What if your character's carry weight increased if they summoned a creature to "help them carry things"? Imagine that a wizard bought a new quarter, but they have so much furniture to move to this new place, it'll take an eternity for their 8 STR noodle arms to carry everything. Now, if they could summon a strong earth elemental to help them, this would be much faster.
Of course, in PnP, something like this could be roleplayed out just fine, but the same thing just doesn't work in NWN unless you're able to interact with your summon's or henchman's inventories, what, as far as I known, outside of those oozes from the Oozemaster, just isn't a thing.
Basically, this idea consists of adding a % (or some other value deemed more appropriate) of the strength of the summons/henchmen to the character that summoned/recruited them, but of course, only for the purposes of carry weight.
At first, this looks like a cool QoL feature for low STR casters that need to carry a lot of stuff for a short period of time, but I'm sure someone will find a way to make this a boon for PvP, although in that case a caster (or anyone using a summon scroll, really) would be in a complicated spot if someone either kills or dispels their summon/henchman. Suddenly, encumbered, and it's well known to all how mobility and kiting are important factors for PvP.
Summoned Creatures/Henchmen and Carry Weight
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