Where do Gods live?

[Matafuego]

Since my campaign is reaching the Epic levels and there has been (and will be) plenty of player-god interactions I've decided to re-write my whole take on the Gods and the world. (Considering before I never took my time to make them anymore than Gods, with name, portfolio, churches and worshippers).

And the main question that popped in my head...
Where do Gods live?
Do they live in a Mountain?
Do they have each a plane?
Are they errant?

What about your campaign?

feel free to share ideas =)

 

[fanboy2000]

In the standard D&D (Great Wheel) cosmology, most gods live on the plane that corisponds to their various alignments. They make their home in some imposible to reach fortress on thouse planes and surround themselves with their followers, makeing entrance even more difficult.

In my homebrew campaign, I had two gods that lived on the Prime Material and wondered around setting up churches. They didn't tell anyone who they were though, but one of my players figured it out anyways.

The old Deities and Demigods had stats for the gods of verious mythologies, and where they lived on the Great Wheel (though it wasn't the great whell yet). One interesting idea is the PCs could go to a plane and find gods they haven't heard of before, gods that are worshiped by other people living on alternet prime materials.

 

[Mallus]

Let's see... current homebrew...

The God of the Hannikum Church lives in Heaven.


Mr. Spidergod lives at the center of the Great Web of Wealth, somewhere in the Land of Dreams.

Mr. Pau Pau roams the streets of the city Eris, hunting mice and shying away from loud dogs... since he's a 'vaguely numinous alley cat'.

Tophaceous Pairolairo spends his nights sleeping on the beaches of the world, and his days winning --and then losing-- tremendous fortunes in seaside casinos.

Nadanya lives atop Mt. Parvishta, dispensing wisdom and ettiquette tips to all who make the climb.

The Maestro De Grappe walks the earth in search of anyone who can best him in a duel.

Kruetzel of the Oven is said to live inside a mountain in the far West... supposdly 'baking' the Promised Land.

Dhalberg Distante is said to live everyewhere, all at once, since he is 'the unending bored madness at the heart of things'. He also claims to originally be from Pasadena, CA.

Is that enough? On second thought, don't answer...

 

[Mallus]

darn double post...

 

[Crothian]

My greater god sdon't have alingments but they do live in the great wheel. There are only 13 of them and each has a plane, but each plane does not have a god. THe demi gods live all over the place, most in the prime material though.

 

[The Grackle]

In D&D, it's assumed that the gods live in these distant planes and kinda' beam powers down to their worshippers and priests. Personally, I like it when Gods are little more terrestrial. They could live on some mountain, under the ocean, a flying citadel, or that sort of thing. Somewhere inaccessible but still on Earth.

 

[D'karr]

Much like the Gargantuan Epic Gorilla; wherever they want.

 

[Wombat]

Depends on my game.

In my current campaign, one group would say their god (singular) lives at the center of all reality.

Another group claims to have killed off their gods. The mountain where these gods used to live is no Off Limits.

Another group has a nearly infinite number of mutually contradictory religions and philosophies that they enjoy debating over for long periods of time. With this group, some claim the gods live amongst us, some claim the gods are us, some believe in patheism, some in panentheism, some that the gods live in lands above the clouds and/or below the waves/ground.

 

[Umbran]

The standard Great Wheel cosmology has them living on particular planes...

If your gods are just big, powerful humanoids, then perhaps they need a place to live and put their bodies. But to my way of thinking, we're talking about a god: The thing exists, but it does not "live" in the same sense that a human or dwarf lives. If it has a body, it is as a matter of convenience for interacting with lesser beings, a manifestation rather than the god itself. A real god is a non-local phenomenon, and therefore doesn't need a place to hang out after dinner.

 

[AIM-54]

In my homebrew, they live on the spirit plane and continue to wage wars over power with little regard for the material plane...save the five elder gods who are kinda annoyed that they've sort of been forgotten or replaced by a "new" pantheon over most of the world...of course there are still those that simply worship spirit totems.

The spirit-realm sort of overlays the material, making it pretty easy (for those with the power) to go from one to the other, but otherwise it exists without directly affecting the material world.