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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7875322" data-attributes="member: 18">You're totally proving my point for me here!5E doesn't have a Move action and attempts to simulate one in order to create a novel action economy, especially out-of-turn, get complicated and weird. In turn it's less bad but given you can just use your movement before taking an action it can still get weird. I strongly suspect that UA will get changed though it is fairly reasonable as it is entirely voluntary and is its own thing, not a spell. Spells have their own rules and a spell that said "You cannot have moved the round you cast this" world be a tad wacky. Your own example takes a different approach and uses the Incapacitated condition, which, ironically, doesn't prevent you from moving! Your setup only prevents movement on a failure. In all other cases they lose actions and reactions but can still move. Was that intended?Either way, point is, trying to balance spells with imaginary Move actions is not a great plan. An after-cost like Incapacitated isn't bad but might be so severe that Counterspell is simply a bad idea in most cases, which is fine if that's the goal.</blockquote>