Almost done with the new domains I need for to round out my campaign’s pantheon. The Beauty domain is a little bonkers, probably too nutty for a print product. What do you think? Beauty can both bend minds and inspire hearts. It is the force that compels others to lose control and give in to their impulses, but it can also awaken strength and determination to steel a forlorn heart. Clerics of Beauty bring joy and hope to the world. They are the beacon of light that reminds us that some things are worth fighting for. They seek to bring peace and amity among the world’s folk. They fight only when they must, and prefer to use their magic to end fights with as little bloodshed as possible.
Beauty Domain Spells Cleric Level Spells 1st charm person, heroism 3rd enthrall, suggestion 5th beacon of hope, hypnotic pattern 7th charm monster, compulsion 9th dominate person, hold monster Beauty’s Refuge Starting at 1st level, your mere presence is enough to inspire hope and determination in others. When you complete a short or long rest, up to 12 allies of your choice gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
Rebuke the Defiler When you select this domain at 1st level, you gain the ability to rebuke those who lash out at your in violence. As a reaction when a creature you can see within 30 feet of you inflicts damage, you force that creature to make a Wisdom save. On a failed saving throw, it takes psychic damage equal to the damage dealt. On a successful save, it takes half that damage. If the creature made multiple attacks, select one attack to determine the damage dealt. If the creature used one or more effects that damaged multiple targets, choose the damage take by one of those targets from one of the effects. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.
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Channel Divinity: Beauty’s Truce Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to quell the flame of violence. As an action, you force all creatures within 100 feet of you to make Charisma saving throws. Each creature that fails this saved is charmed by every other creature that also failed the saving throw. This benefit lasts for one hour. While charmed by this ability, creatures consider all other creatures charmed by it to be their allies. They fight to defend them from attackers. While this ability persists, absent any threat creatures charmed by it will rest, talk among themselves, share stories of their lives, create a communal feast using food and drink they carry, and generally act as if they are old friends, long separated and brought together again for a joyous reunion.
Superior Refuge Starting at 6th level, the temporary hit points granted by your Beauty’s Refuge ability increase to 5 + your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
Potent Cantrip Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.
Soul of Beauty Starting at 17th level, you become an avatar of unearthly beauty. Your enemies attack with uncertainty, fearful of damaging the wondrous being they behold, while your magic draws upon your presence to augment its power. As a reaction, you can impose a penalty on a creature’s attacks against you or on its saving throws against your spells and abilities. This benefit lasts until the end of the current turn. The penalty equals your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). pic.twitter.com/DbA9MrPEzP

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018

The basic design conceit – give the player the option to turn ANYTHING into a roleplay encounter.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018

Question on Rebuke Defiler.

If the damage over your Max HP, does it reflect back ALL damage, or just up to what your HP was? I’d run with all damage – the system does care about the overage, since it might instant kill, so that’s not dropped

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018

[Soul of Beauty] says:
“As a reaction, you can impose a penalty on a creature’s attack roll against you [….] This benefit lasts until the end of your current turn.”

So this feature doesn’t function against anything but Opportunity Attacks? ‘your’ should be ‘the’

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018

Have you play tested Beauty’s Truce? Do they lose their old allegiances, even if they favour their new as it were? Does it just resolve into a three way fight?

— James Green (@Jim1810) July 8, 2018

None of this has seen play. Darkness and Destruction written Thursday and Friday night, fell asleep at my keyboard on both. Beauty written in between taking the cat to the vet and getting ready for a party this evening. So, use at your own risk until I make revisions. https://t.co/c6Zp4rZMNV

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018

Requests for Darkness and Destruction. Working on Moon, conceptually trickier, want to hit the right tone with that one. Maybe tomorrow. Destruction Domain
Custom built for clerics of Grummsh, and perhaps Tiamat
Destruction Domain Spells aeric Level spells 1st inflict wounds, wrathful smite 3rd enlarge/reduce, shatter 5th fireball, lightning bolt 7th ice storm, staggering smite 9th doud kill, destruct. wave Armed for Destruction When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons.
Destructive Fury Starting at 1st level, you can channel divine energy to enter a destructive frenzy. As a bonus action, you gain 5 temporary hit points and a +1 bonus to weapon damage rolls. This benefit lasts for one minute. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest. When you use this ability, you can expend a spell slot to augment its effects. You gain additional temporary hit points equal to three times the sloes level and a bonus to weapon damage rolls equal to half the sloes level (minimum 1). This benefit lasts for one minute.
Channel Divinity: Sundering Invocation Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity. to channel destructive energy. As an action, you touch a creature or a an unattended object within reach. A creature must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 5 times your cleric level thunder damage on a failed saving throw and half as much on a successful one. An unattended object takes 5 times your cleric level thunder damage.
Appetite for Destruction Starting at 6th level, your destructive acts fuel further expressions of devastation. If you kill a creature or destroy an object with a weapon attack, you can use your reaction to immediately make one additional weapon attack.
You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). You regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.
Divine Strike Starting at 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.
Hand of Devastation Starting at 17th level, your spells deliver exceptional power. When you roll damage for a spell, roll twice the listed number of dice. You then choose from among the rolled dice the results you wish to use to determine the spell’s damage. You must select dice that match the quantity and type normally rolled to determine the spell’s damage.

Darkness Domain
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Custom built for clerics of 4clis, and perhaps Lolth.
Darkness Domain Spells Cleric Level Spells ist arms of Mg”, hex 3rd blindness/deafness, darkness Sth fear, vampiric touch 7th blight, Cvard’q black tentades 9th contagion, enervation Child of Night When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain the chill touch cantrip. If you do not have darkvision, you gain it with orange of 30 feet Shield of Ineffable Darkness Starting at 1st level, you can invoke the power of darkness to punish anyone fool enough to harm you. As a reaction when a creature you can see damages you, you cause that creature to become blinded until the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.
Channel Divinity: Shadow Spawn Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to fade into the darkness. As a bonus action, you become a creature of darkness that can blend into the shadows. You gain advantage on all Dexterity (Stealth) checks. If a creature cannot see you, your spells and attacks deal maximum damage to them. The shadows seem to draw around, as if they seek to protect you. This benefit lasts for one minute.
Hungry Darkness Starting at 6th level, your Shield of Ineffable Darkness becomes more powerful. When you use it, you can select up to three additional, hostile creatures you can see within 30 feet of you. They are also blinded until the end of your next turn. Potent Cantrip Sorting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.
Soul of Darkness Sorting at 17th level, you gain strength from darkness. As a bonus action, you fade into the shadows. You regain hit points equal to your cleric level and gain resistance to all damage for one minute. In addition, while this duration lasts you can use a bonus action to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is in dim light or darkness. pic.twitter.com/iewjiEVdvq

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018

Hand of Devastation is simultaneously confusing, too good, and too weak. Might make it much lower level. Basic idea – roll twice the dice, pick the highest half for each die type. Felt pretty chaotically destructive to me, might knock it down to 1st level, since it just scales up

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018

@JeremyECrawford Interesting point in Dragon Talk today, you mentioned the "natural melee weapon" language of the minotaur's horns means it works with Divine Smite (and magic weapon?).

That seems at odds with previous answers regarding bite attacks. Is this a revision?

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) May 15, 2018

Or are PC minotaur horns/centaur hooves somehow mechanically different from a monster minotaur's horns/monster centaur's hooves?

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) May 15, 2018

That was part of a discussion about the magic weapon spell. I stated that it was meant to be cast on weapons that are objects, but that casting it on natural weapons would break nothing.

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 15, 2018

Gotcha. So paladins can smite with whatever natural weapons by intent, and magic weapon at DM’s discretion? That's right!

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 15, 2018