There are a couple of other play-balance issues that point to the fact that the game was rushed out the door. The AI of the creatures is entertaining. It's far too easy just to run by monsters time after time rather than having to fight them. In addition, sometimes monsters don't react to you, allowing you to either pick them off from a distance with a bow or spells or even walk right up to them and hack 'em to pieces. If there are two monsters together, one may react while the other stands there blissfully unaware of your presence.
Gold is fairly easy to accumulate, but there's often nothing to spend it on.
Many players can get to the 9,999 GP limit and stay there the whole game. If you didn't make it to town in time, you had to find an Inn in which to spend the evening. Finally, there are two editions of the game. Origin did not modify these older games to work with Windows 95 or 98 and these can be very tricky get to run properly. Consider yourself warned.