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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 7669565" data-attributes="member: 61026">That's the way I'm leaning, too. If WotC were to add a new cleric variant (I cannot honestly call this a subclass) having a restricted spell list that is only about one-third to one-half as large as the spell list for the standard cleric, but which automatically gains new spells based on deity at defined variant-cleric levels, and which has its choice of domains limited to the domains that its chosen deity offers, then I think that would give the game a much greater variety of clerics having different feels in play. I'm thinking that the variant cleric should have access by default to all of the generic Cantrips except "Sacred Flame"; but there should also be almost as wide a variety of additional attack cantrips as there are 4E 1st-level At-Will attack spells, and the variant clerics should get one attack cantrip based on chosen Domain: • Tempest clerics could get something like 4E's "Singing Strike," dealing thunder damage; • Life clerics could get something like 4E's "Sacred Flame," which differs from the 5E version by buffing allies; • Light clerics could get the generic 5E cleric's "Sacred Flame" (straight radiant damage); • Clerics of Courage (if we get additional Domains) or War (Torm?) could get something courage-based like 4E's "Gaze of Defiance"; etc.</blockquote>