A passive role-play build .   I've played a passive character in both Morrowind and Oblivion - but I've yet to do it in Skyrim.  Looks like it's about time.

Lockpicking perks!  - This build absolutely requires it.  ( I can imagine hearing  'a now inactive member' whining that you wasted x number of perks, and ...  )

I always have 'goals' for my characters.  A good goal: 100k acheivement - (During a play-through, I quit 'selling' my loot at some point, placing it all in chests with the intention to sell later; but I never do). 

Awesome build, guaranteed to do this next time I pop the game in. One question: what do we do in regard of the main quest?

Pretty nice build, but one question. Sense you will be making tons of gold on this build, what would you use the money on? If you aren't going to be really the "assassination" type of Thief, what is there to buy that can be used effectively? Because from first hand experience, having a lot of gold isn't really that fun unless you can buy things that you want with it. 

This is godamn awesome, I remember talking about an argonian version with you but your build is way more effective than my idea man, very nice job it's exactly the kind of build I'm looking for, designed for people who want to enjoy the game as it is supposed to be, thanks for posting it I will start it asap! A nice way to play it is without using the load function, trying your best to be a skilled thief or going to jail for failing :p

Haha that sounds awesome, I have started mine 10 minutes ago, still level 2, the game is paused atm i'm going through embershard mine, barelly started and already have 1000+ gold from the general guy at riverwood :O. Got caught by Hilde pickpocketing 25 bounty on me right now lol.