Polyhedral Pantheons and Divine Trappings both depend on having a broad selection of domains.

That need seems to be met pretty handily.

Paizo Domains, Third-Party Domains, and Druid Domains

I see three distinct sets of domains (plus a fourth that exists only on this blog, that I’ll be writing more about in a week or so).

Paizo has published 35 domains I’m considering the core. They’re a little generic, but they cover most of the major subjects that could be expected in a pantheon: Death, War, the elements, Magic.. things almost all societies could expect to be interested in. They’ve also published 137 subdomains that modify these domains. Of these 137 subdomains, 15 each modify two domains.

Third-party publishers have published 55 domains (that I’ve captured so far), and these tend to be more specific. This can be good (more specific tends to be more interesting) and bad (more specific can be harder to apply generally). I’ll want to keep these separate so I can focus on the more generic and easier to apply for early development, and have these other domains available for more detailed development. I’ve also captured almost 40

There is another special set of domains available for use by druids. This includes a small subset of the core set, plus animal domains and terrain domains. I’ll keep these separated as well, but will have Paizo and third-party domains in the same table.

All told I’ve got 115 rows in this spreadsheet of just domains (of all three types), plus 175 subdomains to work with.

I’m sure I haven’t gotten them all yet, but it’s a start.

Paizo Domain Table

Paizo has published 33 domains in the Core Rulebook, and it looks like two others (Void and Scalykind) in later supplements. These cover the major elements expected of a pantheon: death, magic, war, the weather, and so on.

They also have published a slew of subdomains that modify these domains, which works to represent lesser aspects of those domains. Air has the Cloud, Lightning, and Wind subdomains. I have included the subdomains in this table because they represent portfolios that might use the domain, or even just different interpretations of the domain.

I have also included third-party publisher subdomains for the same reason and completeness, but kept them in a separate column to make it easier to differentiate them.

The roll on this table is done using ‘d66’: treat this like d%, but using a pair of six-sided dice instead. Pick two six-sided dice of different colors, designate one as primary and one is secondary, roll both and concatenate their values (so ‘1’ and ‘2’ are ’12’, and ‘2’ and ‘1’ are ’21’, and neither pair make ‘3’).

d66	Domain	Paizo Subdomains	3pp Subdomains
11	Air	Cloud, Lightning, Wind	Zephyr
12	Animal	Feather, Fur, Insect	Fin
13	Artifice	Alchemy, Construct, Toil	Industry
14	Chaos	Azata, Demodand, Demon, Entropy, Protean, Revelry, Riot, Whimsy:ISG, Whimsy:PCBoA
15	Charm	Captivation, Love, Lust
16	Community	Cooperation, Education, Family, Home	Fellowship, Friend, Lughnasadh
21	Darkness	Loss, Moon, Night, Shadow	Starlight, Yule
22	Death	Murder, Plague, Psychopomp, Shadow, Undead	Mortality
23	Destruction	Catastrophe, Hatred, Rage, Torture	Ruin
24	Earth	Caves, Metal, Petrification, Radiation	Dolmen, Stone
25	Evil	Cannibalism, Corruption, Daemon, Demodand, Demon, Devil, Fear, Kyton, Plague
26	Fire	Arson, Ash, Smoke	Litha, Magma
31	Glory	Heroism, Honor, Hubris, Legend	Radiance
32	Good	Agathion, Archon, Azata, Friendship, Redemption	Angel:Deva
33	Healing	Medicine, Restoration, Resurrection	Care, Ostara
34	Knowledge	Aeon, Education, Espionage, Memory, Thought	Scrying
35	Law	Archon, Devil, Inevitable, Judgment, Kyton, Legislation, Loyalty:ISG, Loyalty:PCBoA, Slavery, Tyranny:ISG, Tyranny:PCBoF
36	Liberation	Freedom, Revolution, Self-Realization	Independence
41	Luck	Curse, Fate, Imagination	Chance
42	Madness	Insanity, Nightmare, Truth
43	Magic	Alchemy, Arcane, Divine, Rites	Spell
44	Nobility	Aristocracy, Hubris, Leadership, Martyr
45	Plant	Decay, Growth, Leshy, Thorns	Harvest, Mabon
46	Protection	Defense, Fortifications, Purity, Solitude	Imbolc, Shelter
51	Repose	Ancestors, Psychopomp, Souls
52	Rune	Language, Legislation, Wards	Ogham, Portents
53	Scalykind	Dragon, Saurian, Venom
54	Strength	Competition, Ferocity, Fist, Resolve, Self-Realization	Might
55	Sun	Day, Light, Revelation, Thirst	Bethane, Warmth
56	Travel	Exploration, Portal, Trade	Quest
61	Trickery	Ambush, Deception, Espionage, Greed, Innuendo, Thievery	Beggar, Secrecy
62	Void	Dark Tapestry, Isolation, Stars
63	War	Blood, Duels, Tactics	Ally, Armor
64	Water	Flotsam, Flowing, Ice, Oceans, Rivers	Mist
65	Weather	Monsoon, Seasons, Storms	Winter
66	—	—	—

Some subdomains apply to multiple primary domains.

• Alchemy (Artifice, Magic)
• Archon (Good, Law)
• Azata (Chaos, Good)
• Demodand (Chaos, Evil)
• Demon (Chaos, Evil)
• Devil (Evil, Law)
• Education (Community, Knowledge)
• Espionage (Knowledge, Trickery)
• Hubris (Glory, Nobility)
• Kyton (Evil, Law)
• Legislation (Law, Rune)
• Plague (Death, Evil)
• Psychopomp (Death, Repose)
• Self-Realization (Liberation, Strength)
• Shadow (Darkness, Death)

In many cases I would consider these candidates for hybrid domains, domains that are associated with two instead of one (and count as either or both for prerequisite purposes). I’ve written about hybrid domains before, and plan to again a little later in this month.

There are also a few subdomains (Loyalty, Tyranny, Whimsy) that Paizo published twice, with substantive differences (usually the second granted power, and at least once in the spell lists). If they were substantively the same I would have merged them, but because of the differences I differenced the names and kept both. Normally I’d keep the later or higher-prestige copy (i.e. hardcover ‘Adventures’ or ‘Ultimate’ book, especially if it is newer than the softcover Player’s Companion book) if the differences look like just a matter of changed wording or minor clarification, but in these cases it looks like the differences are bigger.

Third-Party and Other Domains

The Echelon Reference Series currently has 55 domains from third-party publishers. I’ll present them in a ‘d88’ table (like d66 above, but with two eight-sided dice), in four sets to keep the page length down. They don’t have subdomains (in fact, I’d like turn many of them into subdomains or hybrid domains), so I don’t need to allow the extra space

d88	Domain	d88	Domain	d88	Domain	d88	Domain
11	Abomination	31	Fate	51	Omen	71	Vengeance
12	Affinity	32	Father Dagon	52	Orc	72	Vigilance
13	Attunement	33	Father of Wendigo	53	Pleasure	73	Wind
14	Balance	34	Gnome	54	Psychic	74	Winter
15	Bokrug	35	Godling	55	Renewal	75	Writing
16	Cannibalism	36	Great Race of Yith	56	Retribution	76	Yig
17	Cold Iron	37	Halfling	57	Sea	77	Yog-Sothoth
18	Cosmic	38	Hastur	58	Seidhr	78
21	Cthulhu	41	Heaven	61	Serpent	81
22	Cult of the Mi-Go	42	Ice	62	Shoggoth	82
23	Dead	43	Length	63	Shub-Niggurath	83
24	Desert	44	Moon:0One	64	Sleep	84
25	Destruction	45	Moon:DW	65	Song	85
26	Dream	46	Music	66	Time:4WF	86
27	Dwarf	47	Nyarlathotep	67	Time:DW	87
28	Elf	48	Ocean	68	Unspeakable	88

Some of these are deity-specific, or at least Old One specific… I don’t know how much use I’d have for them in initial construction, but I keep them here for completeness.

Other domains look like they would be good subdomains, at least based on name. Serpent seems like a reasonable subdomain of Scalykind, Wind is a subdomain of Air, and so on. I suspect many of these actually predate Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player’s Guide.

Regardless, they’re here if I need them. I’m keeping them separate from the core domains because I don’t expect to use them as much, but they are here.

Animal and Terrain Domains

Druids in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game can take a domain as their nature bond. This can be one of a selection of cleric domains, animal domains, or terrain domains. I’ve arranged the animal and terrain domains so they include both Paizo-published and third-party published domains, and the die used determines whether only the first or both sets are used.

d8	Cleric Domain	d5/d12	Animal Domain	d8/d20	Terrain Domain
1	Air	1	Eagle	1	Aquatic
2	Animal	2	Frog	2	Arctic
3	Earth	3	Monkey	3	Cave
4	Fire	4	Serpent	4	Desert
5	Plant	5	Wolf	5	Jungle
6	Water	6	Bat	6	Mountain
7	Weather	7	Boar	7	Plains
8	reroll	8	Eel	8	Swamp
		9	Fox	9	Forest
		10	Lion	10	Hills
		11	Rat	11	Sky
		12	Ursine	12	Volcanic
				13	Waves
				14-20	reroll

As above, the druid domains are probably more specific than ideal for initial pantheon construction. They still have value when developing the pantheon further, and I can imagine a pantheon where deities have strong associations with various animals or lands, and these domains actually would be used in initial selection.

Closing Comments

So. Many. Domains.

But so useful for my purposes. I’m going to focus on fleshing out the primary domains first, then maybe the druid domains. The third-party domains tend to be pretty specialized, so I might do them last of the domains… or even after the subdomains.

I’m also really tempted to review the third-party and druid domains, to see if I can find ways to integrate them into the regular domains.

Or as hybrid domains.

NOT NOW! I’ve got other things to do. But this is on my list.