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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 2718202" data-attributes="member: 6562">IMC, I use the "morphic field theory" to explain a lot of D&D rules oddness. A critter's "morphic field" is an emanation from its living body which extends outside of its body, and explains certain magical effects nicely.1/ You can teleport while lifting a load determined by your Str. Clearly, your morphic field covers some loot, but not more than you can lift -- thus, certain aspects of your morphic field must come from your physical stats.2/ When you polymorph, (some of) your stuff merges into your new form. Clearly, the stuff that merged in was within your personal morphic field.3/ Outsiders are not as morphically strong as mortal critters -- they have no separate body distinct from their spirit. Clearly, they can't take as much loot with them when they teleport, but teleport effects are very easy for them, since they're not as anchored in reality.(Yes, it's all hand waving, but it's nice to put some intuition behind the game rules.) -- NPS: What exactly does all this have to do with Psions being balanced? Perhaps the very fact that discussions about Psionic balance end up so far away from actual examples of broken builds means that -- gasp -- psionics are not broken?</blockquote>