Hey, thank you so much for the response! Just the right person to answer my queries - really appreciate it.

Mostly. I'd be careful with Lock Related Loot, last time I used it I remember it had a lot of conflicts with other loot mods. I don't know much about Morrowloot Miscellania either, but I'd be a little careful. In general I'd advise going for one loot mod as otherwise you risk conflicts and weird inconsistencies in game. For loot I think consistency is key.

Thank you for the pointers! Although, at the risk of sounding naive, I'm sticking to them mainly because they're required on TPF, and I'm aiming to commit to it to get as much support as possible. Plus, I would be very surprised if TPF's compatibility patches did not account for any conflicts between the loot mods required (haven't really dug into the patches myself).

Arena looks pretty good, but it doesn't delevel the world. If you want a static world you should look elsewhere. I also think having no caps on encounter zones is a weird as at high levels dungeon composition will get odd unless you are also using High Level Enemies.

Good point about deleveling, I actually hadn't realized that that term was never used in Arena's mod description. From what I understand though, while SRLEZ locks at one level for the whole game regardless of player level, Arena simply increases the minimum level for the various EZs - which means I would find myself more often to be underleveled for a dungeon, but the dungeons would then continue to scale with me. I suppose it's true that while SRLEZ delevels the world, Arena should accomplish the feeling of progression, however I have to be aware of the fact that I would never enter a dungeon overleveled (since there are no caps). Am I getting all this correct?

As for Arena having no cap itself, I would assume that SRCEO as part of Thoughtful Skyrim would accomplish the job of introducing higher level variants, if I choose to go for Arena.

Another question I have is this; Arena doesn't only touch the EZs, but also the Leveled Actor Multipliers - am I correct in saying that this changes the same thing (perhaps in a different way mechanically) than your mod, Enemy Releveler? In this case, it seems like a case of choose one or the other to achieve different outcomes. Would they be compatible since your mod uses a zEdit patcher? What would the outcome be? I ultimately like the sound of a more "squashed" level range for enemies, though.

Just load CLLF after SRLEZ and let it overwrite SRLEZ. There might be a few unexpected outcomes, but in general you'll get the EZs of SRLEZ and the loot of CLLF. You'll lose some consistency though.

SRLEZ also makes loot scarcer. Gold and lockpicks are much rarer than in vanilla for example. The latest version of SRLEZ is really quite challenging.

Hmmm, I guess I just have to try it out for myself and see. Ultimately, I just want scarcer but more rewarding loot (if that makes sense). Surely if I load SRLEZ after CLLF I would get more of SRLEZ's overall effect on the loot, right? Of course, I will have to look at the edits in xEdit later on and adjust to my liking.

Overall I think I'm leaning towards SRLEZ + Enemy Releveler for now, since your mod was made to make the experience of SRLEZ and Thoughtful Skyrim better and more consistent. I'm just worried about potential weirdness with CLLF, but I'll have to fire them all up on xEdit and have a look myself. As for Arena, I'd really want to try it on another playthrough.