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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lamoni" data-source="post: 1141739" data-attributes="member: 12680">I wasn't suggesting that the cleric would be able to keep all his domains.  And I agree that swapping religions like playing cards is difficult.  But in the D&D world, all the dieties are very real.  You can ealisy believe in all the dieties, but just choose to work for one.  Then you could choose to work for another (you were good, but you were dissapointed by the lack of protection your god gave so you swap to Moradin (being a dwarf).  Then you decide you dislike so much structure and want to be more free to act while still promoting good so you swap to Elhonna.  The campaign world could have good relations between all the good gods so this could work.  Now let's assume that that isn't possible at all.  It still seems like most people here accept one conversion.  You could still slightly abuse the rules by selecting a diety that gave nice 1st through 3rd level domain spells, but not so good higher level ones.  You could then convert in order to get different domains that had nice high level spells, but not so good low level ones.  Obviously, this would require a lot of role playing and story building to make it feasable.  You wouldn't just say one day, "Hey, I want that other domain spell now so I will switch dieties."  I am not saying that any of this is bad or good.  I was just mentioning the consequences of allowing clerics to swap dieties.</blockquote>