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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 635071" data-attributes="member: 1465">It is quite clear that critical hits regard only damage, not healing. Common view is that a critical hit represents having hit in a painful or vital spot. Anyway, every time you deal damage with an attack roll you can score a critical, with default of 20/x2 if no indication is given; but still it's supposed to be x2 damage, not effect (although some extra may be critted as well, such as level drain).Normally you don't roll an attack if the effect is beneficial, since the target is willing to receive it, and basically lets you automatically "hit" him. If a critical was possible, I'd also say that it would be automatic as well if the "hitting" is.There are some few special cases when you need an attack roll to hit a friend with a beneficial spell: another case could be the use of Reach Spell applied to healing of buffing spells*. I don't think it should give the possibility to score 2d4+2 with Bull's Strength for example. Otherwise... what about a Coup-de-grace Cure Wounds? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />*You might have a favorable condition, such as target being treated as having -5 Dex because he's trying to actively intercept your ray, but no automatic hit IMHO</blockquote>