To find out what a critical hit means, we see:SRD said:Spells and Critical Hits
A spell that requires an attack roll can score a critical hit. A spell attack that requires no attack roll cannot score a critical hit.
Sure, you can crit with a ray of enfeeblment, but doubling 0 damage gives you 0 damage.SRD said:A critical hit means that you roll your damage more than once, with all your usual bonuses, and add the rolls together.
SRD said:If an attack that causes ability damage scores a critical hit, it deals twice the indicated amount of damage (if the damage is expressed as a die range, roll two dice).
It depends on the negative level. Per Energy Drain:Question said:What about negative levels?
I don't think that enervation, for example, will give the victim 2d4 negative levels on a critical. It is neither damage nor energy drain.SRD said:If an attack that includes an energy drain scores a critical hit, it drains twice the given amount.
Infiniti2000 said:It depends on the negative level. Per Energy Drain:
I don't think that enervation, for example, will give the victim 2d4 negative levels on a critical. It is neither damage nor energy drain.
What's your ruling sans Complete Arcane?Hypersmurf said:Complete Arcane uses Enervation as an example on p86
Infiniti2000 said:What's your ruling sans Complete Arcane?
Necromancy school, black ray of crackling negative energy, spell lists the only reason the negative levels do not go perm because they don't last long enough... If it quacks like a duck...Infiniti2000 said:It depends on the negative level. Per Energy Drain:
I don't think that enervation, for example, will give the victim 2d4 negative levels on a critical. It is neither damage nor energy drain.