Empath Negative
First Post
Pure RP restriction, nothing to do with game balance. Adapt the PrC to suit your deity, and clear with your DM, who hopefully won't give you crap about it.
If Ordained Champion is out, just go straight Cleric. Good enough for melee brute any day of the week!
This is one of the times I'm not so sure.
Reason being that War Domain grants weapon focus and proficiency with the deities favored weapon. Some weapons are "more equal" than others.
Being able to create a war deity and list the Spiked Chain, Scythe, or similar weapon as their favored weapon could be... unbalancing.