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Message: <blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8877503" data-attributes="member: 71235">Well, you could do a system where everybody declares what they are going to do before resolving actions, and different types of actions take different amounts of time to execute, and you could say you can abort your planned action to interrupt with an n-tick delay after someone begins an action you might like to interrupt, so that you can calculate whether somebody could finish their declared interrupt before the other person finishes the action being interrupted, or switch tasks to do something else (including interrupting the interrupt).Whew. I'm exhausted just thinking about that. (Good thing CRPGs and MMOs can rely on CPU cycles to calculate all that crap.)Or you could say everybody gets one interrupt (reaction) per round—spend it wisely—and allow that one level of nesting in spite of any absurdity because that's all you're going to get anyhow. If you want to blow your one reaction and a second spell slot (of the level of the spell you're trying to pull off, or better!) to counterspell a counterspell, I say go for it. Round-by-round combat has never been remotely realistic, so I am not going to quibble the physics of reaction times in that context.</blockquote>