Lesser Restoration

Level 2 Abjuration spell available to Bards, Clerics, Druids, and Paladins. Touch a creature and clear one of Disease, Poison, Paralysis, or Blindness. It does nothing on a normal day, and on the day it is needed there is no substitute for it.

Spell description: Remove one disease or condition afflicting a creature.

Spell properties

• Range: Melee: 1.5m (5ft)
• Conditions applied: Cures a creature of disease, poison, paralysis, or blindness.
• Cost: Action + Spell Slot
• Recharge: Per action

Spell upcasting

Casting Lesser Restoration at higher levels provides no additional benefits.

How to obtain Lesser Restoration

• Bard, Cleric, Druid at Class level 3
• Paladin at Class level 5

Source items: Amulet of Silvanus, Scroll of Lesser Restoration

When to cast Lesser Restoration

Paralysed is the one that matters. A Held or Paralysed party member is a dead party member, because everything hitting them is an automatic critical, and Lesser Restoration ends it instantly. Ghouls, ghasts, Hold Person from an enemy caster, all undone for one slot and a touch.

Blindness and Poison are the everyday uses. Poisoned means Disadvantage on everything and it comes from half the enemies in Act 1, and a Blinded archer is useless. Both are cleared in one cast.

Keep it prepared rather than learned if you can. A Cleric swaps it in on days when you expect ghouls or spiders and swaps it back out the rest of the time. A Bard who has to spend a spell known on it should think twice.