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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 1612470" data-attributes="member: 5278">Realistically?!?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> With characters using magic, traveling other planes, battling fiends and wrestling dragons, I really can't see the big difference in realism between fighting a God and fighting an avatar...Fighting an avatar is obviously easier, but if you allow for the possibility that PCs can become powerful enough to defeat Hextors avatar then why shouldn't they one day become powerful enough to beat Hextor himself?Historically the idea of Gods being omnipotent springs from monotheistic religions, where by definition you don't have "Gods"; only "God". In a monotheistic campaign world I might be inclined to agree that the one supreme being (possibly the creator of the world) is more powerful than any mortal could ever be. In a typical fantasy pantheon world, it goes against all mythological and genre traditions, not to mention logic. By the very definition of the world omnipotent (or any other deific description starting with "omni"! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), there can only be ONE such being!IMC, there is no "cap" to how powerful a character can one day become, so there's no being so powerful that a PC couldn't one day beat it up with one hand on his back. Theoretically speaking, of course...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I can always come up with something even more powerful for next session!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Just my 2 cents...</blockquote>

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