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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MiraMels" data-source="post: 7566354" data-attributes="member: 6855497">The one thing that I am a stickler about (and i don't know if i'd recommend this to anyone, this is almost assuredly far too finicky of a ruling, but alas) is that, if a character wants to cast counterspell while in the middle of casting some other spell (you know, if they started casting a spell and someone else tried to counter it, and they'd like to counter to the counter to their spell themselves), they need an additional free hand to provide the somatic components to cast counterspell.  The hand that is providing the components (somatic or somatic/material) for your original spell is already busy, so you can't just weave the complete somatic component for a counterspell into the middle of the somatic components for cloudkill. But if you're casting that cloudkill with your left hand, and your right hand is free? Go ahead and cast that counterspell.</blockquote>