a few times, and they’ll have over 100 jugs of each, which provides another quick way to get your loot’s value.

My home base was the second floor of the ogre house in Caldera where the Scamp was. He buys all armor, weapons, magic and Dwemer items for 1% above face value (and he has 5000 gold a day). I had a recall point permanently set right in front of him. I just left my stuff all over the floor where the ogres could walk all over it.

Last game I was playing I had a huge light collection set up in the room of all the lamps and torches that I found during my travels. It was blazingly bright in there.

Creeper was my best mate in Morrowind, what a trooper.

About Dark Brotherhood attacks – try DB Attack Mod (made by Avenger, modified by Hellwolve). It removes this annoyance until you’ve gained some popularity, like, becoming a Hortaror or a Nerevarine. Or, you can just go to Mournhold and tell them to fuck off.

Will now spend countless hours tinkering with the mods no doubt.

Cheers!