Improvements

Plus the animals always seem to attack the foe you do not want them to or they may just stand around doing diddly squat. Same can happen with summoned monsters, which can be aggravating as well.

 

In the NC mod, the greater temple has that new electricity box thing stopping you from going on in it until you get a password (as far as I know). My friend had a save up to that point and he said that he didn't get a password, and has killed all of the monsters reachable before the electricity box in the greater temple, so there were none left to get a password from. Is there any other way to get past it if you kill stuff without talking, or if not (sorry if i'm just noobish) then there needs to be some way to make sure you can. Like a set talking point to get the password or something.

 

For me, the most annoying pathing is in the tight, mazelike sections of levels 1-3 where there are many small passages in various directions. Hommlet at least has mostly wide roads where it is easy to track down your strays, and it has lots of doors and no combat, making pathing much less of an issue. When part of your party does an end-around of half the map to get to the room next to you, it's maddening.

 

You can also get it from a random encounter from Trolls. Just rest and when you get a troll, you have a chance to threaten/torture it from it. Also, if you have a high enough rogue, he can then disarm the trap.

There is also the cheesy way to get past it. Just go into combat mode, and run each character past the field of the zapping.

 

I think this is more about druid/ranger's animal companions, than about wizard's familiars.

 

Hi Gaear
What I am specifically requesting is the "Control Animal Followers" (for Druids and Rangers) function that is in KoTB. I will confess that it has been quite a while since I have played KoTB 1.1, but I recall being able to tell the animal follower (via a Dialogue Box if I remember correctly) what I wanted it to do.
The Royal Canadian

 

Re. the electrical trap,

it was proposed long ago that the TZGY scarabs should deactivate it, much like they deactivate the fungi curtains in the original module (for which, IIRC, the electrical trap was meant to be a substitute). So perhaps it is time?

 

Another spelling for Zuggtmoy is Tsuggtmoy, so that is my guess.

 

Is it possible to make new familiars for Wizards, and/or make them all give HPs.

Maybe a whole (Modder fatiguing )overhaul of familiars in General.

Everyone takes the Toad now for that, but it would be nice to have a Pseudodragon familiar that gives +10 to Hide and +4 HPs.

Or a wolf that can attack, much like the Animal Companion (but of course used much more safely as it cannot be quickly replaced).

Heck even a Firedrake. 2-8 hp breath weapon and +4 HP (they should all give the same +4 HPs).

Just an idea.

 

Can you make it so charmed/dominated get the same aggro table as the lead party member? Frustrating charming an evil npc who then aggros the entire town on you, same goes for the temple, even if they are wearing robes.

As for my previous suggestion...it's intersections in particular.

I have about 20 things written down over the course of my last playthrough, though not all of them would fit into the "improvements" category...lots are bugs I think. Example: snakes can be tripped, and they shouldn't.