Originally Posted by JandK
Originally Posted by Saito Hikari
...when you experience a full party wipe and have to reload 20 minutes+ of gameplay because you couldn't save your counterspell for that fireball thrown at your party.

Fireballs have been thrown at characters since the birth of DnD, and counterspell wasn't always a thing.
Yep. "Kill the guy in a robe first" is one of the first lessons rpg players of all types learn