Negative Health Spells Options

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In Shadow Spells, it says about Negative Health Spells "cause a Magic+Spellcasting [force] damage resisted by the subject's body (+ counterspelling if applicable)". Which is fine and all.

Then none of the spells work that way, I think?

Some have their own details on damage. Others look like they don't do damage -- in fact Nauseate specifies that it doesn't cause damage. But Nauseate counts net hits, while Dehydrate only takes effect if it is unresisted.


Which leads to two questions:

1) should the mention of damage in the preamble to the health spells section in SS be ignored?
2) Would nausea and dehydrate be looking at a magic+spellcasting versus body test, or some other defense test?

(this might have been a better question for the official boards, but since they've been more down than up lately, trying here)

[Jack_Spade]

Specific trumps general rules.

as long as there is no other defense test mentioned (like in decrease attribute) you use body to resist. Likewise you do damage unless specified otherwise.