Summary
Septims make Nirn go round, but scrounging barrels for a few pennies and completing menial quests can be a bit deflating, especially in the early game when you’re just starting out. Luckily, theOblivion Remasteredcommunity has a few tips on how to fill your coffers.
You can always duplicate high-value loot and sell it, but that’s hardly in the spirit of things.
u/Cryptic_Archon started the discussion on the game’s subredditwhen they advised players to make a beeline for the first Ayelid Ruin you see after leaving the sewers. “Take the statue and sell it, and immediately start the Collector quest,” they explained. “After finishing his (frankly stupid and really long) quest, he’ll give you a frankly obscene amount of gold”. When you’re done, steal the statues back, sell them to a fence (which also means joining the Thieves' Guild), and you’ll make a tidy profit.
But as they admitted, it’s a “really long” quest with a lot of steps and dungeon delving — hardly a get-rich-quick scheme. u/Soulinx has an easier workaround: “Better to hit the farms outside of Skingrad and Chorrol, make potions and sell them. The farms' resources are back after 2 or 3 days. Plus it levels your alchemy and mercantile skills” (you even get a basic mortar and pestle in the tutorial dungeon).
“No Cheese Methods”
Or, if alchemy isn’t your thing, you could always become a poisoned apple tradesman. The Evil Queen has to buy her supply from someone, right? “Go to Fort Farragut,” u/Isakd123 said. “There’s a cellar inside a big tree stump, inside a crate there you can get 10 poisoned apples, they sell for 200 gold each. They respawn each third day but you must travel to another location and wait.”
Become what I call a ‘garbage juice vendor’. Collect literally every alchemy ingredient you may find. Mkae a ton of shi**y potions (ie garbage juice) and sell them to the rube at the Merchant’s Inn.
Another popular suggestion is joining the group of vampire hunters in the Imperial City and farming dust, which is worth around 250 septims each when sold back to them. Though you have to be level ten, which is hardly early game. Alternatively, as noted by u/Hannibaal09, you can “Rob the arena winnings box at night” for a quick 500 septims, before (as suggested by u/Valuable_Ad9554) joining the Thieves' Guild and cleaning out the shops at the market district.
If all of that sounds too complex, though, and you want to return to the bliss of alchemy and potions, then u/RedKite008 put forward that the best way to do it is to join the Mages' Guild and steal all their expensive alchemy kits and books. It takes a bit more legwork than circling the same few farms, but you’ll get an even more valuable supply out of it.
But if you want a more in-depth explanation on the best ways to make gold in Oblivion,then you can always check out our handy guide.
