A level one cleric.

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The rules give suggestions for the domains associated with them. You can choose to use those suggestions or not. This decision has always been up to the DM.

EXCEPT. Now in 2024, it is up to the cleric player per RAW. 

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In practice, the process of a player working with their DM to create a cleric character has not changed one iota between 2014 and 2024. A DM decides what their game world looks like, including geography, politics, species distributions, mythology, etc. If that includes restricting certain domains to certain gods, then that will be shared with the players, in whatever form the DM approaches campaign background and character creation with their players. It's been like that in 2014, and it's like that in 2024. That has nothing to do with home brewing, just like picking a specific species composition for the game world has nothing to do with home brewing. It's simply world building.

To say it in your own words: "Limiting content is not what homebrew is. [...] Homebrew is when you edit how the rules work or just make stuff up whole cloth."

 

It isn't a ridiculous conclusion. It is the change they made.

In to 2014: "Choose one domain related to your deity"

in 2024: "You gain a Cleric subclass of your choice"

Those are exact quotes from the book... In 2014, you picked a domain that was listed as associated to your deity. In 2024 you can pick any domain you want. Read them again, that's what those say. They very clearly changed how it works. If the 2024 cleric can't pick the domain of his choice, then the DM has changed the rules and they're going homebrew.

you could homebrew something(so long as your DM is okay with it) I like the idea of your patron being your future self or something lol.