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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4957953" data-attributes="member: 22424">If the restriction is in place for thematic reasons, then it isn't arbitrary.If they allowed open selection of domains, they lose any thematic element to the deities at all. If they give deities too wide a selection, then the deity loses focus, and becomes "god of a whole mess of stuff". So, ideally, they would want deities with 2-4 domains (my guess - I haven't seen the book in question).However, if you have some 20 domains in total, deities have a maximum of four of those, and characters choose two from the four, you need a lot of deities to make every combination a viable option. (Naturally, this is also at odds with the desire to have a compact set of deities for the setting, so as not to overwhelm players.)What's unfortunate in this case is that the 4e Forgotten Realms has deliberately trimmed the pantheon right back to only a core set of deities. Had the full set been retained, there would almost certainly have been a deity to fit.What I would suggest is putting this to your DM: my character would have followed deity X (the pre-4e deity most likely to have those domains), but his portfolio has been taken over by deity Y (the closest 4e deity). As such, would it be possible to follow that aspect of deity Y, and so select these two domains?</blockquote>