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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6272201" data-attributes="member: 1465">Yes, same here. I wouldn't mind if they tuck some options in the DMG, but a wide range of domains is very helpful for me as a DM, not just for players.Perhaps it shouldn't be different, but for some reason I don't feel so worried about wizard schools. Maybe the reason is that 3e wizard specialization rules taught me that the best way to make a specialist is usually to be a generalist and just pick your spells wisely. Thus even without specialization rules, I could still differentiate wizards through spells selection. In theory, you could do the same for clerics BUT it doesn't feel the same when the spell selection is not permanent. I.e. wizards pick what spells they know, thus the choice is critical, while clerics pick what spells they prepare but if there is no other way to differentiate them, a Cleric of Nature can effectively tomorrow look like a Cleric of Knowledge and the next day a Cleric of War... it just doesn't feel like you are really differentiating religions in this way.Secondarily, for some reasons in world building religions is my favourite tool to create conflicts, motivations (both for heroes and villains) and story hooks. It's just an unlimited pools of opportunities for quests and adventures. In theory I guess it could be the same with magic schools, necromancers vs diviners vs evoker etc., but for some reason it doesn't work the same way for me.For these two reasons, as both a player and DM, lack of clerical domains worries me more than lack of wizard specializations.That said, they already designed 8 "Deities" (back when the cleric subclass was deity rather than domain), it shouldn't be hard to adapt those into the final domain structure. I don't expect the 20+ domains of 3e but 8 is already much better than 3.Actually, with a reasonable effort they could salvage most of the previously designed subclasses for the other classes as well, including the Wizard's generalist subclass ("Scholarly Wizard").</blockquote>

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