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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3548481" data-attributes="member: 8439">This would be my take as well. Counterspelling requires you to interupt an action, not merely respond to it. A quickened spell is a swift action, not an imediate one, it still happens after the "triggering" action has already resolved, and you can';t decide to do it before an action you've already declared.I am skeptical of the reactive counterspell route, but it could resolve normally if you allow nested readied/reactive actions. It would be similar to a situation where someone readies an action to interupt your casting, but their mode of interuption allows a AoO from you. If you would allow the nesting of interuptions where you take your AoO before they try to interupt before your spell resolves, then you should (imo) also allow a reactive counterspell to counterspell their counterspell before your spell. (on the house rules side of the discussion, it would be interesting to have a metamagic feat or class ability that could turn a regular spell into an immediate action. This is one of the uses of Action Points I've been considering for my next campaign.)</blockquote>