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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4959301" data-attributes="member: 4937">No, that's not what I said.  There are several reasons to think that the choice of which dieties get the Skill domain would not be arbitrary.In the FR, there is a very long list of dieties which are clear choices to recieve the skill domain - Tymora (who had it in 3e) and Gond for example.  If you are assigning domain combinations to FR dieties, there is really no reason to shoe horn the Skill domain into a particular dieties portfolio because there are already plenty of dieties to choose from that have it.  Of course, none have both skill and strength, but as I said, that seems reasonable from the description.In Eberron, with a much smaller set of dieties, there is good reason to shoe horn poorly represented choices into a dieties portfolio to balance the pantheon as a whole.  It is not at all arbitrary to say something like, "Hmmm... I've handed out the most intuitive domains to each diety, but under my current scheme only one good aligned diety has the skill domain (or whatever domain seems underrepresented)... now, which diety is short on domains and most seems plausible to gain the skill domain."  When you are assigning domains you aren't creating deities in isolation.Likewise, there is another very good reason to think that some other than an abitrary whim might be in play when assigning the Skill domain, and that is that pretty much everyone seems to agree that objectively its just better than every other domain.  'Power of Skill' comes up repeatedly when people talk about which feats are most broken or abusable.  As such, if you aren't careful about how and where you assign it, you'll end up in a situation where pretty much every PC takes it as one of their choices.</blockquote>

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