Ok so. I'm working on my own homebrew setting, and some things to go with it like homebrew monsters and perhaps even homebrew races. But right now, I'm working on domains. While I will make new domains, right now I'm focusing myself on changing existing domains instead. Why?
Two things bother me with domains. The first one is obviously the power imbalance. I haven't started working on it yet, but I will make the Healing Domain useful if it's the last thing I do, ghat dangit!!
Second one is impact. Or you could say, power. But I say impact because the point is, I feel like domains don't have the amount of "oomph!" they should have. They should make more of a difference than they do. As it is, domains are a minor class feature that clerics and a few other classes have access to, but I feel like it shouldn't be just a minor feature. Should be something major and important, to make the choice of domain matter more and to make clerics with different domains more different from one another. Therefore, more power.
So, HERE
Right now, I have only made my setting's equivalent to the animal domain, and would like opinions and criticism on it.
so, 1) no spell changes your type
2) I don't actually know what you are trying to do.
1) I'd assume beast shape would change you into an animal. Or are you still treated as your normal type? If that's the case I can reword it.
2) That's fair. Perhaps I should've explained my intentions from the beggining. Mostly, the "Self Summoning" thing has to do with the feat Versatile Summon Nature's Ally, from Monster Summoner's Handbook, which would allow you to give yourself some neat templates such as fiery, aqueous or primordial. Although clerics don't have Summon Nature's Ally spells in their spell list, there is a feat that grants them the druid's spontaneous summon nature's ally, which is why i didn't put any of those spells as domain spells. Really you could say this is the "Animal Druid" domain. It gives you access to wild shape in the form of Beast Shape spells and gives you an animal companion. Although even druids can benefit from it since thye could then do stuff like apply the bonuses from Augment Summoning to their wild shape.
EDIT: Reworded it to work with any transmutation spells with Animal or Beast in their names instead of spells that change type.