Raise Dead / Resurrection and Restoration - Negative Level Death

[Skrayper]

I was looking at the rules for negative levels and saw this:

Quote:

A creature whose permanent negative levels equal its Hit Dice cannot be brought back to life through spells like raise dead and resurrection without also receiving a restoration spell, cast the round after it is restored to life.

Link - https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/special-abilities#TOC-Energy-Drain-a nd-Negative-Levels

But Restoration has a 3 round casting time.

Quote:

Casting Time 3 rounds

Link - https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/r/restoration/

Now, I know the likelihood of a character dying with more levels drained than they possess is low, but this does seem to imply you would need at least a 9th level Cleric/10th level Oracle and a 7th level Cleric/9th level Oracle (considering potions cap at level 3 and wands do not shorten the spell casting, plus you cannot use Quicken Spell on spells that take longer than a full round to cast)

Am I reading it correctly that you essentially have to have two casters, one of which starts casting Restoration two rounds before the Raise Dead/Resurrection spell finishes? (Not to mention that this would be a fairly expensive "Raise Dead" compared to someone who died normally)

[VRMH]

Or the casting merely needs to begin that round. You couldn't start to cast Restoration beforehand anyway - the recipient would still be a corpse, and not a creature.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

Actually, VRMH,

CRB, Magic, Casting Time wrote:

You make all pertinent decisions about a spell (range, target, area, effect, version, and so forth) when the spell comes into effect.

So you could start casting Restoration before the recipient-to-be was a valid target. But I agree that you don't have to---"cast the round after" in this instance is generally interpreted as "begin to cast" not "finish casting".

[blahpers]

Yup, gotta time it just right. Like bullseyeing womp rats in your T-16 back home.

Or just assume your characters know how to time it and not worry so much. Unless you're tossing these spells around during a pitched battle, fussing over the details seems silly.