[daan]

I've noted quite a few people asking Q.'s about the deathspell before (including me). So here's all you need to know :

A death-spell kills all summoned creatures allways
Further more, it kills creatures with 8 hitdice or les. Hitdice:
Every creature is given a number of hitdice, to determine its HP. For Ex., IF an orc had
4 HitDice, he'd have between 4 and 32 HP.
(a hitdice has 8 sides). Every time you encounter an orc, these 4 hitdices are rolled to determine the orc's HP, different Orc's have DIFFERENT HP.

So basically, a death-spell KillS all creatures of 64 HP (8 hitdice = 8 X 8..) and lower.
A deathspell does look at the max.hp though,
so if a 20th lvl fighter, with only 1 HP left, would get hit by a deathspell, it STILL wouldnt affect him, since his MAX.HP, is way above 64.