User blog comment:Redexx/Skyrim's many faults and upsides. **My take**/@comment-5773740-20130101215142/@comment-4057437-20130103105602

When we play Oblivion the Hero gets very rich the same way our Dragonborn's do, through Alchemy. With a little patience, one can collect enough ingredients for free to raise their alchemy skill to the point where they can walk into an achemy shop with their gear, buy all the shop's ingredients, mix them into potions on the spot, and sell them for a profit. Once this capability is reached, money no longer will be a problem. In Skyrim it is even easier as the gear (alchemy lab) is in the shop, free to use during business hours.

The only game we play where this is difficult is Morrowind. Alchemy in Morrowind doesn't work well as recipes don't always work (the same ingredients work the first time, not the second and then do work a few tries later).