<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=318428.msg15349753#msg15349753">Quote from: Nastara on 04-04-2020, 02:39:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">@keyotess re: counterspell!<br/><br/>So when I as a GM am making a move in response to a 6- a certain amount of Oomph needs to happen. So I can frame things two main ways, hard moves or soft moves! Hard moves happen and are DONE, you can't stop it, it was too quick! Soft moves set up a bad situation. There's a spectrum of hardness to moves, for example...<br/>Softest Move: The Orc touches his sword<br/>Still Soft: The Orc draws his sword<br/>Soft: The orc swings his sword at you<br/>Medium: The orc swings his sword at you, pushing you back to the wall, you thump into it nowhere to go (note how I've taken away an option of trying to run here!)<br/>Hard: The orc stabs you, take damage<br/>Harder: The orc chops off your hand<br/>Harderer: The orc stabs you through, killing you<br/>Hardest: The orc atabs you through and Death lifts your soul, looks at it contemptuously and says "No" before slicing your existence out of time forever <br/><br/>The more chance there I to stop or reverse something, the softer of a move it is!<br/>One thing I can try to do is specify if I'm doing move that is specifically too hard to stop. That usually will be after other 6- results, kind of like an avalanche of bad!<br/><br/>In terms of your examples:<br/>Example 1: you couldn't stop the spell. The spell was the action Scarlet made and the GM Move- was it getting too powerful, not the casting of a spell. <br/><br/>Example 2: You CAN stop the spell. The GM move was announcing future badness, I showed the kind of bad bitch Diralisk is and then tacked on some spellwork. It's totally free to take out!<br/><br/>Always feel free to put counter spells into a pose if Mirwen is in a position you think she can! . If it's too late, I can just tell you. But as a fan of the characters (another of the rules I need to follow!) I have to encourage badass moments! :)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Okay, that all makes sense. :)  I am working out how to use Counterspell now, since it is a reaction instead of an action, so not a normal action.  Another question about Counterspell.  I take an Action:  like Cast a spell, can I also post that she is ready to launch a counter spell in the same post?  Or is that too many actions in one post?<br/><br/>Example: Fighting against Diralisk, on Mirwen's "turn" she casts a spell to Purify Radja of the lust poison that Diralisk has infected the giant with.  At end of post, I write in that Mirwen is ready to counter a spell that the evil Diralisk might cast.  On Diralisk's "turn" she tries to cast a spell, and Mirwen uses the held Counterspell to try to counter the evil witch! ;)<br/><br/>And my post has been adjusted. :)  Mirwen and Scarlet are talking in the middle of the staircase, Marm is either going forward or waiting for their help across the floor of Inn, depending on how much fire and smoke is in their way. :)<br/><br/>Although next turn, Mirwen's next spell is to create a bubble of clean air. :D