Hierophant Seance Boon and Lesser Restoration


Rules Questions

Scarab Sages

Medium's Hierophant Seance Boon wrote:
Your healing spells and abilities heal an additional 2 points of damage to each target. This does not affect healing conferred by magic items, nor does it add to fast healing or similar effects.

If you cast Lesser Restoration, is the ability damage healed affected by the Seance Boon?


I don't think so. Here is Mark Seifter's response to the opposite situation for the Archmage Seance Boon.

Mark Seifter wrote:
Mcarvin wrote:

I have a question about the Medium Archmage spirit Seance Boon. I've been told Mark designed the class. I was hoping for some clarification of RAW or a statement on intent.

Here is a link to the thread http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2t79t?The-Medium-Archmage-Spirit-Seance-Boon#10 .

In summary,

"Does the seance boon benefit for the archmage spirit add to ability score damage?"

"This is like a Rogue sneak attacking or a Paladin smiting with Calcific Touch."

"I'll note that "...of the same type that they would normally deal..." clause in the ability text may set this apart from rogue or paladin ability text.
Neither the Paladin or Rogue have this qualifier."

"Also, I found this very interesting
In the "Damage" section it talks about "types" of damage.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/glossary"

Ability damage is specifically categorized as a type of damage and therefore, unless I'm missing something, the archmage seance boon will increase ability damage from spells.

Things that increase damage always increase hp damage only, unless they tell you otherwise.

I think that reasoning applies here as well so I would say that damage healed means hp damage only.

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