Question about Raise Dead penalties...

[Clovis15]

I have a friend who is claiming the part about the RAISE DEAD penalties that says "A character who died with spells prepared has a 50% chance of losing any given spell upon being raised." is claiming that means the character is either permanently loses spells from the list of spells they know or the number of spells they can prepare in a day, for all time marching forward, even if level loss is later restored with a Restoration Spell. I am instead arguing that the specific loss stated here is only from their spells prepared that day, and has no effect whastoever on the next day.

He is being completely bonkers, right?

[concerro]

He is completely bonkers!!!

Seriously though he is correct. If he was correct all a caster would have to do is burn any prepared spells or unused slots in order to keep them if he knew he was probably going to die.

Quote:

A character who died with spells prepared has a 50% chance of losing any given spell upon being raised. A spellcasting creature that doesn't prepare spells (such as a sorcerer) has a 50% chance of losing any given unused spell slot as if it had been used to cast a spell.

If the books intends for you to lose something permanently it would say so. An example of this is ability drain which is permanent until you get someone to restore it.