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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 531133" data-attributes="member: 3649">Three things come to mind:1. The cleric gains his power through belief in his pantheon as a whole, rather than selecting one particular deity to worship. I'd say in that case, he should be limited to Domains actually available to that pantheon. (For instance, in my Ashara campaign, no god has - or even could have - access to the  Magic domain, so no 'generalist' cleric could take it).2. The cleric gains his power from the many, many attendent spirits any pantheon is going to have. Thus he can pick and choose what powers he chooses to manifest. In some ways this is almost like Druidic magic. This is what I use in my current campaigns.3. It's a mechanism for use when you simply don't have a group of gods made up, and someone wants to play a cleric.I've always seen cleric as channels. It has nothing to do with their force of will; they are a mere conduit for their god, who uses them to work his terrestrial Will. So, yeah, there has to be something 'behind' them granting them power.</blockquote>