Eschalon: Book I Cheats - PC

Glitch: Item duplication
Ok here is what you should do. First, save your game, either quick or regular. Then take an item either from your inventory or an item on your equipped item screen and and hold it in the cursor. To hold it, just left click the item as if you are going to drag it. Now with the item on cursor, hit the esc key and go to restore and restore the saved game you saved before this. Now you will get a screen as you load the game that says something like: Do you want to drop this item on the ground, yes or no? Hit no, and then you can open your inventory up and then place it in there and you will now have 2 of that item. This helps a lot with money, as you can use this trick to gain money to pay for extra skill points at trainers. Have fun and enjoy all that money!

Pick and Choose Your Loot
Using the same method as the item duplication with the random chest cheat you can choose which items you want from chest. All you have to do is, find a chest and quick save by pressing f2. Then, open chest, if there is something that you want in there take it. Then open you inventory and left click the item you just got. Then hit esc until you get to the screen that allows you to restore your saved games. Restore your saved file that you made earlier. Now you will get a screen asking you if you want to drop the item. Say no, and then put it in your inventory screen. Now you have the item you want and you can open the chest and do it all over. You can do this as many times as you like. All chest, besides ones containing quest items are random. So you can use this to find rare items.

Before I left the first village I have full gear, rings and trinkets for my level 1 and did not spend any gold.