Tiny Servant: Thank You for Your Tiny Service
Spell Level: 3
School: Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Duration: 8 hours
Components: V, S
You touch one Tiny, nonmagical object that isn’t attached to another object or a surface and isn’t being carried by another creature. The target animates and sprouts little arms and legs, becoming a creature under your control until the spell ends or the creature drops to 0 hit points. See the stat block for its statistics.
As a bonus action, you can mentally command the creature if it is within 120 feet of you. (If you control multiple creatures with this spell, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one.) You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a simple, general command, such as to fetch a key, stand watch, or stack some books. If you issue no commands, the servant does nothing other than defend itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the servant continues to follow that order until its task is complete.
When the creature drops to 0 hit points, it reverts to its original form, and any remaining damage carries over to that form.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can animate two additional objects for each slot level above 3rd.
Review by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
If you were looking for evidence highlighting how wildly busted Find Familiar is, look no further than Tiny Servant. Tiny Servant is a tool for creating groups of little friends to help you out while out and adventuring or long resting at the keep. Not only is the fantasy ADORABLE (just picture the pillow dog from Beauty and the Beast), but honestly quite helpful in and out of combat in a bunch of different ways.
At minimum, while you have a tiny servant around, you can command it with a bonus action to help you or a friend make some attacks or ability checks. As a floor, this is quite good; it doesn’t take concentration to maintain while giving you a reasonable bonus action. In addition, should you just need a bit more damage, this can hit with a +5 to hit and 1d4+3 bludgeoning damage. Sure, that’s quite a bit lower damage than something like Spiritual Weapon, but Spiritual Weapon can’t also clean your dishes, feed the donkey, and keep watch over night! Plus, if you’ve got spare slots to burn or higher level ones, those d4s add up QUICKLY.
The out of combat utility the tiny servants provide can range wildly. I love the idea of an animated wine glass hiding out among the other glasses, waiting for the room to empty to hop off the tray and unlock the door. Sometimes you’ll be able to slip an animated key to the floor and have it sneak up and free the caged behemoth waiting behind the villain. Having tiny constructs that obey your every command that look mostly like mundane tools is endlessly useful, and just OOZES whimsy while doing it.
If you already have Find Familiar or a homunculus servant, this is probably overkill. If you love the fantasy of having a dozen tiny household objects running your castle for you, Tiny Servant is the spell for you. I adore it, personally, and would recommend it to anyone that has a spare spell to know and a knack for out of the box problem solving.
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