Domains and Changing Gods

[Dog Moon]

Say you had decided not to choose a patron God and chose your two Domains. Then, as you played, you encountered the workings of some God and were later converted. Would you be forced to surrender your current Domains and abilities and take those of the God or would the God allow you to continue using those Domains even if they aren't 100% compatible?

[Nowhere near as extreme as choosing Law and then worshipping a Chaotic Deity; it would be more along the lines of taking Charm and then being conveted to Mask, for example.]

Are there any rules on this sort of thing?

 

[Jdvn1]

To my knowledge, there aren't rules that cover this specifically, but since spells and domains come from your deity, you'd probably have to change domains.

 

[Alzrius]

The closest rules are in the FRCS, where you (after performing your atonement to be accepted by the new deity) have to choose new domains that that deity offers.

 

[Li Shenron]

I think so too... it makes very sense to conform to every other cleric of the same deity.

BTW, it's being a godless cleric which is an undeserved privilege for the PC, it's not being an actual priest a disadvantage

 

[Krelios]

It's not a matter of "allowing" it. The only domains a deity can grant are those listed. Mask simply cannot grant domains outside of his portfolio.

 

[Li Shenron]

It's not a matter of "allowing" it. The only domains a deity can grant are those listed. Mask simply cannot grant domains outside of his portfolio.

But I see his point: who grants domains to a godless cleric? If no god in particular does so, why should he drop his previous domains when choosing a god?

 

[Dog Moon]

I don't know if WOTC has dealt with the problem of people who don't have a patron deity. In the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting:

"Characters of Toril nearly always have a patron deity. Everyone in Faerun knows that those who die without having a patron deity to send a servant to collect them from the Fugue Plane at their death spend eternity writing in the Wall of the Faithless or disappear into the hells of the devils or the infernos of the demons."

They seem to assume that because of this, everyone automatically has a patron deity. The only example I know of where someone specifically doesn't have a patron deity is the Ur-Priest and at least in the Book of Vile Darkness, the Ur-Priest doesn't have domains or the abilities which come with the domains, nor does the Ur-Priest spontaneously cast inflict or cure wounds. I don't know if that's how anyone who doesn't worship a deity is supposed to be though...

As for the Domains, I could see a deity not willing to let you keep ones from a different deity or those opposed to the ideas of the deity, but assuming a Cleric without a patron deity still has spells and Domains, I don't see why the deity wouldn't let you keep them if you already had them and they are powered by some other source, a source which I am unsure of since I don't know who would grant spellcasting to a patronless Cleric.