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<blockquote data-quote="Werebat" data-source="post: 7009174" data-attributes="member: 40158">Why does a Counterspell have to be faster than the spell it is countering?It's not a silly question.&nbsp; Why can't the Counterspell automatically slow down the casting of the spell it is countering -- just a tiny, tiny bit?&nbsp; Just long enough for it to have time to unweave the spell being woven?Someone left a link a while back to an nice article describing how Counterspell can be made exciting by simply describing what it does to counter the spell it targets -- like Dumbledore saving Harry from thousands of shards of glass hurled by one of Voldemort's spells by countering with a shield that turned them to sand.&nbsp; If you're thinking cinematically, it's easy to imagine a sort of push vs. push resistance going on as one caster tries to counter the other and finds his counter countered.&nbsp; All of this would result in a slight delay in the casting of the original spell, as well as the counters -- but maybe not by an entire turn.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Werebat, post: 7009174, member: 40158"] Why does a Counterspell have to be faster than the spell it is countering? It's not a silly question. Why can't the Counterspell automatically slow down the casting of the spell it is countering -- just a tiny, tiny bit? Just long enough for it to have time to unweave the spell being woven? Someone left a link a while back to an nice article describing how Counterspell can be made exciting by simply describing what it does to counter the spell it targets -- like Dumbledore saving Harry from thousands of shards of glass hurled by one of Voldemort's spells by countering with a shield that turned them to sand. If you're thinking cinematically, it's easy to imagine a sort of push vs. push resistance going on as one caster tries to counter the other and finds his counter countered. All of this would result in a slight delay in the casting of the original spell, as well as the counters -- but maybe not by an entire turn. [/QUOTE]

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