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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6021407" data-attributes="member: 29398">Worse, in fact: at least the healbot always has a purpose (people always need healing) but a counterspeller is useless if there's no casters in the opposition.That said, an effective counterspell as a spell (i.e. very limited use, and Vancian types need to memorize it ahead of time) is fine.  I even took it a step further and invented a spell "Arcane Denial" (yes it's named after the Magic card) where if a target arcane caster fails a save she can't access arcane energy for a while - a round per level of the AD's caster, I think.  She can still do everything else - use devices, weapons, move and think as normal, etc. - just not cast arcane spells.  If she does save she's immune to that same person's Arcane Denial for the rest of that day; so a caster can't keep trying it till it works.Lanefan</blockquote>