What happened to specialty priests in third edition?
Specialty priests as such don’t exist at low levels in 3rd ed. Instead, the “common” cleric gets a certain amount of inherent customization (through the domains), and there’s always multiclassing for other abilities (a cleric of Tempus would probably be expected to have some Fighter levels, and one of Azuth should know some Wizardry). Some abilities could be taken as feats as well. True specialty priests can exist at higher levels through the use of prestige classes. 3.