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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terwox" data-source="post: 2632175" data-attributes="member: 1044">I've played in a game where we were 18th level in a party of six and we each had an item that wasn't worth much, like a +2 weapon and normal armor.  Really didn't like it.The game doesn't remotely balance at this point -- you can't take a party of 4 9th level people and just chuck them against a CR 9 monster out of a MM if your wealth levels are non-standard.  That might seem like it isn't a problem, but it's a ton of more work on the GM's part to make battles that are challenging but non-lethal.I can say that I get significantly frustrated with low magic campaigns in D&D simply because most people fail to take into account the vast amount of things that get altered when at whatever level you have less than 1/25th of the item value you're supposed to have.  It hurts the fun for me personally.Von Ether, if having wealth off doesn't hurt the fun for you, that's totally cool -- just make sure it's not hurting the fun for your players.  You might also consider a one shot that just goes with the rules as written, whatever ECL characters, with normal amounts of cash, against typical CR beasties... it's a load of fun, and you don't have to do NEARLY as much guesswork and head pounding as you do when the CR doesn't mean anything because the wealth system is off.Good luck either way, though!</blockquote>