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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5926297" data-attributes="member: 1465">I seriously doubt that ALL spells known come from domains, unless there is also a possibility to not pick a domain. It really doesn't make any sense to shoehorn a cleric character so much that you can only pick the whole spells menu and be stuck with it until 20th level!---The following is certainly NOT how 5e domains will work, but it's just something that could have been one option:In Rokugan setting for 3.0, the only PC spellcasting class is the Shugenja, which conceptually is a mix between a cleric, a druid, and a wizard. They have to pick a "school", which is not like a typical D&D wizard shool like "abjuration" but it is truly one place (or network of places) where they study magic. This school is defined (among other things) by a list of spells (1 per spell level) which all their students learn, some of which are uniquely available to that school alone, but then every other spell the shugenja learns can come from the generic shugenja spells list.This is also combined with the fact that the school dictates their favorite element (fire, water, earth, air) and their forbidden element, and each shugenja is additionally bound to picking at least half her known spells from the favorite element.You end up with a pretty nice differentiation between shugenjas of different schools, and at the same time strong similarities between sjugenja of the same school (think that there are different schools favoring the same element BUT having totally different own spells list), because each shugenja knows:- one spell per level from her school (fixed, no choice)- at least half her spells at each level from her favourite element (you can choose which, but limited to such element)- the other half of her spells can be whatever she likes, but not spells unique to other schoolsI think this would work quite well for Clerics too, if you replace school with religion (i.e. your deity) or domain, and element with domain or some sort of more general specialization (e.g. healing, undead, protection, war).</blockquote>

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