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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8195487" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I appreciate everyone's replies.You've all mostly engaged with the thrust of my original post, but there hasn't been uniform clear answers as to the bottom questions.  Thus far it seems the 2 answers that predominate are basically:* “Not much or at all. Spellcaster toys are meant to do this stuff and I’ve always got more bad guys/obstacles.”* "Number 1 is a legal move and countermeasures are extrapolated from that."Ok then.So following from the above, an answer to the questions might be something like:1)  Countermeasures occur about 1 x per session.2)  Countermeasures occur about 1/4 spell/gambit deployments by the spellcaster (meaning 25 % are countered and 75 % aren't countered).3)  The countermeasures deployed are nearly universally by way of:1) Preemptively using unestablished backstory or unilateral access to the offscreen (NPC x has Antimagic wards on their lair/redoubt, Divination and Teleportation exclusion zones mandated by territorial governing bodies, spellcasting is outlawed or aggressively stigmatized, NPC x has a mage with an anti-spellcaster loadout, NPC x IS a mage with an anti-spellcaster loadout, NPC x has Magic Resistance, etc, etc).This is because 2, 3, and 4 are bad faith moves made by the GM (or something to that effect), but 1 is not only a good faith play, but responsible GMing.</blockquote>