Critical Success Counteract the target if its counteract level is no more than 3 levels higher than your effect’s counteract level.
Success Counteract the target if its counteract level is no more than 1 level higher than your effect’s counteract level.
Failure Counteract the target if its counteract level is lower than your effect’s counteract level.
Critical Failure You fail to counteract the target.
(critical success and failures being when you roll ten or more higher or lower than the DC)
You expend a spell slot containing the same spell and roll to counter the cast spell, with varying possible degrees of success.
You can later specialize it in various interesting ways with feats, for example one that lets you spend a prepared spell from merely the same school, or with a spell that is especially thematically appropriate, or redirect the countered spell, or just eat it.
It’s a whole mechanic that you can build around, it’s exciting when it happens, you feel like you’ve earned it. It’s a reward for clever play as opposed to a button that you push.
Very cool! I’m sending this to my DM for a possible character in my next campaign. I do wonder if the shout could also inspire allies, as that seems pretty olympian to me, but that may be brushing too close to zealot and such.
The shout is actually pretty weak since most creatures at that level have fright immunity. It’s mostly for flavor. The heroic level effect is the +10 bonus after you roll, which is effectively a legendary resistance. Alternatively, you can use it to force grapple a powerful creature.
Very cool. It’s easy to read and comprehend and seems perfectly balanced. I also like the formatting, in particular the levels of the features listed the way they are.
Lemmy is not very active in the homebrew department, but just to let you know, there is a dedicated DnD homebrew community:
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