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Lesser Restoration

Abjuration
Level: 2nd-level
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S

You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.

Spell Details

School: Abjuration
Level: 2
Ritual: No
Concentration: No
Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger
A-Tier Situationally powerful utility that can turn the tide by removing debilitating conditions or diseases mid-combat.

Player Guide

Lesser Restoration shines when enemies use save-based crowd control effects like Hold Person or Blindness/Deafness. Position your healer where they can reach afflicted allies without provoking opportunity attacks. Use this reactively when a key party member is disabled—removing paralysis from your main damage dealer is often better than healing. The disease removal utility is less relevant in combat but invaluable between encounters.

DM Tips

Lesser Restoration removes the condition, not the source—if the enemy casts Blindness again next turn, it lands unless resisted. Use diseases creatively in non-combat scenarios to make this spell feel essential beyond its combat condition-removal role.