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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8434373" data-attributes="member: 42582">No. That's not what the rules say. That's what you interpret the rules as requiring, and it is your interpretation that I have said is bizarre. Voadam has stated the rules:The same text is found <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/classes#Cleric" target="_blank">here</a>.And <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/appendix-b-gods-of-the-multiverse" target="_blank">Appendix B</a> gives us:This can be read (and I would read it) as saying that the GM establishes the setting, including the gods, and then the player considers the suggested domains - suggested by the GM, given that they're choosing the gods - and having done so, chooses a domain.There is a degree of ambiguity over where the balance of authority lies between player and GM. That's not entirely surprising - it is typical of a lot of RPG rules-writing where PC features depend on setting details.But it doesn't say anywhere that lists of gods and their associated domains published by WotC have any sort of force beyond being prompts and suggestions.If you resolve the ambiguity I noted in favour of the GM, then the player can't make any domain-related decision without talking to their GM. The lists don't have any special relevance: they're just examples/suggestions/things to consider.Yes, I know that.And my point is that it is tolerably clear that the whole issue of gods and domains is setting-specific. So if you regard the GM as in charge of all setting stuff, then the player needs the GM's permission to make any choice of god and domain, whether or not it is "non-conventional".The Appendix B lists, and the lists of names in the domains, are clearly just suggestions for possible setting choices. To quote the Life Domain text again (I think [USER=2209]@Voadam[/USER] already quoted this upthread):Almost any non-evil deity can claim influence over this domain, particularly agricultural deities (such as Chauntea, Arawai, and Demeter), sun gods (such as Lathander, Pelor, and Re-Horakhty), gods of healing or endurance (such as Ilmater, Mishakal, Apollo, and Diancecht), and gods of home and community (such as Hestia, Hathor, and Boldrei).That is not a statement of a rule telling a player what gods and domains are permitted! It's a bit of advice about what makes for a coherent setting.</blockquote>

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