Counterspell Stacking
I understand mechanically per RAW that you can cast a spell, an enemy can cast counterspell on you, and you can then use your reaction to counterspell their counterspell, and your original spell can still go off. (I'm also using 5e rules in my campaign not OneD&D if that matters). This stacking has never made sense to me though if you are casting both. If I'm casting a spell, and then have to interrupt my spell to cast counterspell... how does that make sense for my spell to still work if I myself had to interrupt the cast? I understand how it can stack if someone ELSE casts counterspell against the enemy, but it doesn't make sense to me that you interrupt your spell to interrupt someone else's spell, and still cast the 1st spell. And I know that mechanically because it uses a reaction and not a bonus action it does technically work. But it atill doesn't make sense to me. ESPECIALLY if the spell requires somantic components since you'd have to interrupt the somantic to then do a different somantic for counterspell... thus stopping your spell... Please explain 😅