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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 6335518" data-attributes="member: 23935">The way I set up the priest orders was the default cleric was a pantheist -- he knew all the common rituals for all the gods and was often called upon for services.  A generalist cleric could take any two domains offered by the pantheon (the three pantheons each had one or two domains the others did not).  There were also clerics dedicated to specific gods.  Less a prestige class and more a specialist, the dedicated cleric had to have two domains offered by the patron deity and had a couple of minor social benefits or restrictions -- clerics of Ares and Athena would have nothing to do with each other, for example.  Dedicated clerics often filled more specialised roles -- so a cleric of Hermes might be called to adjudicate a complaint or witness a contract, for example.  If a dedicated cleric failed his deity in a major way, he got treated thereafter as a generalist though it never came up in the campaign.  Some of the gods had specific base or prestige classes that could only be accessed by devout worshippers -- Ares had a berserker cult. Athena had paladins.  Artemis had druids.  These prestige classes had similar restrictions on behaviour as dedicated clerics.</blockquote>