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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 4700108" data-attributes="member: 5122">Sure it is.I agree.  It would be nice if the rules said that.  Instead, you had to.Right.  Which it does.Earthquake is a seventh-level domain spell.As a domain spell, the cleric cannot prepare it in additional slots unless it is on the cleric list.  Which it is.Note that at no point does earthquake stop being a seventh-level domain spell.So it is a seventh-level domain spell, that, because it is on the cleric spell list, can be prepared in other slots.  Since it's a seventh-level spell, those other slots can be seventh-level slots.That is the counter-argument, and by the SRD, so far as I can tell, it holds up fine.As I've said, I agree with the other argument, but that doesn't make the above argument logically invalid.  The issue is that the rules introduce an exception without properly limiting the scope of the exception.  We can induce that the exception is intended to be limited, but we cannot deduce that.  (At least not by the SRD.  I still haven't checked the PHB.)"A cleric spell that appears as a lower-level domain spell can only be prepared, at that lower level, in the cleric's domain slot."  Or, to paraphrase how you put it, "A domain spell that also appears on the cleric list can be prepared in other slots under the normal rules."That's a statement, not a restatement, because the rules are otherwise ambiguous.  And it would take hundreds of such clarifications to amount to any appreciable additional page count, even assuming the section couldn't have been written more accurately and concisely in the first place.Of course, I realize at this point nobody will be able to admit it's ambiguous, so I've wasted my time typing this.  I wish I'd thought of that 10 minutes ago.</blockquote>

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