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)