Bartmanhomer
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Is there any possible way to kill a god?
Killed a god
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Sejs
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Depends on the DM; essentially it's a cosmology issue.
Personally when I DM, there is no way to kill a god just by reducing its hitpoints below a certain point or making it fail a saving throw. A god is inexpliciably tied to the thing that it is an anthropomorphic personification of. As long as there is some form of conflict somewhere in the world, or will be, there is a God of War, and as long as there is a God of War, there will continue to be conflict somewhere in the world.
In my games, 'killing' a god and creating a divine job opening is a singular cosmic event. It's more than just offing another monster. You need to be able to wrap your mind around the same kind of colossal paradoxes that a god eats for breakfast before you could even considder the possibility.
You want to kill a god, then you've got to figure out how to cram a wrench in the gears of existance first. It's more complicated than just hitting ACs and overcoming Damage Reduction.
Personally when I DM, there is no way to kill a god just by reducing its hitpoints below a certain point or making it fail a saving throw. A god is inexpliciably tied to the thing that it is an anthropomorphic personification of. As long as there is some form of conflict somewhere in the world, or will be, there is a God of War, and as long as there is a God of War, there will continue to be conflict somewhere in the world.
In my games, 'killing' a god and creating a divine job opening is a singular cosmic event. It's more than just offing another monster. You need to be able to wrap your mind around the same kind of colossal paradoxes that a god eats for breakfast before you could even considder the possibility.
You want to kill a god, then you've got to figure out how to cram a wrench in the gears of existance first. It's more complicated than just hitting ACs and overcoming Damage Reduction.
BroccoliRage
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ask your DM as to the rules.
gods are killable in my campaign, but its not easy and you may find that you dont like the results...
i myself have a rather distant pantheon, after freeing the world from the grip of the great old ones they moved on to other things, because a being so powerful can get bored easily. i have four subsects of pantheons, and one is a group of demigods which i drew from peirs anthony's incarnations of immortality series, where beings contest divine position like a political office, through combat (of course). maybe your DM is interested in a system like this, as it definitely makes gods killable to a degree.
gods are killable in my campaign, but its not easy and you may find that you dont like the results...
i myself have a rather distant pantheon, after freeing the world from the grip of the great old ones they moved on to other things, because a being so powerful can get bored easily. i have four subsects of pantheons, and one is a group of demigods which i drew from peirs anthony's incarnations of immortality series, where beings contest divine position like a political office, through combat (of course). maybe your DM is interested in a system like this, as it definitely makes gods killable to a degree.
Dog Moon
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Malhavoc Press has a book called "Requiem for a God" or something like that. It deals with the death of a God, which can be either killed in battle or something, and other things. It's been a long time since I've looked at it, so I can't be any more descriptive than that. Sorry.
