Does COUNTERSPELL work against the Rune Knights RUNES, for example? I got hit with FIRE RUNE in our last game. I did not think to use COUNTERSPELL at the time.
The RAW answer is no. However, the way you seem to be asking the question ("Had I tried cast Counterspell", would it have worked against the Rune?") is not a question about what RAW is, but how the game would have gone, and that would have been down to the DM. I can see some DMs ruling that it does work.
To give a parallel example, I was a Wizard in a game once and cast Knock in a locked door. RAW, the door should have opened, full stop. The DM decided by fiat that this one required a roll, which I failed and lost the spell slot as well (being level 1, that was a particularly nasty sting).
We don't know what the DM would have done...we.can just say that RAW, no, you couldn't cast Counterspell as it's not a spell.
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Does COUNTERSPELL work against the Rune Knights RUNES, for example? I got hit with FIRE RUNE in our last game. I did not think to use COUNTERSPELL at the time.
The rune is not a spell, so no, counterspell would not work against it.
Okay,
I would probably have died, had I not prayed to my "Master" for help. With Strength 8, I needed a 20 to pass the check.
This is a DM-specific ruling.
The RAW answer is no. However, the way you seem to be asking the question ("Had I tried cast Counterspell", would it have worked against the Rune?") is not a question about what RAW is, but how the game would have gone, and that would have been down to the DM. I can see some DMs ruling that it does work.
To give a parallel example, I was a Wizard in a game once and cast Knock in a locked door. RAW, the door should have opened, full stop. The DM decided by fiat that this one required a roll, which I failed and lost the spell slot as well (being level 1, that was a particularly nasty sting).
We don't know what the DM would have done...we.can just say that RAW, no, you couldn't cast Counterspell as it's not a spell.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
i feel like an anti-magic field would work against a rune but not a counterspell