Use this method to easily gain more money, runes, etc.

First, locate your Sacred 2 savegame files on your hard drive.

Vista: C:Users[USERNAME]Saved GamesAscaron EntertainmentSacred 2

XP: Documents and Settings[USERNAME]Saved GamesAscaron EntertainmentSacred 2

In the Savegame folder is a file named "chest.sacred2chest" where the things are saved you have in your in-game chest. So now a few easy steps how to duplicate every item which is in the chest.

1. Put an item into the chest which gives you a large amount of gold if you sell it to an NPC (Like the Instruments you can get on the Blind Guardian Quest they do give you about 50-100k Gold per Instrument).
2. Quit the game and return to your desktop.
3. Make a backup copy of "chest.sacred2chest".
4. Start Sacred 2 again.
5. Get the items you want to sell out of the chest.
6. Quit game and return to your desktop.
7. Copy the backup file "chest.sacred2chest" to your savegame folder again. (overwrite the old file)
8. Repeat step 4 - 7 a few times, until your inventory is full.
9. Start Sacred 2.
10. Take the items and put them into the chest under "All Characters".
11. Quit game and return to the desktop.
12. Make a backup of the "chest.sacred2chest" file again (the one with the items in the "All Characters" slot).
13. Start Sacred 2, take the items out of your chest and sell them.
14. Quit game and overwrite the empty "chest.sacred2chest“ with the backup you just made and repeat that over and over until you have enough money!