Talk:Restoration

Original description; impact on curses and diseases
The Bioware description from my 1.69 dialog.tlk is


 * Removes all magical, extraordinary and supernatural effects that apply a penalty to ability scores, Armor Class, attack and damage rolls, spell resistance, saving throws and damage immunity. This spell also removes all level drain, blindness and deafness effects. Will not remove the effects of a curse or a disease.

Recent revisions attempting to clarify what happens with ability score damage caused by diseases (and some earlier revisions) have altered that wording a bit. At one time, the preferred approach seemed to be to leave the text of the Bioware description alone as much as possible and refer the reader to amplifications and corrections (often using strikeout markup for the latter) in the notes. If that is still preferred, I propose reverting to the Bioware text and then adding some notes to reflect the newer information. Otherwise, it is tempting to alter the final sentence to separate curses and diseases, since Restoration handles them differently. It will remove the ability damage from diseases but not from curses. The current wording may be technically correct, but perhaps not as clear as "Does not remove curses or their effects. Removes the ability damage from diseases, but not the disease itself." - MrZork (talk) 23:33, November 14, 2015 (UTC)