I also think there should be a feat that gives us Shovel as a permanent familiar. I like his character that much.
I have been saying for almost 2 years now that scroll should be changed to a once per long rest item of some kind.
Shovel mentions it's previous master never summoned it for anything fun. To me that implies it was repeatedly summoned which isn't possible from a single use scroll, and if it was summoned even once before the scroll would have been destroyed and we couldn't use it.
I plan on modding it later after release. Before I do though I may try a run where I try to keep it alive the whole way now that familiars don't despawn on long rest.
