It would have helped a bit if you posted the entire section that quote is from.
Animal and Terrain Domains
Presented in the section below are new rules for animal and terrain domains—domains for druids whose focus is more specific than the Animal, Plant, Weather, or elemental domains. A druid with the nature's bond ability can choose an animal domain or terrain domain. Just like cleric domains, animal and terrain domains have granted powers and domain spells, and a druid who selects an animal or terrain domain gains a domain spell slot at each level. A druid who worships a deity (as opposed to nature in general) cannot select an animal or terrain domain that contradicts or is outside of the portfolio of her deity.
If an animal or terrain domain ability calls for a saving throw, the DC of the save is equal to 10 + 1/2 the character's druid level + her Wisdom modifier.
Other nature-themed classes with access to domains may select an animal or terrain domain in place of a regular domain.
So, ultimately this will be up to your GM, but based on my reading I would determine it to be:
- Any druid with nature's bond
- Any class that has nature's bond class feature, or is virtually identical
- Classes/archetypes on a case by case basis which are allowed to pick a domain that seem to have a focus on nature
Unfortunately its just hard to get more specific.
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An excellent candidate for an FAQ....?
eg) Access to the following domains counts as being "nature themed":
Animal, Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Plant, Sun, Scalykind, Weather
What about a Divine Class that worships a nature deity, like Erastil or Gozreh?
What about a Divine Class that worships a nature deity, like Erastil or Gozreh?
I would say that is insufficient. A base (non-archetyped) Inquisitor can worship Erastil or Gozreh, but the class does not become a nature themed class just having done so.
I assume we can accept ranger and hunter as "nature themed" without spelling out reasons. I would say this sums up classes that are "nature themed" by default. Other than these two we have two possibilites to look at, can an archetype alter the base class to make it "nature themed" and does choice of deity make something nature themed?
The first case would seem to be, it can, archetypes can change plenty of other facts of the base class. This just leaves the problem of identifying which ones do this.
The second question is less clear to me, thematically it would make sense, but choice of deity doesn't alter any other basic class details, it just sets choices for some of them.
