Counterspell and Watchdog

[arnej]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

Some other thoughts:
A properly designed Watchdog spell would be self-monitoring, and would alert the mage if it got cancelled or changed. The spell description says nothing about this, of course. If you've got schools of magic, presumably one of the bright profs thought of this already. If it's a bunch of independent iconoclasts, maybe your thief is the first one to notice the loophole. (And maybe you'd make a lot of money researching the ritual for Improved Watchdog.)

Which of course would lead to Silent Counterspell, to deal with it. And the arms race continues...

arnej