Advocaatus diaboli here: it's not like he couldn't make near infinite gold anyway by simply hiring any pick pocket character (even Haer'dalis, who is gimped in thieving ways fiercely, will do), imbibing like 3-4 Potions of Thieving Mastery, and selling off a ton of stolen merchandise to various black market types, including Gorch or that person who shows up at night along the eastern route to Waukeen Promenade. Just for shits and giggles, I once made a fuckton of money in this way right after exiting Chateau Irenicus. It's cheesy, but technically legal, and may the first person who never lowered the difficulty to Very Easy before level up or reading rare and expensive scrolls, or made mages forget spells to learn them again for free XP, cast the first stone. Some of the more broken mods like Tactics also throw so much trash (that drops loot) at you that you also end up having a fuckton of gold that levels the playing field between you and the absolute bullshit enemies. And it's not like money is that impactful in BG over time - sure, being able to buy out Joluv and Deidre stock instantly is definitely going to make your early game way easier, but in the end, the amount of gold you can realistically spend anywhere is gated by where you go. Most of the really good stuff, like high level scrolls and such, are unlocked in the Underdark and beyond. By the time you finish Underdark and all of the Chapter 2/3 quests, you'll already have more gold than you'd care to spend, and that's including right after getting every single Cromwell artifact you'd care for, every single useful Ribald item after the Underdark restock, and all the spell scrolls you want.
But Dzupakazul, by the same logic, we should just, for example, not roll for stats and instantly max everything to 18 with the cheat command. Well, yeah, I agree that his was not the most elegant solution for this sorta stuff. I, however, generally think that cheating in some items isn't wrong in moderation, especially since it's his own fun. The no-reloader community allows for stuff like giving yourself a free Bag of Holding at the start, especially if you already have stacked the odds against yourself with your typical hardmode mods. Some people make cheat-in tiny trinket items that aren't particularly powerful (definitely not as powerful as end-game artifacts or even staple solid items like Balduran's Helm, which is relevant for virtually the entire game), but give more personality to the character they're making a no-reload run in. It's just an odd bit of customization that doesn't impact the game in the long run.
So yeah, earning this much gold isn't that hard, just takes time. I can see his reasoning being that he just want fights with tougher fight mechanics and trickier defenses but without really feeling like going through the micromanagement game with gold and shit. I feel like y'all are overreacting a bit about what he does in his own time with his own stupid little single player game. By the time he really hits the meaty parts of typical mod fights, his treasury won't save his party. And it's not like he said he's planning on clearing encounters with the mighty magic of CLUAConsole.
