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Trophy method[]

Here's a fairly quick and easy method used to get gold, without having to kill enemies or wait for rent.

  1. Buy a house. Doesn't matter if you upgrade it or not as long as it has a trophy plaque.
  2. Put up your most expensive trophy.
  3. Sell the house
  4. Break down the door and retrieve your trophy
  5. Buy the house

Repeat until you have as much gold as you want. This work best on the Knothole Glade house --JonTheMon 18:19, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Money Making Guide[]

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A great way of making money in very large sums is the real-estate business! Now, if you've played Fable II, you would have noticed that the possibility of having a real-estate empire is a way of making big money. Although, if you've only played the first game, you have to figure it out for yourself. The idea is simple: Approach the lease on a sign usually by the front door of the home, buy the house, then rent it out and voilà! You've got yourself a nice way of quick cash. But here is a quick walkthrough before you start running berserk on the different towns:

(This walkthrough is for Fable.)

The best town to start off in is Oakvale. The reason it's the best town is because the houses are spread far apart from each other, so the risk of getting caught by the guards is smaller than if you were trying this somewhere else. So, wait outside a house during night-time. If everyone is in the house, the door is closed and you can't open it.

Also, make sure that no one sees you, meaning that the surveillance eye should be completely closed. If a villager sees you, they'll run for the guards, and you'll receive a fine. It's very costly if you're caught, and waiting outside the town zone just takes up time, so make completely sure that you're not being watched.


A third demand for doing this is having a quite powerful weapon. It should be powerful enough to kill a villager in one hit, and to break open a door in one swing as well. If it's any slower, the family members can run off and tell the guards what you have done! Note: To buy houses in Bowerstone you must hire an assasin (there is one by the Bowerstone tavern) then attack the owner and the guard will join in (he has a weapon) and he will kill the owners.

With all this information, let's get going!

  1. Wait outside until the door is closed and you're out of the visible range of any peering eyes.
  2. Break open the door with your weapon and kill EVERYONE in the house. If anyone survives they'll run to the guards.
  3. When everyone is dead, exit the house and interact with the new "For Sale"-sign outside the front door. (On houses with stairs to the front door, the signs can be placed at the base of the stairs.) Buy the house and rent it out immediately. If you're wealthy enough, upgrade the interior before renting it out. Since you have smashed the door, you're free to enter the house and sleep in the bed, even though it's for rent. Later, when a new door has been put in, if you try to break it open and use the bed, the family renting could run for the guards and charge you with a fine.
  4. Sleep in the bed for three days, that means using the bed six times.
  5. After three days, during the day, go outside and collect the rent. It appears as money bags in front of the house sign. Then go back in and sleep again. Repeat this several times, and you'll end up with a lot of money. To speed it up, do this on another house again. Later, when you own the whole town of Oakvale, you can buy barns and stores as well, and you've upgraded all your interiors, you can collect quite a sum from the houses. Around 13000 golds. You can expand to other towns as well, such as Bowerstone or Knothole Glade. Note that it's harder to do this in Knothole Glade, and next to impossible in Bowerstone. But keep trying and you'll make it.

NOTE: If you want to remain good, you can have the villagers follow you out of town, leave them, and return and the building will be up for sale without killing them.

Fable and Fable TLC: All the methods for making easy gold[]

In Fable and Fable: TLC, it is possible to make large amounts of money quickly by following the alternative methods:


1. Stealing method

Go to a shop. With the steal expression, steal an item on display (Make sure nobody's seeing you). You can even sell them to the same shop-keeper for the whole amount. Repeat the process to make a lot of money. To rob the entire shop (As long as the shop is indoors), have the shopkeeper follow you to the tavern and give him about 3 beers. Once he's stumbling around drunk he won't be able to make his way back to the shop and you can take anything you'd like as long as no one barges in. Always make sure the eye indicator shows no one is watching you.

You can steal plate gloves and boots this way, entire chain sets, augments, and basic potions

Note: If anyone sees you while stealing, you won't acquire the item and will be fined if you *let them* report you. You will get evil points everytime you steal an item. It's also worth mentioning that the cost of the item makes it take longer to steal said item.

2. Trading method

An easy way to make money is to master Guile. Once you master guile, Traders will sell goods to you at a lower rate, but will buy them back at higher rates. If you keep repeating this process, you can end up with a lot of cash in few minutes. You'll always get better prices from traveling traders than in town no matter how low your guile. The traders in Twinblade's Camp and the the Darkwoods camp have better prices all around.

Basically the economy in Fable 1 is meant to work on a supply-and-demand basis. The less stock they have of a certain item, the higher it's going to cost you; but the more they're willing to pay you to sell it to them. With that in mind, each trader also gets their stocks filled every few days and their stock depletes the closer they are to restocking their shelves. The best time to buy is after their shipment comes and the best time to sell is just before their shipment. You get better prices if you by in bulk. There are also Items that they're having shortages on and will pay more for.

The economy system is fairly easy to game with every single trader in Fable 1 because they have no maximum gold they can give to you. All you have to do is buy their entire stock of ANY item (as long as it's 25 or more in each deal) and sell it back to them. Depending on how expensive the item's base price is (50 gold or more), the more money you'll make each time you sell. You'll need at least 3 guile to make worthwhile. If you're unpopular with people or have low guile, this works better when you own the shop in question - you'll always get decent prices both ways no matter what.

Recommendations: Buy gift items cheap from traveling traders and Darkwood/Twinblade, then HORDE them untill you have at least 100. Specifically, you'll want to find items in-town stores are having shortages on. When you have you're horde, got to the shop and buy however many of the item in question from them in bulk, then sell it back to them in bulk.  Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.


3. Trophy mounting method

The trophies you earn in the game aren't only for getting renown, they're also for making profits! You can buy *marital houses* from some towns. After you buy the marital house, make sure to upgrade it until it has a trophy mount (The upgrades themselves contibute nothing to the overall profits in this method. The Trophy mounts are key) Buy a house, mount a trophy (You do this like you would an expression), get out, and sell the house. The doors of the house will now be closed. Go ahead and break them down (This is a crime, btw), then ick up your trophies and repeat the process. The more expensive the Trophy, the more money you'll make

Note: You will get evil points for breaking the door. The door will stay broken until you use your guild seal or leave the area.

Note2: If you break down the door before you sell it, it will not lower the price but alow you to not earn a fine for vandalism.

Note3: With the Oakvale marital home, it is possible to stand inside at the edge of the doorframe and angle the camera to use the sign without getting shut ouside, saving the trouble of moving and breaking of doors.

4. Stealing the houses/shops method

This is recommended for a later time in the game. This method is just brute force. Get into a town and kill the owner of a house / shop / tavern. The property will be available for buying as soon as the owner dies. Buy it and rent it out. You'll get rental profit according to the value of the property. Though this method may seem ineffective at first, it actually gives infinite profits (Shops make VERY little profit, however; you'll simply get better trading options as the owner)

The best way to do this is by being stealthy. All you have to do is have a weapon that one-shots villagers and kill them when no one is watching.

Alternatively you can just massacre people and buy up properties as they become available, however it's advised to keep the guards alive because they'll be steadily replaced with upgraded guards that are a lot more troublesome. (Assassin's rush, Slow Time, or a low-level Battle Charge will do the trick.)

Finally, if you're worried about alignment, all you have to do is hire mercenaries. Said merc's alignment doesn't matter; they'll defend you from any hostile enemies. Just be ready with Heal-life spells. Always keep in mind that hitting anybody in town is considered an evil act.

Recommendations: The properties in Oakvale are of the lowest average value and properties in Hook Coast are the highest.

Note: You will get evil points for killing civilians and guards. In Taverns, you have to kill both the owner and the barmaid, to make it available for buying. Don't worry if you accidentally kill the bards or the game-masters in Taverns; they'll re-spawn later.

Note 2: This is best done after completing the arena (If you kill Whisper in it). That way you'll have enough gold to start buying houses with.

5. The Pub Games Method

This is a very easy way to get tons of cash and doesn't require violence or cheats. The Game-master never runs out of gold, so you can play as long as you please. Unlike other methods you don't need high Guile for Trading or Stealth and you can do this as soon as you reach Bowerstone.

Card Pairs In Bowerstone/Snowspire: Be systematic. Start at the bottom left card and move either horizontally or vertically. If it helps, say the value of the cards out loud.

Blackjack in Darkwood/The Arena: Fable's version of blackjack is far more stacked against you than video blackjack at a casino or any other game. Aces are are rare, and that alone completely ruins any basic strategy. I wouldn't recomend it.

Card-Sorting in Knothole Glade: Easily the simplest pub game. Suits don't matter at all and Ace is low,

6. Prostitution

In TLC, you can become a prostitute at Darkwood Bordello after you finish the Trader Escort quest. Shave off all your facial hair, buy a full dress getup, and solicit a Darkwood Bordello prostitute. Afterwards, you'll want to search the dressers next to the bed for a red wig. Put on the dress and the wig, then talk to Madame Minzche to be hired. Grope gives you 1,000 gold every time you sleep with him and never gets tired; but if you want you can ask the visiting johns if they want a go for 200 gold. You'll need to be attractive to entice the Johns, but Grope doesn't care at all.

Fable Shop Exploit #2 (TLC)[]

It is possible to gain massive amounts of gold quickly by using this exploit. It does, however, only work in Fable: The Lost Chapters because of a change in some minor scripts and features between the games. An added bonus to this exploit is that as your Guile skill increases, so do your profits. A way to explain how this works is: Shops pay more for items they don't have much of and less for items they have a lot of, this also applies for selling prices. So buy items at a low price in bulk(they all cost a low amount of money because the seller has a lot of these items) and then sell the same items back all at once(the seller pays more than you did because they have fewer/none in their inventory). This gains you high amounts of profit.

To do this follow These Steps:

  1. Go to a general store(not the guild because of its tendency to rip you off).
  2. Look through their inventory and find the items with a lot in stock(for example 100 diamonds)
  3. Because there are a lot of the item, the price will be lower. Buy as much of the item as possible(if you cant afford much of it then start with something of a lower price like cider crates).
  4. Sell all of the items back to the vendor and you will have made a profit, this can be VERY high depending on quantity and what item it is.

The Oakvale General Store works best for this exploit because it has a high amount of gems in its inventory and pays better than most other shops, possibly because you are from there. --Vossyan 19:00, December 23, 2009 (UTC)

Here is a way to make this much more useful. Start gathering things early in the game. empty out all shops you find of cheap items. After you've gathered a few shops worth of things and have done the above strategy a few times do the same to more expensive items. If there isn't enough bulk in your inventory or the shop don't do this until you have, lets say, 15-30 items. Even if you resell an item (such as apples) for a small amount (2-4 gold) if you have enough bulk you will get a profit because you'll get it for very cheap (1-2 gold n apples.) --Stormcrow 7:24 August 14, 2010 (UTC)

You can employ this strategy as soon as you have access to the Bowerstone South general merchant and, with a little patience, make literally thousands of gold per minute right at the beginning of the game. Try starting with green apples, then move to apple pies as soon as you can afford to buy the whole stack. To speed things up even more, head to Oakvale and use gemstones (you'll need at least $15-20k to make the initial investment in a good stack of gemstones).

Side note: this will give you a lot of skill XP as well, but if you want to max out your skill stats really early in the game, try this: Go to the Hobbe Cave or anywhere that you can get your combat multiplier up to around 20 (or more!). Once your combat multiplier is as high as you can get it, quickly teleport to Oakvale and run to the general merchant (make sure it is during the day and the shop is open!). Then power trade gemstones for as long as your patience lasts. All of the skill XP you gain during this session will be multiplied by your combat multiplier (of 8 or more, hopefully), and you can very quickly gain more skill XP than it is even possible to spend. (Note: the same thing is possible with traveling merchants, in Greatwood for instance, but you have to rely on luck to find a general merchant so Oakvale is probably easier.)

Arena Exploit[]

Another way to make A LOT of money and Experience in Fable (Around 16000 per turn, Lots more for Experience) is exploiting the Arena quest. Start the quest and keep beating up the waves of enemies and gaining money until you get to the 2 Rock Trolls, simply beat them and return inside the Arena quarters (You should have about 16000 gold bulked up right now). Save your game (Hero save) and then Load it. You should start just outside the Arena and the quest hasn't begun yet but you have that 16000 gold and huge amounts of experience still. Repeat this and become very rich and powerful quickly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.238.235.70 (talkcontribs) . Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Hook Coast[]

(I originally added this entry quite a few years ago.  Now, having done a recent Fable Anniverysary edition playthrough{3/2019}, I thought I'd try to improve it.) An easy, honest, and fast way to make a lot of money becomes available once players have discovered Hook Coast.  The armor/weapon trader there constantly sells Master weapons at a low price, and once players can afford at least one of these they should definitely begin taking advantage of this opportunity: having a high guile skill level will absolutely increase profits, but this endeavor will be worthwhile regardless.  To begin, players need to travel to Knothole Glade and check out what Master weapons are 'in demand'(or wanted)at the armor/weapon trader's shop; then players use either the Guild Seal or the nearby Cullis Gate to fast travel to Hook Coast.  If the shops there are closed, players should arrange to stay in the area until they open.  Once they do, players should go to the armor/weapon shop to see what the inventory status is, and how long it will be until the next delivery.  If the shop's inventory is full, the prices will be at their lowest and players should buy as many of the Master weapons that are 'in demand' or wanted in Knothole Glade as they can afford.  Initially this may seem like a very risky and foolish thing to do because players may have to spend almost all of the gold they have acquired thus far in the game just to buy one Master weapon...  Players may literally exit the shop afterwards practically broke, but this leap of faith needs to be taken...  It was an investment and it will pay off handsomely.  Once players have bought whatever they can afford, they then fast travel back to Knothole Glade and sell their item or items to the armor/weapon trader there; players can typically make $1,000 to $5,000 or more in profit from each Master weapon sold.  If this process is repeated over and over, eventually players will be able to afford to buy four, five, or even six or more Master weapons at a time in Hook Coast and sell them in Knothole Glade all at once, earning large sums of gold in a single day: at any point in the process players can buy Master weapons that aren't in demand and still make a profit, just not as much of one.  Now, the game's economic system is realistic, and so as players buy at Hook Coast and sell in Knothole Glade repeatedly, the supply and demand market for Master weapons in both locations will change: buying prices in Hook Coast will increase, and selling prices in Knothole Glade will decrease to the point where players will either just break even or actually take a loss.  This doesn't happen quickly, by the way, but gradually, so there is plenty of time in this process for players to make a lot of money.  Players can avoid the increase in subsequent buying prices in Hook Coast by purchasing Master weapons there only when the armor/weapon trader's inventory is full...  Patient players who are really interested in maximizing their profits should probably try this strategy(this player has never taken the time to do so).  However, the question is whether or not the demand market for Master weapons in Knothole Glade will ever return to 'normal', as it were.  If enough time passes, and players refrain from selling him any more Master weapons, will the armor/weapon trader there eventually sell enough Master weapons for this to happen?  This player does not know at the moment, and frankly taking the time to find the answer to this question could turn out to be quite a mission in and of itself.   Incidentally, a virtually identical situation exists earlier in the game between the armor/weapon traders in Knothole Glade and Oakvale.  Even though obsidian weapons are not in demand or wanted by the armor/weapon trader in Oakvale, if players buy obisidian weapons(full inventory status, of course)in Knothole Glade, they can be sold in Oakvale at a profit.  Now the profits are measured in the hundreds, rather than thousands, of units of gold, but it is still a good way earlier in the game to make some fast money.  Now there are things that are wanted by the armor/weapon trader in Oakvale, but that has probably already been mentioned elsewhere on this page.

Diamonds from Bowerstone North to Oakvale[]

As soon as you beat the Arena and can enter Bowerstone North, you gain access to Drago's shop, which sells diamonds cheaply. Buy the lot and sell them at a massive profit in Oakvale, where diamonds are "Wanted".  

In my case, it was a 40,000 profit with a single trip. 65 diamonds for 263 gold each, for a total of 17k gold or so; you should have that much from the Arena alone. Selling at 880 gold each, that's a 57k sale. 

You can repeat this once Drago fully restocks his shop. The previous operation will have killed the price in Oakvale, but some travelling traders also pay very well for diamonds. (Look for the kind of trader who has emeralds for sale.) --Markus Ramikin (talk) 08:22, May 15, 2015 (UTC)

Fable II Methods[]

Economy and Getting Started[]

The best way to start getting an income in Fable II is to buy and rent out houses. But for most players it can be difficult to get enough money to even buy a house in town, so what do you do?.

The trick is to realize that you dont actually have to upgrade your weapons the first time Theresa tells you to, instead you could go back to the Gypsy Camp in Bower Lake region and buy and rent out a caravan, the cheapest one there costs about 913 gold and then set the rent according to your purity or corruption level. Another way is to rent out your caravan and then adjust the rent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Myth723 (talkcontribs)

Shop Exploit[]

There is a shop exploit in Fable II that is quite similar to one of the above exploits for Fable:TLC and it is simple to do from the first time you enter Bowerstone as an adult onwards *This method requires some money to get started but not much*.

  1. If you are a fresh out of the Gypsy Camp then start by earning some gold in the Blacksmith(Enough to buy the jewellery stall and most of the items in it, around 10000, which is about 10 minutes work in the blacksmith for an average person). If you are not a new character then just buy any shop that sells expensive goods that you can afford(weapon shops work well for this, especially Bowerstone and Knothole Island).
  2. Buy the shop you want
  3. You then get a "Shop owner discount" which is around 39% off. Buy as many items in the shop as you can(The more expensive ones, you want to make a decent profit so you're not there forever).
  4. Sell the shop.
  5. Sell all the items that you bought back to the shop.
  6. Repeat as needed.
  7. The more expensive the item, the quicker you will accumulate wealth. for example, the Diamond of Sorrow is worth 100,000 gold. If you sell this for 100,000, then purchase the shop, you can buy it back for about 60,000, giving you an excellent profit. NOTE: this will only work for players who have already made some money, as the diamond is only obtainable after you have bought Brightwood Tower.

--Vossyan 19:34, December 23, 2009 (UTC)

  • Or
  1. Steal from the general store in bowerstone a couple of times.
  2. While using minor sales tricks to earn up enough gold to buy out the General stores wares once.
  3. Sleep for a week.
  4. A shortage will occur but make sure to check, until it does sleep.
  5. It should be the General store. Buy everything you can from the gift stall (the higher the discount the better).
  6. Sell it to the store.
  7. Proceed to buy everything in the town except weapons and augments.
  8. Once the stores are depleted sleep a day.
  9. Check to see if the stores have stock.
  10. Clean out all stores again selling to the General store.
  11. Repeat until either they are out of stock or the General Store shortage runs out of days.
  12. Create another general store shortage buy buying them out daily.
  13. Buy all of the stock from the General store you sold to (bigger the discount the better).
  14. Sell it all again to that general store that has a shortage.
  • This works better with weapons stores but costs more to create the initial shortages.
  • If you really want to make the money create a shortage in Bowerstone's weapons store and repeat the process using Oakfield or Bowerstone Old Town as the buying points because their weapons stalls are decently cheap to buy.
  • The true best use is to use the general store to earn up enough to do the weapons store.
  • At some points you can even get a one hundred percent price increase and then you can even buy from fairfax gardens.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.95.144.127 (talkcontribs)

Trophy Method[]

Just as in Fable and Fable:TLC, it is possible to earn money using your trophies.

  1. Buy a house with one or more trophy mounts.
  2. Break the door down to avoid vandalism charges after you sell it.
  3. Put up your trophy(ies).
  4. Sell the house.
  5. Go back in to the house and take the trophy(ies) back.
  6. Buy the house back and repeat as necessary.
  7. If your having trouble finding a house with a trophy slot, the one between the book shop and the potion shop in bowerstone has one up stairs!
  8. The House of Hard Knocks in Bowerstone Old Town has trophy mounts.
  9. Farmer Giles' Mill has a hidden trophy mount above the entrance door.

--Vossyan 19:34, December 23, 2009 (UTC)

The Weapons Dealer[]

Selling weapons is an easy way to make lots of gold early in Fable 2--legitimately--by buying low and selling high. Where to buy? From any source that sells for less than the base price of the weapon: Bowerstone Market Blacksmith, Bowerstone Old Town Weapons Stall (assuming you followed the good path in the opening), Oakfield Weapons Stall, travelling weapons traders, etc.. Where to sell? Fairfax Gardens, where traders always pay more than the base price. Always sell at Fairfax Gardens, unless one of the other weapons dealers is experiencing a shortage.


Save up enough gold and buy a few weapons from the Marketplace blacksmith or Old Town stall. Then go to Fairfax Gardens and sell them. You will make a nice profit. Butter up your sources using expressions before you buy; you'll get better prices if they like you. Repeat this process until you have enough gold to buy one of the weapon stalls, but be sure to have enough gold remaining to continue buying and selling weapons after you've purchased it.


Owning the businesses where weapons are sold gives you a 39% shop owner discount in addition to any sales in effect. This significantly improves profit margins and should be Goal Two of the weapons dealer. The weapons stalls in Old Town and Oakfield are much cheaper than the blacksmith in Bowerstone Market, so it makes sense to buy these first. Once you've acquired all three, profits should really start rolling in. Later in the game after returning from The Spire, you can buy the blacksmiths in Westcliff and Bloodstone, expanding your sources.


Master weapons start to appear when you arrive in Westcliff. Once you can afford to buy and sell these, your wealth will skyrocket. It is very easy to become a multi-millionaire as a weapons dealer, before competing in the Crucible for the first time.

Elindarion 19:47, January 21, 2010 (UTC)

Old Town Discount[]

For Fable II: You can easily make money by the time you get to Bowerstone Old Town. if you gave derek the guard the warrants as a child, you get a permanent 50% discount in old town, what you do is buy all weapons from the weapon shop, use the inn to outrest the blacksmith sale, you then sell all weapons you buy from old town at the blacksmith in the market, just keep going back through old town weapons shop and the blacksmith, you can make a lot of money easily, i had 50k before i even went to oakfield and it took around 30mins-1hour (that 50k doesnt include houses i bought, so really i made around 90k), when the shop runs out of space, rest in the inn for 7 days (this may corrupt you) this was done when the shop only had steel at max, as you get further into the game there should be Master weaponry by some time, meaning even more and faster money.

To avoid Corruption, because you will be making a load of gold buy all the random houses in Bowestone and set the rent to -100%, this will make you pure, but if you're Corrupt... you can always make some extra gold buy setting the houses rent to +100%... Happy Merchanting :)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Baptiejames (talkcontribs)

Rent[]

This is the easiest way to get gold,firstly your going to need to own a house or shop on Fable II and set the rent to +100% (you don't have to but for best results do) turn on your Xbox 360 and set the time to 2005 and then play Fable II, save it and return to dashboard. then set the time ahead 2 months (I took the time to calculate it out, I was bored) and then simply play Fable II and wait about 15 seconds and you should get about 100 times your rent earned in gold depending on how many houses or shops you own and you will earn considerably more if your rent prices are +100%, this can be repeated as many times as you like, you will be able to get Castle Fairfax in no time. If you want to you can set the time back to 2005, play fable II, then hook up to Xbox live and the clock will auto reset and you will get your money for the "years" passed.

You can also change you're time zone if for some reason you cant unplug you're internet cord. It works on the same principle as the change the clock.

This method will not work if you are connected to Xbox Live. The reason being that the clock auto-synches to the server and does not allow for changing. It is a good idea to set it from 2005-2025, If you really want money.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.144.40 (talk) . Please sign your posts with ~~~~ —Edited by 76.14.244.102 (talk)

Henchman Exploit[]

For this to work you need at least two profiles, with a save for Fable 2 on each. This also works best if one of the profiles has finished the game or is at least very rich. Simply play the rich save and have the one that you want the money for come in a and be the henchman. Make sure you set it so that the henchman gets all money in the settings and sell all the items in the inventory as well as any houses or shops. Then you quit with the henchman then quit without saving, thereby keeping all the items you sold.

Note:

You can also buy items then sell them back to get even more gold.


Console Clock Exploit[]

Since Fable II real estate accumulates money when your console is off by reading your console's internal clock, there is a very easy way to exploit this. First, disconnect your console from Xbox Live by pulling your ethernet cable/disabling your wi-fi adapter. Then set your console's internal clock to the earliest time possible, Jan. 1st 2005, from your console's clock settings. Go into Fable II, buy a few pieces of real estate, and save your game. Exit to the dashboard, and before starting Fable II, set your console's internal clock to the latest time possible, Dec. 31st 2050. Press the A button to accept the change, then either return to the dashboard or use the Xbox guide button to start Fable II. You'll have accumulated all the gold from your "20 year period" in about 5 minutes! You can repeatedly do this to earn more gold and after you're done, reconnect your console to Xbox Live and your clock settings should return to normal.

Fable III Methods[]

For more methods specifically related to the second half of the game, see The Weight of the World

Real Estate[]

Pretty much all the methods here will be ways of getting initial seed money to buy real estate, as real estate is the most efficient legitimate means of making money by far. Real estate will become available through the Road to Rule fairly early in the game with the Landlord Pack (houses) and the Entrepreneur Pack (shops).

When buying real estate you should keep a few things in mind:

  1. Buy a house in Brightwall as soon as possible, as this will start to generate gold so you can quickly buy more properties.
  2. Start with houses; they're cheaper and the returns are generally slightly better (though you'll make more money from the shops once you own all properties).
  3. You will need to repair your all houses approximately once every 6 hours of play time. Houses that are at 0% repair state generate no rent.
  4. If you own a shop you'll get a 25% discount there no matter what the shopkeeper thinks of you.
  5. If you increase the rent/shop prices, then people will start to hate you.
  6. You earn your money every 5 minutes that the game is actually running, if the controller becomes disconnected then that doesn't count, but being in the pause menu does.
  7. In the Xbox 360 version, there is no "Repair All" button, so once you have enough money for the end of the game (800k-10m depending on the type of character you're playing) you may want to sell all the houses, you won't need the money and it's less of a hassle if you don't have to keep repairing them. (PC version does have a 'repair all' function, as long as at least one house is under 90% condition.)
  8. You can't buy houses in areas you haven't visited yet or houses that are involved in a quest you haven't done yet.

Chicken Races[]

The Chicken Races become available after doing the quest Chicken Chaser (available as part of the third task at Brightwall) and waiting a bit. Please note that your choices during the quest don't matter and that the odds listed are currently wrong, though this may change in a future update.

Once the races become available you'll want to save your game and pick your a chicken, personally I recommend Mr Cluckles, he wins fairly often and gives a 3/1 return. Then follow this method:

  1. Max bet your chicken
  2. If your chicken wins, save and go back to 1 if you don't have at least 30k
  3. If your chicken lost, sign out and then back in again and return to step 1

once you have 30k you'll want to change your bets as follows

  • The Colonel: 5k
  • The Avenger: 0
  • Two Wings Timmy: 10k
  • Mostly Slow Joe: 5k
  • Mr Cluckles: 10k

If Avenger wins you'll want to sign out and in again, if Mr Cluckles wins you'll break even and if anyone else wins you'll make a decent amount of cash. Once you have more than 30k, start buying buildings. You don't need more than 30k for this method so the rest of your money might as well be working for you.

Trading[]

This method will require you to make friends with several shopkeepers and can be fairly time consuming to start because of the relationship quests.

The basic method is to:

  1. Make friends with the pawnbroker and whichever shopkeeper is selling what the pawnbroker is currently buying
  2. Buy everything you can at a discount that the pawnbroker is short on
  3. Sell everything at a markup while keeping track of how much money the pawnbroker has, be sure to stop selling when he's running out of money
  4. Sleep until the pawnbroker has money again
  5. Repeat steps 1-4
  6. Whenever you have the money, buy a shop that doesn't have a friendly shopkeeper until those are all bought and then buy whichever shop is selling what the pawnbroker wants
  7. buy the pawnbroker

using this method you have the potential to buy goods at 75% off (%50 sale + %25 owner discount) and sell them for 125% (%100 markup + %25 shop owner markup). which will allow you to drain the pawnbroker quickly and regularly. Combined with your shop income it shouldn't be long before you own every building currently available to you.

Jobs[]

Simple and straight forward:

  1. Pick a job (Blacksmithing pays the most the quickest). (But, then again, Level 5 Lute Player earns the most at Multiplier 10 however this could 1-2 hours at best)
  2. Do the job until you can buy a house
  3. Do the job until you can buy another house
  4. Repeat 2 and 3 until you have all the houses and shops or you get too bored to continue, hopefully by this point you'll have enough houses/shops that they'll pay for your future purchases.

Silver Keys[]

This method is probably the most time consuming but on the first playthrough it can also be the most interesting.

  1. Find silver keys, 10 or more preferably
  2. Open Silver Chests, many will contain money (such as the one in Brightwall)
  3. Use the money to buy houses

This method has the added bonus that you'll probably find lots of dig/dive spots and normal treasure chests while looking for the silver keys, allowing you to amass a small fortune even before you start opening chests. With just a little effort you can find 10 silver keys by the time you open the music box and then can open the chest of money just outside of Brightwall Academy. There is one key in the Bowerstone Castle garden, another one in the Catacombs, three in Mistpeak Valley, three more in Brightwall Village and two keys can be found in the Reliquary.

Spoiler[]

If you plan to use this method then I'd suggest skipping as many side quests as possible until after the rebellion.

When you become monarch but before you rule on your brother's fate:

  1. Go to your sanctuary's treasury and drain the royal treasury by going up to the ledger, pressing A, pressing X, pressing A and then choosing to drain all of it. This will negatively impact your alignment, but only temporarily.
  2. Go to the Demon Door at Sunset House and get your 1 million gold
  3. Buy as many buildings as you can and use the income to buy more buildings while you do side quests
  4. Sell all properties to gain a large quantity of cash.
  5. Be sure to restock the treasury before the end of day 121

Idle System[]

  • A very, very easy way of earning gold is to buy up businesses, raise the profits to highest and just leave your system idle overnight. With just a few shops and houses, it isn't unheard of to earn millions in one night. However, this method may cause your console to overheat. to prevent this, leave your console idle for no more than two and a half hours, then, you will need to save and quit, leaving the console to cool for around thirty to forty minutes.

$2 Million Gold and a Relic Weapon Too[]

  • To use this technique you need two things. First a game save that has acquired all 50 Silver Keys. Let's call him the Keymaster. Next you need a second controller. Create a new profile on your console and begin a new game. Join the new game with the Keymaster and walk to the 50 key chest in the castle garden. Have the guest walk up to the chest and open it. The new game will get 1 of the 4 relic weapons and $2 million gold and the guest gets a Rare Gem. Have the first player give the weapon and 20 gifts of $100,000 gold to the Keymaster. If the guest has a dog with level 5 exploration you can dig up Logan's and Walter's portrait and give them as well. Which relic weapon is dependent on the dummy profile's name, so if you want to experiment a little with profile names, you can stock up on whatever relic you get with a particular profile name. Never buy the Elegant or Practical, Prince or Princess Suit again. Plus if the female hero tries on both outfits you can have both of them and pyjamas in your closet as well as 2 Short Parted Hairstyles (Female Version). The Prince only keeps the outfit he selects and pyjamas and only one Short Parted Hairstyle (Male Version).

Shooting Things[]

With a weapon capable of getting gold per hit (usually 1 gold/hit), you can earn an infinite number of gold coins, at least in the Xbox 360 version, by standing and shooting at a corpse of a monster you kill. Of course, to get any appreciable amount of gold, you'd have to do this years. This requires a rifle (or pistol) with a perk that gives it gold per hit.

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