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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7920928" data-attributes="member: 22779">Huh, well, I was going to respond to [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER] but, well, you folks have pretty much stolen my thunder and said everything I was going to say, only better.Funny thing is, in 5e, you're generally not a cleric of light or a cleric of war, that's just what people on message boards call them for short hand.&nbsp; There's a whole section in the PHB listing all sorts of deities with their related cleric domains to help players choose to be a cleric of ((Insert Deity Here)).&nbsp; Now, if you want to interpret domains as having actual existence in the game world, that's groovy, but, funnily enough, no game world actually presents them that way.&nbsp; What gets presented is a list of deities for the player to choose from and then domain gets chosen based on the deity.&nbsp; IOW, you're a cleric of Pelor or Lathander or whatever.&nbsp; My forge cleric wasn't a forge cleric.&nbsp; He was a cleric of Khossuth with the forge domain.&nbsp; Why did he have the forge domain?&nbsp; Because that's the domain that closest fit the concept I had for the character.&nbsp; But in character?&nbsp; I would never, ever describe myself as a Forge Domain Cleric.&nbsp; I was Khorbach Angist, high flame of Khossuth, long may the guilty burn in the pyre.&nbsp; Seems a rather shallow way to play to refer to myself as Khorbach Angist Forge Cleric.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp; Bleahhh Snore.&nbsp; Come back when you've actually got an interesting character thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7920928, member: 22779"] Huh, well, I was going to respond to [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER] but, well, you folks have pretty much stolen my thunder and said everything I was going to say, only better. Funny thing is, in 5e, you're generally not a cleric of light or a cleric of war, that's just what people on message boards call them for short hand. There's a whole section in the PHB listing all sorts of deities with their related cleric domains to help players choose to be a cleric of ((Insert Deity Here)). Now, if you want to interpret domains as having actual existence in the game world, that's groovy, but, funnily enough, no game world actually presents them that way. What gets presented is a list of deities for the player to choose from and then domain gets chosen based on the deity. IOW, you're a cleric of Pelor or Lathander or whatever. My forge cleric wasn't a forge cleric. He was a cleric of Khossuth with the forge domain. Why did he have the forge domain? Because that's the domain that closest fit the concept I had for the character. But in character? I would never, ever describe myself as a Forge Domain Cleric. I was Khorbach Angist, high flame of Khossuth, long may the guilty burn in the pyre. Seems a rather shallow way to play to refer to myself as Khorbach Angist Forge Cleric. :( Bleahhh Snore. Come back when you've actually got an interesting character thanks. [/QUOTE]

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