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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6717798" data-attributes="member: 996">I am not forgetting the one and only such priest in the 2e PH:  The Druid.  It is in 5e, as a full class.Whether Domains cut it for customizing a Cleric to a specific mythos is another question, and a fair one.  The method suggested in 2e was comparable to the UA article about changing up classes to get the spell-less Ranger and Favored Soul.  It could even be compared to simply creating new classes, outright, for different flavors of Cleric (as the Druid is distinct from a Cleric with a Nature Domain, these classes would be distinct from mere Domain choices).  That sort of thing could be done, deity-by-deity, in setting materials and even adventures, if a preisthood played some part in them, for instance.  OTOH, the Complete Priest Handbook gave a more systematic method that might be adapted to a more-customizeable divine caster than the Cleric - presumably called the Priest - that might range from something much less militant than the typical cleric (more like a wizard in terms of hp and mundane combat training), to something with a few specific proficiencies like the Druid, to a full warrior-priest (with MC'ing being a way of going further).  It'd be a new sort of class design for 5e, where classes aren't customized in detail, instead the player is given more packaged/complete choices like Background, Sub-Class, and 5e's 'bigger' Feats.</blockquote>