Shovel (familiar)

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Shovel
Role	Familiar
Voiced by	Ellie Heydon
Information
Race	Quasit
Stats
Size	Small
Type	Fiend
Armour Class	13
Hit points	7
Initiative	+3
Ability scores
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 5 (-3) 17 (+3) 10 (0) 7 (-2) 10 (0) 10 (0)
Proficiency bonus	+2
Saving throws	Str -3 Dex +3 Con 0 Int -2 Wis 0 Cha 0
Features
Darkvision	Can see in the dark up to 12m.
Opportunity Attack	Automatically attack an enemy moving out of your reach.

Shovel is a unique quasit and summonable familiar that can be summoned via the Find Familiar: Cheeky Quasit spell. Unlike regular quasits, Shovel has unique dialogue, and can be interacted with after summoning her.

Her name can be changed to Fork or Basket through dialogue.

“	Shovel is bored! Shovel wants to murderise!	„
	— Shovel

Overview

Shovel is a carefree and upbeat fiend that finds joy in murder, arson and eating babies. She is impatient, and very easily gets bored. In spite of her irreverent demeanour, Shovel can be deeply loyal, even when denied the many pleasures of violence.

Summoning Shovel

There are two ways of summoning Shovel:

• Temporarily via the Scroll of Summon Quasit found in the Apothecary's Cellar.
  • The scroll can also be scribed by wizards, allowing them to permanently acquire the spell in the wizard tab in the spellbook.
• Permanently by speaking to Shovel with a Warlock, Wizard or Sorcerer. This spell is not lost on respeccing. See #Permanently acquiring Shovel.

Permanently acquiring Shovel

Warlocks and wizards, as well as sorcerers (Draconic Bloodline subclass is recommended due to potential bugs.), can gain the spell permanently in their common tab. After summoning Shovel either by using the Scroll of Summon Quasit found in the Apothecary's Cellar, or by a Wizard that scribed the scroll, that character will automatically initiate dialogue with her. Here you have to do the right dialogue options - choosing the first one every time will work. After finishing that dialogue go to the character who you want to be able to resummon Shovel, and start a new dialogue. If that character is a Warlock, Wizard, or Sorcerer, Shovel will call them a "spell shite" and the spell will be added permanently to that characters common tab. Respeccing does not remove the spell. This does not work if you are disguised.

By scribing the scroll on a Wizard, and talking to shovel with another character you can learn the spell on two characters.

History

Shovel was owned by the necromancer Ilyn Toth, who was a cruel and neglectful master. He would often verbally and physically abuse her, and often forgot to feed her. In spite of this, Shovel enjoyed working with her former master.

Attacks and abilities

Similar to other Find Familiar summons, Shovel excels at providing chip damage and harassment in battle. Defensively, her fragile body is at best a distraction against most enemies. Her Invisibility skill is particularly useful for scouting out enemy positions and initiating fights via Surprise attacks.

•  Claws
  • Attack roll +5
•  Invisibility
  • Duration: Until Long rest
•  Scare
  • DC 10  Wisdom saving throw

Unlike ordinarily summoned quasits, Shovel has her own unique lines when using her actions.

External links

• Ilyn Toth on the Forgotten Realms Wiki