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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoshWilhoyte" data-source="post: 2678521" data-attributes="member: 22054"><p>I've done it as a player in only one fight.  The bad guy was hiding in a bank of fog while we were on a boat, so he was hard to fight and to get to, but we could hear him when he was casting spells.  So I used prepared actions to counter him, which helped a little.  IMX, it works allright when you outnumber the badguys, so your beat machines can get up close and personal, and your wizard is basically counteracting the enemy's entire actions.  It has worked better for us when we know the general spells we want to stop, so we could prepare them for auto-countering as opposed to hoping for Dispel Magic to work.  In 3.0, we liked to Slow the mage so his Haste was gone, then use our Haste action to prep a counterspell.  When on his turn he'd try to re-Haste, we'd either burn a Haste or a Slow to counter it, so he's wasted his action.  But our GM likes to throw massively powerful single guys at us.  It also worked when we were fighting a Lich, we couldn't hurt him much, but we got him grapelled, and our wizard kelt him from teleporting out by countering the Teleports and Dimension Doors he tried to cast.  But it's never been something we did consistently, though I'd like to try it.  (targetted Dispel to drop all their buffs in another thing though)</p></blockquote><p></p>