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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cam Banks" data-source="post: 3087599" data-attributes="member: 3817">In Dragonlance, mystics have a little more appeal because of the cleric's requirement of a patron deity. The freedom to choose their domain is one of the draws. That's not nearly as attractive in settings where you don't need a patron deity or domains are unrestricted, no.Sovereign Press has clarified and revised a number of things since the DLCS was released. Paladins aren't verboten any longer, for instance. Druids can have any god as their patron so long as they remain within one alignment step of their god and are still at least partially neutral - and they can justify the relationship. And in our recent Knightly Orders of Ansalon sourcebook we revised the Solamnic Knights so that Sword and Rose knights no longer get spells, although the Sword knight can take Clerist substitution levels.I am very wary of adding domains. A number of our prestige classes, designed for mystics, add a domain. This makes them appealing to players of mystics. As I said, I think it's far more useful to focus on the idea of mystics as channeling divine energy of their own accord, without the need for a deity, and give them positive or negative energy as a choice. We could choose one of the divine feats from Complete Warrior or Complete Divine, make that their default use of their positive/negative channel, and have turn undead be made available as a divine feat.Cheers,Cam</blockquote>