I was goofing around with adapting some D&D deities from various sources (Forgotten Realms, Greek Mythology, some homebrew stuff, and various others) for the game I’m running and got to wondering what godly domains I could be using for them. This led me down the rabbit hole of trying to find a comprehensive list of domains to use for D&D gods.
“Greek Gods Serie” by Dilem Serbest is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Looking at real world examples was particularly interesting. Some gods have very broad domains (from Greek mythology, Poseidon is god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses), while others have unusually specific domains (Doushen is a Chinese god of smallpox).
I like the idea that in addition to a number of heavy hitters, you can have a heap of little gods that could add colour to a game. I keep thinking of Haku from Spirited Away. He’s a river god for one specific river, the Kohaku river.
I can imagine a new god called Vano, the god of eels and fens. I might use him in my game 🙂
So here is the list so far…
Agriculture
Air
Ale
Animal
Arcana
Art
Autumn
Avarice
Balance
Battle
Beauty
Bestial
Blacksmithing
Cavern
Change
Chaos
Charm
Child Birth
Children
Civilization
Cold
Commerce
Communication
Community
Corruption
Courage
Cowardice
Craft
Creation
Darkness
Day
Death
Deception
Demonic
Desire
Destruction
Diabolic
Domesticity
Dragon
Dragonborn
Dreams
Drow
Dwarf
Earth
Earthquakes
Elf
Envy
Evil
Family
Farming
Fate
Father
Fertility
Female
Fey
Fire
Fishing
Fog
Food
Force
Forge
Fortune
Freedom
Glory
Gluttony
Gnome
Gold
Good
Grain
Grave
Gravity
Greed
Halfling
Harvest
Hatred
Healing
Hearth
Herbal Medicine
Heroism
Home
Hope
Hunting
Human
Illusion
Insects
Inspiration
Justice
Knowledge
Law
Learning
Life
Light
Lightning
Love
Luck
Lust
Madness
Marketing
Marriage
Maternity
Medicine
Male
Mentalism
Messages
Metal
Mind
Mist
Moon
Mother
Mountains
Music
Nature
Night
Nobility
Ocean
Orc
Order
Pain
Patience
Pestilence
Plagues
Planning
Plants
Pleasure
Poetry
Poison
Portal
Pride
Prosperity
Protection
Psionics
Purity
Rain
Renewal
Repose
Retribution
Rivers
Rune
Scalykind
Sea
Secrets
Sex
Sexuality
Shadow
Skill
Sky
Slavery
Slime
Sloth
Snow
Speech
Spell
Spider
Spring
Spirit
Stone
Stories
Storm
Strategy
Strength
Strife
Suffering
Summer
Sun
Temperance
Tempest
Theatre
Thieves
Thunder
Tiefling
Time
Torment
Trade
Travel
Trickery
Truth
Tyranny
Undeath
Understanding
Underworld
Valleys
Vengeance
Virility
Volcanoes
War
Water
Watercourses
Watery Death
Wealth
Weaving
Wilderness
Wind
Wine
Winter
Wisdom
Wood
Woodlands
Wrath
Writing
Zeal