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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 7739014" data-attributes="member: 158">A few points:1) You’ve just made your enemy use two spells to cast one spell, and you’ve used only one, pretty good trade-off in my opinion, especially at mid-levels (5th through 10th). Plus if they’re not using their higher level slots, it’s not a sure thing. You want to use two fifth level slots to get your cone of cold off? Be my guest!2) You assume the enemy knows you have counterspell. Until you cast it the first time, they don’t.3)&nbsp; Not every caster will have counterspell - I wouldn’t run it that way if I were DMing, because that’s way too much metagaming. It presumes the caster will always have access to the spell, and an NPC caster may not.4) It presumes the caster will want to take up that prep spell with counterspell instead of something more useful like more damage and utility spells, and the caster only has so many prep slots. Or a caster might not have the foresight to prep it on a given day (intelligence does not imply wisdom, and all that).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 7739014, member: 158"] A few points: 1) You’ve just made your enemy use two spells to cast one spell, and you’ve used only one, pretty good trade-off in my opinion, especially at mid-levels (5th through 10th). Plus if they’re not using their higher level slots, it’s not a sure thing. You want to use two fifth level slots to get your cone of cold off? Be my guest! 2) You assume the enemy knows you have counterspell. Until you cast it the first time, they don’t. 3) Not every caster will have counterspell - I wouldn’t run it that way if I were DMing, because that’s way too much metagaming. It presumes the caster will always have access to the spell, and an NPC caster may not. 4) It presumes the caster will want to take up that prep spell with counterspell instead of something more useful like more damage and utility spells, and the caster only has so many prep slots. Or a caster might not have the foresight to prep it on a given day (intelligence does not imply wisdom, and all that). [/QUOTE]

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