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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3904309" data-attributes="member: 1656">Potions are like spells cast upon the imbiber. The character taking the potion doesn’t get to make any decisions about the effect —the caster who brewed the potion has already done so.This means there's no Potion of Resist Energy; rather, there's a Potion of Resist Energy (Fire) and a Potion of Resist Energy (Electricity).Let's say you've taken Wis damage and Cha damage, and you've also been hit with a Ray of Enfeeblement, incurring a Str penalty.  You drink your Potion of Lesser Restoration.Lesser restoration dispels any magical effects reducing one of the subject’s ability scores or cures 1d4 points of temporary ability damage to one of the subject’s ability scores.So when you drink your potion, does it dispel the Ray of Enfeeblement, or cure the Cha damage, or cure you Wis damage?  It can only do one, and the character taking the potion doesn’t get to make any decisions about the effect —the caster who brewed the potion has already done so.  So if the creator elected, at brewing time, to make a Potion of Lesser Restoration (dispel magic effect reducing Str), it will dispel the Ray of Enfeeblement.  If the creator made a Potion of Lesser Restoration (cure Cha damage), it will cure your Cha damage.  If the creator made a Potion of Lesser Restoration (dispel magic effect reducing Con), you're out of luck.-Hyp.</blockquote>