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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7872591" data-attributes="member: 29398">First off: explicitly rule that a Counterspell cannot itself be Counterspelled.  Easy enough to explain in the fiction by saying that by the time you realize another caster has started a Counterspell and you've got your own going, the first one has resolved.  In other words, FIFO. (and it's not a big jump to expand this to say that all spells cast as reactions use FIFO; if multiple people want to cast reaction spells at the same time, roll off to determine sequence)  This gets around M:tG-like Counterspell wars.Second: ignore Jeremy Crawford and rule that a caster cannot interrupt a spell they are in process of casting in order to cast another spell, even if the reaction rules would say or imply that they can.Third: rule that even though it's cast as a "reaction", casting Counterspell uses up your main action for the round.Fourth: rule that unlike other spells, Counterspell can only be cast as its own level slot (no up-casting or slot substitution allowed).  This limits how many Counters a caster can do in a day and forces some choices to be made.After all that, let 'em fly.  Don't worry about potentially shutting down a PC caster, for two reasons: one, if the enemy caster is busy Countering it means they're not doing anything else that's more dangerous; and two, the PCs in theory have access to Counterspell as well and what's good for the goose is good for the gander.</blockquote>

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