If you are only getting one attribute restored from a potion of restore ability, it selects the one that is the most points below its former maximum, rather than picking randomly. Or else you just get to pick the stat you are restoring.
Track your maximum reached HP and Pw (or maximum “external sources” HP and Pw if using a system where it mainly depends on a stat and XL) and allow restore ability to also fix these.
Restore ability (potion or spell) also cures wounded legs, “restoring your ability” to jump, kick, carry, etc, and will cure most status ailments as well.
All the various fruits and vegetables have slightly different (and generally good) non-nutritional effects, like with carrots and blindness. Ideas:
Define a new set of ability score maximums which represents the highest the score can reach via exercise. These caps are always equal to or higher than the existing maximums, which represent the highest a stat can be increased to through potions of gain ability or other stat-boosting effects. In some cases, the exercise maximum should stay the same and the non-exercise maximum may need to be decreased.
It’s an open question on whether restore ability should be able to restore points to their exercise-only maximums, or just up to the gain-ability maximums.
Restore ability sources (including unicorn horns) only restore stat points up to their starting values, not to the highest values reached. Alternatively, restore up to the average of the starting and maximum value, rounded down.
