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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 588414" data-attributes="member: 1465">I can't find from the SRD that you &quot;ready a counterspell&quot;, it just says you ready to cast something: it is anyway fundamental for counterspelling that at least you don't know which spell you're going to cast when you ready. You may be required to know that you have to &quot;alter&quot; the spell to function as a counterspell (see below), but it's not written here in the SRD.The bold part says that if you fail the Spellcraft check, you can't &quot;counter&quot;. It doesn't say you can't cast something else.The italic part says a counterspell is &quot;altered&quot;, in fact a Slow used as counterspell doesn't Slow the target at all. You &quot;alter&quot; the spell when you cast it.The underlined part says that to use Dispel Magic as counterspell you don't need the Spellcraft check.Personally, I don't see any problem in allowing to ready a spell, make the Spellcraft check, and THEN if you fail you may cast Dispel Magic or anything else as the readied action. It definitely does not turn Counterspelling into a powerful tactic. And it is not in contrast with the SRD, although NOT allowing is not in contrast as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 588414, member: 1465"] I can't find from the SRD that you "ready a counterspell", it just says you ready to cast something: it is anyway fundamental for counterspelling that at least you don't know which spell you're going to cast when you ready. You may be required to know that you have to "alter" the spell to function as a counterspell (see below), but it's not written here in the SRD. The [B]bold[/B] part says that if you fail the Spellcraft check, you can't "counter". It doesn't say you can't cast something else. The [I]italic[/I] part says a counterspell is "altered", in fact a Slow used as counterspell doesn't Slow the target at all. You "alter" the spell when you cast it. The [U]underlined[/U] part says that to use Dispel Magic as counterspell you don't need the Spellcraft check. Personally, I don't see any problem in allowing to ready a spell, make the Spellcraft check, and THEN if you fail you may cast Dispel Magic or anything else as the readied action. It definitely does not turn Counterspelling into a powerful tactic. And it is not in contrast with the SRD, although NOT allowing is not in contrast as well. :) [/QUOTE]

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