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Does Heal "remove" ability damage?
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<blockquote data-quote="Liquidsabre" data-source="post: 2535759" data-attributes="member: 15635"><p>The DMG lists Ability Damage as a condition. <em>Heal</em> removes the Ability Damage condition. The dragon gets it's ability score restored. No ways around that one that I can see.</p><p></p><p>Just realize there are other conditions that the Heal spell do not fix such as Ability Drain and penalities to an ability score due to a spell not on the list under <em>Heal</em> for example. There is an important distinction there. It just sounds like the adventure made a bit of a goof there really.</p><p></p><p>Looking up <em>Remove Disease</em> however we see that the spell also kills parasites and such as well which the <em>Heal</em> spell does not. Maybe the dragon literally just had a bug instead and didn't have Ability Damage but an Ability Penalty due to the condition (parasite-infested disease) which isn't removed by the <em>Heal </em> spell but IS removed by the <em>Remove Disease </em> spell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Liquidsabre, post: 2535759, member: 15635"] The DMG lists Ability Damage as a condition. [I]Heal[/I] removes the Ability Damage condition. The dragon gets it's ability score restored. No ways around that one that I can see. Just realize there are other conditions that the Heal spell do not fix such as Ability Drain and penalities to an ability score due to a spell not on the list under [I]Heal[/I] for example. There is an important distinction there. It just sounds like the adventure made a bit of a goof there really. Looking up [I]Remove Disease[/I] however we see that the spell also kills parasites and such as well which the [I]Heal[/I] spell does not. Maybe the dragon literally just had a bug instead and didn't have Ability Damage but an Ability Penalty due to the condition (parasite-infested disease) which isn't removed by the [I]Heal [/I] spell but IS removed by the [I]Remove Disease [/I] spell. [/QUOTE]
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