I have a character in the Skull and Shackles AP. He's a 1st level cleric of Gozreh (god of the storm and sky/goddess of the wave and surf). For second level I wanted to multiclass as a aquatic druid with the Aquatic terrain domain. Hero lab says that the Aquatic Domain is an invalid selection. In Ultimate Magic it stipulates that a druid who worships a deity can take terrain or animal domains so long as it doesn't conflict with that deity's "portfolio" but I'd figure the aquatic domain would be well within the portfolio of the goddess of waves and surf.
Is there a rule I am missing or is hero lab shafting me for no reason?
Good to know... now to convince my GM, lol.
Pretty much. I'm guessing he thinks the software does a better job of ruling on those things than he does. When I told him that I was planning on doing that for second level he didn't seem to have a problem with it, even thought it was a cool idea, but once Hero Lab rejected the character build he started thinking of reasons why it shouldn't work. Got me thinking that maybe I was missing something. I wanted to run it by you guys to make sure I wasn't cheating or breaking any rules before I made a stink about it.
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It might be an issue because Clerics also can take Druid Domains (and Inquisitor Inquisitions), it is invalid because you didnt take that Domain with your Cleric first, where it would stack. with a lot of classes, it does specify when you get a new Domain, if you have Cleric levels you must choose one of those Domains.
Nah, according to hero lab NONE of the druid domains are valid choices for a cleric of ANY deity (not even the shark domain goes through for Besmara) even if it's within the "portfolio" of that deity. Thing is I'm going to playing a multi-classed druid/cleric so it's unavailability to me shouldn't be denied on the grounds that I'm not a druid since I'm a druid.
Another classic example of this being a software issue was that I rewrote the character (in hero lab) but this time I started him as an aquatic druid at first level and then added a level of cleric. Still got flagged. Essentially what hero lab is saying is: "You know that completely legal starting character you made? Yeeeeeah, no."... which is garbage.
I think the problem is that there wasn't a list of deities a druid *could* follow that would allow for that domain selection and left it, more or less, to the GM's discretion. That sort of ambiguity doesn't translate well into software.
Does he know Herolab let's some archetypes stack, that should not stack?
Probably. Does that mean he'll think hero lab is wrong? Probably not.