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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 2438532" data-attributes="member: 141">A couple of comments:First, as Demiurge notes, you might want to make it objects only; that's the main limitation, and shouldn't be eliminated by a feat whose main benefit is an increase in weight.  Second (and this is a bit of a stretch), the feat isn't guaranteed to improve a creature's ability to teleport.  A tiny fiend with a strength of 10, for example, has a maximum load of 50.  I don't know of any such fiends, but they are a theoretical possibility, and I am thus hesitant about the name "Improved Teleport".  More realistically it is helpful to keep the succubus in mind when tinkering with the feat (a succubus has greater teleport, a Charisma of 26,  and a Strength of 13).Third, I've thought it through and I think that for most creatures a heavy load is too much.  The feat should loosen the restrictions of the teleport ability, not do away with them entirely; there should be times when a creature would have to put something down in order to teleport.  Not necessarily strip down to their skivvies (like the poor Marilith, whose 6 large swords weigh a total of 48 pounds), but they should be occasionally inconvenienced by the weight limit.  And really, does a Narzugon need to take along 520 pounds worth of stuff?  Surely 346 pounds is plenty.  After all, if this is primarily intended to be a bonus feat, it shouldn't be stronger than is needed to meet the design goals.  And medium load seems to do that.  (Light load doesn't- a succubus doesn't benefit since her light load is already 50 pounds, but I think she should, if only a little.)Fourth, why Charisma 15+?  Shouldn't an elite bearded devil should be able to spend a feat to teleport in armor?  But even with the elite array a bearded devil can't have a 15 Charisma.  (They have a base of 10, and the elite array is +4, +4, +2, +2, -2.  Although I don't see why an elite bearded devil who teleports in armor would have to be a charismatic type; I'd want to build him as a combat brute, with above average Strength or Constitution, not Charisma).So, recognizing that the feat won't always improve the ability to teleport, trying to figure it so that a succubus benefits, but a narzugon doesn't benefit too much, and dropping the Charisma requirement, I get something like the following:(revised feat in next post- old version in spoiler block)[sblock]Robust TeleportYour ability to teleport is proportionate to your physical strength and mass.Prerequisites: able to use greater teleport at will as a spell-like ability.Benefit: When you use your greater teleport ability you may take along objects whose total weight is up to your maximum medium load.Normal: Self plus 50 pounds of objects only.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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