5th-level abjuration · 2024 version below
You imbue a creature you touch with positive energy to undo a debilitating effect. You can reduce the target's exhaustion level by one, or end one of the following effects on the target:
You touch a creature and undo one serious effect on it. Pick one: reduce its exhaustion by one level, or end one effect that charmed or petrified it, one curse (including attunement to a cursed magic item), any reduction to one of its ability scores, or one effect reducing its hit point maximum. It costs 100 gp of diamond dust, which the spell consumes.
It’s the fix for effects that nothing cheaper touches: a medusa’s stone gaze, a cursed sword you can’t put down, or a vampire’s charm. It only removes one effect per casting, so a character with three levels of exhaustion needs three castings or three long rests.
It reduces exhaustion by one level per casting. A long rest with food and water also removes one level.
Yes. It ends one effect that petrified the target, such as a medusa’s or basilisk’s gaze, and the creature returns to flesh.
It ends one curse, including your attunement to a cursed item, so you can take the item off or throw it away. The item itself stays cursed; Remove Curse works the same way at 3rd level.
No, neither is on its list. Use Lesser Restoration or Protection from Poison, or Heal for diseases.
Yes. It ends one effect reducing the target’s hit point maximum, such as a wight’s or vampire’s drain. Most of those also end on a long rest, so it matters most when you can’t rest.
Not under the 2014 rules: it’s a bard, cleric and druid spell. The 2024 rules add it to the paladin and ranger lists, and word it as ending the Charmed or Petrified condition.
| Spell | How it compares |
|---|---|
| Lesser Restoration | 2nd level: ends one disease, or blinded, deafened, paralyzed or poisoned. Cheaper, and covers what Greater Restoration doesn’t. |
| Remove Curse | 3rd level: ends every curse on a creature, not just one, and breaks attunement to a cursed item. |
| Heal | 6th level: 70 hit points and it ends blindness, deafness and diseases, but not charm, petrification or exhaustion. |
| Calm Emotions | 2nd level: suppresses charm and fear on a group of humanoids while you concentrate, rather than ending them. |
| Wish | 9th level: can replicate Greater Restoration without the diamond dust, or undo things no spell covers. |
| Class | First available | Spellcasting ability |
|---|---|---|
| Bard spells | 9th character level | Charisma |
| Cleric spells | 9th character level | Wisdom |
| Druid spells | 9th character level | Wisdom |
The 2024 Player’s Handbook revised many spells, and the SRD 5.2 carries the new text. What changed from the 2014 version above:
You touch a creature and magically remove one of the following effects from it: • 1 Exhaustion level • The Charmed or Petrified condition • A curse, including the target's Attunement to a cursed magic item • Any reduction to one of the target's ability scores • Any reduction to the target's Hit Point maximum
2024 version from the SRD 5.2. Most tables settle on one edition, so check which one yours uses.
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