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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7352705" data-attributes="member: 6919838">Thanks and I can understand wanting to rule the counterspell that way even though the wording of &quot;When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its energy, which you release with your reaction when the trigger occurs. &quot; would seem to read that the spell casting had been resolved. certainly a silence popping up after the ready-cast would not stop the spell in the &quot;between&quot; stage even if it had verbal components. But one of the things that came up in other places was the following example - even though some feel you should never ever ready a spell - based on the idea that counterspell would not work due to the casting being completed:caster of any sort near a wall or other source of total cover like say just a corner.caster is fighting intelligent enemies with counterspells.caster turn - step back 10' to get behind cover - unseen.caster casts ready spell with trigger when i see ABC (ABC being the preferred target in the other side of the cover.)caster steps out from behind cover and triggers because he can now see BC.spell goes off.caster still has say 10' of move and any bonus actions.At this point, the caster has traded about 20' of movement and his reaction for gaining a non-counterspell spell-casting.that is a simplified example but, even though some see ready spell as always the wrong answer, if the already readied spell and held energy is not subject to any/all the issues of &quot;active casting&quot; ready spell would seem to be a potentially very worthwhile tool.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7352705, member: 6919838"] Thanks and I can understand wanting to rule the counterspell that way even though the wording of "When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its energy, which you release with your reaction when the trigger occurs. " would seem to read that the spell casting had been resolved. certainly a silence popping up after the ready-cast would not stop the spell in the "between" stage even if it had verbal components. But one of the things that came up in other places was the following example - even though some feel you should never ever ready a spell - based on the idea that counterspell would not work due to the casting being completed: [I] caster of any sort near a wall or other source of total cover like say just a corner. caster is fighting intelligent enemies with counterspells. caster turn - step back 10' to get behind cover - unseen. caster casts ready spell with trigger when i see ABC (ABC being the preferred target in the other side of the cover.) caster steps out from behind cover and triggers because he can now see BC. spell goes off. caster still has say 10' of move and any bonus actions.[/I] At this point, the caster has traded about 20' of movement and his reaction for gaining a non-counterspell spell-casting. that is a simplified example but, even though some see ready spell as always the wrong answer, if the already readied spell and held energy is not subject to any/all the issues of "active casting" ready spell would seem to be a potentially very worthwhile tool. [/QUOTE]

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