A couple questions:
If a character has 5 HP left, and another casts Vampiric Touch on him for 10 HP, how much healing does the caster get? I believe 5 would be correct, but I am not 100% sure.
Also, my group and I were disusing what would happen if you cast Vampiric Touch on an undead creature. Since it deals negative damage (although technically, isn't negative damage just healing?), it would heal the undead creature, but would the caster LOSE hit points then? Under RAW, I would not think so, but it might be an interesting thing to add!
No healing, only tempoary HP, but the 5 would be correct, you cannot deal damage past 0, I believe.
If we follow the RAW, then yes, you would heal the undead and take the healing as tempoary damage, that dissapears in 1 minute.
That´s how I see it.
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No to the second because of two reasons:
1st: Negative damage don't automatically heal undead - the effect must explicitly state it heals undead. Read how harm is worded for example.
2nd: Vampiric touch explicitly targets "one living creature". Undead is not a living creature and thus is not viable target for this spell, making it fail.