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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8430554" data-attributes="member: 6915329">It's not. Dragonlance god Branchala has the domain of Light. His portfolio is not light, though; his portfolio is music. Dwarf god Abbathor and Realms god Waukeen both have the domain of Trickery. Neither of them are trickster gods. Abbathor is the god of greed and Waukeen is the god of wealth and trade. Since there wasn't, and still isn't, a wealth domain, they were assigned Trickery instead. Waukeen also grants Knowledge, but she's not a god of knowledge either.Ghaunadaur has the War domain, but he's the god of oozes and outcasts, not war or even just fighting. In some cases, possibly even the majority of cases, the granted clerical domains are the same as the god's portfolio. Gods of war are going to have the War domain. But domains are not portfolios at all. The PHB only mentions the word portfolio once, when saying there's an overlap in the portfolios of some Oeridian gods. While the DMG uses the word a few more times, it at no point says they're the same thing as cleric domains. The closest it comes to that is when it discusses monotheism and says that you can pick an aspect of the god you want to promote and a cleric domain that best fits that.But nowhere in the books does it say that domain = portfolio.</blockquote>