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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1125838" data-attributes="member: 463">Sorry, I didn't mean to say that gods should be unkillable, just that permanently destroying one - erasing it from future history - should probably take something major, probably more than just defeating its physical form.  Eg Diomedes defeated Ares at Troy and banished him back to Olympus, but he didn't 'kill War'.In the Silmarilion, Melkor is permanently defeated and banished from Middle Earth forever, but not actually 'killed'.  For mortal-level heroes I think it should certainly take a major quest to destroy a god (and possibly assume their portfolio?).In my 1e/2e deity campaign, gods could be and were slain, but were only permanently destroyable on their home plane - where they were vastly more powerful.  The smart way to destroy enemy gods was to lure them out of their home plane to fight on neutral ground, dispel them, then follow the defeated god's silver cord back to its home plane and kill it while it was still weak.  This was a hard trick to pull off, but could be done.</blockquote>