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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gelf" data-source="post: 8369090" data-attributes="member: 96468">Here is some further info, that I couldn't fit in the article!How do I access this incredible power?This list isn’t comprehensive, but covers many of the ways you’d expect a character to access counterspell:Sorcerers, warlocks and wizards gain access to counterspell at level 5, as soon as they have access to 3rd-level spells, as it appears on their spell lists.Eldritch knight fighters and arcane trickster rogues can also access counterspell because they share the wizard spell list.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eldritch knights can select it at level 13 as an abjuration school spell choice</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arcane tricksters must use one of their ‘any school of magic’ spell choices, the earliest available being at level 14.</li> </ul>Two paladin subclasses have counterspell on their oath spells feature, at level 9.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Oath of redemption from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Oath of watchers from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything</li> </ul>Bards can choose to learn counterspell as one of their magical secrets, as early as level 6 for college of lore bards, or level 10 for other colleges.For anyone else:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica, if you join the Azorious Senate faction, you can add counterspell as a guild spell to your class spell list.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From Eberron: Rising from the Last War, the dragonmark variant human Mark of the Sentinel adds counterspell to your class spell list.</li> </ul>I want to be better at this!Some classes and subclasses have features that improve counterspell:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Abjurer wizard’s level 10 feature, Improved Abjuration, adds the wizard’s proficiency bonus to ability checks required as part of casting an abjuration spell (mainly counterspell and dispel magic) improving your chance of success when you try to interupt higher-level spells using your lower-level spell slots.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bard’s level 2 feature, Jack of All Trades adds half proficiency bonus to counterspell ability checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">War magic wizard’s level 6 feature, Power Surge, benefits from counterspell, as a way to charge up the ability, converting successful counterspells into bonus damage on a future turn.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sorcerer’s Distant Spell metamagic, allows them to extend the range of counterspell to 120 feet, and the optional level 5 class feature, Magical Guidance (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything page 66), allows a reroll of failed counterspell ability checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Warlock’s pact magic feature means their counterspells are always upcast as the warlock gains class levels. The new Pact of the Talisman option from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (page 70) gives a bonus d4 roll to failed ability checks.</li> </ul>Buffs for everyone!<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The 2nd-level spell enhance ability (on artificer, bard, cleric, druid and sorcerer spell lists) is a relatively easy way to gain advantage on counterspell ability check rolls, as well as other ability checks covered by the enhanced ability.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The guidance cantrip helps if cast in advance, as does bardic inspiration given prior to the counterspell cast.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Glibness, an 8th-level spell on the bard and warlock spell lists, sets 15 as the minimum on your Charisma based d20 ability check rolls, so you’re very likely to succeed any counterspell attempts, as bards and warlocks use Charisma as their spellcasting ability (with an 18 in Charisma, +4 modifier, you hit DC 19 on every roll)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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