Can you counterspell Living spells?

[koesherbacon]

Quick question... can you counterspells Living Spells?

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

No.

At most, you might be able to counter a Living Daylight with Living Darkness (but neither, especially the former, doesn't seem like an interesting opponent).

 

[Greenfield]

Counterspell has to be done as a spell is being cast.

The Living Spell has already been cast, so it's too late to Counterspell.

 

[koesherbacon]

That's what I thought.

Speaking of uninteresting Living Spells, I made a Living Banishment spell, which seems stupid but one of my players is a Summoner. He was scared out of his mind that his Eidelon, Tibbers, would get banished during the encounter, which he did

The Living Chain Lightning, on the other hand, was brutal

 

[Ahnehnois]

Counterspell? No.

I could see the DM making up an effect for those few spells that say "X counters and dispels Y", for example Daylight counters and dispels Darkness. Perhaps it should do something to a living Darkness spell. But that's not in the rules.