Short question about spell "Lesser Restoration" (LR)

[imminence]

Whoever has this spell - be it a druid, cleric, monk - should be able to heal affliction caused by poison, those permanent attribut (STR, AGI) losses, right?
Especially in that annoyingly large dungeon of that "Sycamore" with all these centipedes and spiders it would be good to have.

But:
In my games it doesn't work at all. Neither the spell directly casted, nor read from a scroll.

If an afflicted character drinks a potion of LR it works.

What's the deal?

[Entropie]

Always worked for me, whether it was a cleric or as the aasimar special ability makes me wonder what is going wrong for you.

Note that for countering poison, using a communal delay poison spell before the encounter is much better than having to heal things up later.

[Drake]

Lesser restoration heal 1d4 attribute damage if I remember right. That means that if you got poisoned multiple times and got like -8 to STR, you'll need between 2 and 8 lesser restorations to do the job.

[Rulin]

"It does not restore permanent ability drain." https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/r/restoration/

So I think it deals more with temporary, damage over time effects.


You need greater restoration (GR) for that. This spells will cost you diamond dust btw.

Edit: Sorry, I think I confused the restoration spell a bit. Normal restoration should be enough. Thanks for the hint @Entropie

[Entropie]

Poisons do not cause ability drain though, only ability damage, so that should not be the issue.

@Rulin:
No ability damage is permanent and is healed by lesser restoration, ability drain is permanent and only healed by using at least resoration.

[imminence]

But as I wrote: When they use a potion of LESSER restoration, it works.

And that's the confusing part. Why does the spell - which is literally the same - nothing, but the potion works?

NOTE:
I know that poison stuff ftom AD&D. First they get poisoned and if not healed, the second damage applies, which requires said "lesser restoration".

[Entropie]

It seems fairly unlikely to be a bug, there is probably some kind of misunderstanding going on.

But troubleshooting that like this would be a huge guessing game.

Can you upload a gif which shows you using lesser restoration on a char with ability damage?

[LordSerion]

Easiest solution is to visit the town scribe at the market and buy a load of Greater Restoration scrolls and 3-4 Delay Poison Communal scrolls. The latter provides 1 hour long poison immunity to the whole team while the former can heal level and ability drain.