How to get gold?

[Degen]

I only have 1k gold and all of the rare items and skillbooks the vendors sell are costly

[Terrible Timing]

Steal it.

[Greywolf]

Take it you aren't very far in the game? Most of my gold comes from selling junk and I pick up anything with a gold value, you should be able to get a fair bit of gold fairly quickly if you are economical.

However other tricks to maximising your gold involve having at least 1 character with thievery, you can pick the pockets of vendors and steal the skillbooks you need as well as good items and gold, that said you can only pickpocket a certain ammount (determined either by gold value or item weight, whichever bar fills up first) and you can only pickpocket each NPC once with each individual character, if you have 2 characters in your party with thievery then you can double dip but that is up to you.

Other trick is to look out for junk items that sell for quite a bit, gold cups and paintings sell for quite a lot (however as far as I can tell the paintings on the starting ship dont sell for anything), weapons and armour sell for a bit so sell what you cant use.

I take it you must be fairly early in the game so you probably wont be able to get all the skillbooks you want at your current state, just do a few quests and level up a bit, loot what you can and soon you should have enough for a more fleshed out arsenal.

[hmmm]

Make sure to only buy and sell using a designated character with high barter skill, you can basically get half of later on

[Crow]

1. pickup and give trash worth below 5-10 or below 30 in act 2 away for free to a rich vendor until he reaches 100.

2. make sure the follower who gets reputation 100 has bartering maximized.

3. i the future simply purchase/sell from him primarily and you will earn a ton more gold.

note: you should also have ur primary looting character maximize luck as you often find gold in empty boxes then or even gear.