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Can the ACG Feat Believer's Boon be used to take Inquisitions?
Your deity rewards you for your faithfulness.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, alignment must be within one
step of your deity’s.
Benefit: Choose one domain granted by your deity. Once per day, you can use all 1st-level domain abilities granted to clerics of that domain. You gain access to this one ability only, not the higher-level domain ability, domain spells, or additional class skills that the domain might grant, or any bonus feats that are listed under its granted powers. Your effective cleric level in regard to this ability is 1st level.
Special: You can take this feat twice. When you take it a second time, you choose another domain granted by your deity.
If you grossly violate the code of conduct required by your deity, your alignment shifts so that it is more than one step away from your deity’s, or you no longer worship your deity, you lose access to this feat. You can regain it once you atone for your misdeeds to your deity (see the atonement spell on page 245 of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook).
If an inquisition’s granted power calls for a saving throw, the DC of the save is equal to 10 + 1/2 the character’s inquisitor level + her Wisdom modifier. Unless otherwise stated, the caster level for granted power spell-like abilities is equal to the inquisitor’s class level.
Inquisitions are intended for inquisitors, not for other classes that give access to domains. While a cleric or other domain-using class can select an inquisition in place of a domain (if appropriate to the character’s deity), inquisitions do not grant domain spell slots or domain spells, and therefore are much weaker choices for those classes. These other classes use the appropriate class level as their inquisitor level for the purpose of inquisition granted powers (clerics use their cleric level as their inquisitor level, and so on).
I could see it going either way, but I'm inclined to say that you cannot, due to the emphasized in "While a cleric or other domain-using class can select an inquisition in place of a domain".
My guess would be that PFS will not allow it. So I wouldn't try it there.
But I think most home games would allow it. So ask your GM.
Yeah, because of this text: "Inquisitions are intended for inquisitors, not for other classes that give access to domains." I wouldn't try it in PFS. It wouldn't be overpowered at all, though, and I'd allow one of my players to do it in a home game.
That is definitely understood, but thus far every other means of obtaining a domain via class feature allowed you to take an inquisition, including druid domains (should your deity allow it). I agree with you, I just feel like my sticking point was due to a different portion of the text.