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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buchw001" data-source="post: 1429902" data-attributes="member: 7662">Here is my two centsI am NOT a writing expert, but I asked the experts from the “Writing Center” at California State University San Marcos as to the interpretation of the following two sentences:Harm charges a subject with negative energy that deals 10 points of damage per caster level (to a maximum of 150 points at 15th level). If the creature successfully saves, harm deals half this amount, but it cannot reduce the targets hit points to less than 1.They directed me to page 329 (section 47) of the book Keys for Writer’s – A Brief Handbook which states, "A comma separates parts of a sentence; it does not separate one sentence from another".Thus as the spell is written, a character CAN die if the save is failed.  This is because the statement it cannot reduce the targets hit points to less than 1 is a part of the sentence that contains the statement if the creature successfully saves.   This is not my opinion mind you.  I truly believe the spell was NOT intended to allow death; however, the sentence structure proves otherwise.  As stated before, if there was a semicolon ( ; ) or period ( . ) after the word amount, then the interpretation would be different.For the second question, I believe that BOTH the unarmed damage and the spells damage should be doubled.  Unlike the previous discussion I see no intent in the rules otherwise.</blockquote>