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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 1400783" data-attributes="member: 2067">You're not penalizing a cleric who chooses a specific deity, because domains are all pretty equal. All you're doing by providing domains for a deity-worshiping cleric is saying "this is what exists in the world now." So Pelor doesn't have a faction dedicated to War....well, if you want to be a War cleric, don't worship Pelor! That's why there's Heironeous! What, you want Sun, too? War and Sun? Well, then why even bother worshiping any deity, since none represent your clerical inclination?Forcing clerics to choose a deity is a bit pointless as a 'balancing' force. The only reason would be for world reasons -- and by default, clerics could worship Goodness and choose any two domains they wanted. And that's not a powerful thing, since all domains are roughly equal; he's getting no more benefit from War and Sun than he would from Healing and Protection. And it's not a controlling penalty on the god-worshiping cleric because they get to choose their own gods -- if a god existed that could grant War and Sun, you could choose that, and there's no real reason such a god doesn't exist.By default, there isn't a deity for every eventual combo of domains, so clerics can worship something else and get spells no problem.Belief is the force of a cleric's power. Belief in Goodness, or belief in Hieroneous doesn't matter. It's just that belief in Heironeous, you tend to particular domains, because the god wishes to encourage certain powers, and not others. You could worship Heironeous and choose any domains,too....but the God wouldn't nessecarily be supporting your choice.</blockquote>

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