Minor suggestions thread

[Reverend Bizarre]

This thread is for suggestions that do not change the gameplay dramatically and do not deserve their own thread. I'll start.

1. Troll vault in Old Forest is kinda boring. It's a huge castle that takes quite a bit of space, but all it has is a bunch of trolls which are pretty easy to dispatch. This can be fixed by adding more generic trolls, some trolls thunderers or may be even a random unique troll. Of course, the amount of loot found should also be increased.
2. Sometimes it can be tedious to find minotaur boss on 5th level of Maze. It may be a good move to add a room in the center of that level (Heart of the Maze) where he (and may be some other minotaurs) my be found. Another way to fix this is to give the boss telepathy so that he could find the player himself.
3. Egg-sac of Ungole: while this is a fairly interesting artifact, I think it should be more interesting for Summoners. May be summoned spiders could benefit from Resilience talent or have increased lifetime and/or stats. Also, I suggest to soften the light radius penalty (from -2 to -1), because in most situations it's quite crippling and the penalty applies to the player even if he doesn't want to use the artifact (actually, since we have Transmogrification Chests, this is not a big issue, but sometimes the egg-sac could be obtained way before getting the chest).
4. It's bad that known lore could only be accessed via the menu. It could be added to journal as a tab.

[TheRani]

Actually, the egg sac can't be Transmogrified. I actually tried the other day. Didn't work.

[edge2054]

Also I don't think the egg-sac is worth anything is it? If I find the light penalty to annoying I tend to just leave it.

[Zonk]

1. Yeah, I'd definetely love if it was a troll unique(a bit like the giants' vault in Daikara). After all, a castle needs its own lord

2. I agree, though I'd prefer the Mino having telepathy rather than starting in a vault/the center. Though of course both could be combined, but they wouldn't work as well.

3. Minus light radius and not being sellable sorta suck.
Perhaps it could give some minor bonuses for carrying it, like +nature/poison resist? Spider telepathy?
Alternatively: what if in addition to using it to summon you could also eat it to gain a new spider-related talent tree or some kind of permanent modifiers?
Or, if we want something way less radical...make the summoned spider stay around by having a much longer duration.