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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the_bruiser" data-source="post: 1409395" data-attributes="member: 6126">I am actually doing this, and awarding less gold, in my campaign - we're 20-odd sessions in (10th-12th level) and it's working wonderfully.   The best weapon and armor held by anyone are +2, with no special enhancements.  Only two stat-boosting items have been found.  In adventures at this level, instead of teleporting all over, raising allies from the dead, etc., we're still traveling on foot/horseback, curing people the slow way, and burying our lost companions.  Don't get me wrong - the characters are getting to be studs, but it's not through high-level magic that they're doing it.  Because nobody is an uber-priest or -mage, everybody is forced to have some melee capability, so it's a lot more fun in that regard too, for me as a DM.  I have a word doc with a more comprehensive list of our house rules in this regard if anyone is interested.I've found that, in general, a CR reduction of ~2-3 appears to be appropriate at these levels - probably about a 25% CR reduction, according to level, both due to less magic possessed by character, and the fact that the party has no high-level casters (which in turn makes you not really able to throw certain types of opponents at the party).</blockquote>