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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 1271885" data-attributes="member: 87">But at that point the damage has been done, the spell has been countered.  They walk 20', start another spell, you do it again.  And again.Silence is broken as written at 2nd level if it is allowed to be a near perfect counterspell.  I don't allow it.  Art of Magic contains new rules dealing with spell timing in combat which prevents silence (and most all spells for that matter) from being used to interrupt an enemy caster.  One of the reasons for this is that counterspelling is a major theme in Art of Magic, which shouldn't be surprising given it's roots.  There are many spells in the book whose primary function is to counterspell, and allowing silence to be a near universal counter (in addition to everything else it does) undermines all of them.</blockquote>