D&D General When Did Counterspell First Appear?

[R_J_K75]

Found it. I wasn't clear, I had the pdf open and wasn't finding it. But I've got it now -- It's actually in 2E Players Options: High Level Campaigns. Starting p. 101 there's about 20 pages of mage dueling rules. Still no spell called counterspell, and it certainly doesn't beat Chainmail for being first, but absolutely solid rules on base concept: countering a spell as it is being cast.

20 pages huh? No wonder we didn't use those rules. In all honesty, the 2E Player Options were pretty good. Pseudo 3E IMO.

 

[Marc Radle]

Sorry for the slight derail, but this is a fantastic and epic use of counterspell:

 

[billd91]

Sam had some absolutely clutch counterspell moments in campaign 1. It’s one of the reasons I am content to have the potential tactic in the D&D rules even though it is occasionally frustrating. Imposing some frustration is a good thing.

 

[MuhVerisimilitude]

In 2e, I believe Counterspell as an official spell came around with the BG and infinity engine game series. I'd have to check again, but I think they had it in there.

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure there is no support for reactive spells in any of the infinity engine games.