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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1102202" data-attributes="member: 463">I base my campaign approach to the gods primarily on Moorcock's Eternal Champion series, where the gods are super-powerful but definitely killable when they take physical form.  Many Earth mythologies have similar approaches, unless you're using a Judaeo-Christian type mythology it's perfectly reasonable.  Looking at Tolkien say, the elf Fingolfin severely wounded Melkor, the most powerful non-Overgod in the pantheon!  A minor deity like Sauron cowered before the mortal Beren.  In a Middle-Earth setting only the overgod Iluvatar should really be unkillable, and Iluvatar is highly abstract - you're not going to meet him physically even on the Blessed Isle.In another sort of campaign though, deities may be more abstract concepts than 'real'.  In REH's own Conan novels there's no evidence that the gods really exist beyond the minds of their worshippers.  Conan can't kill Set, because Set (or Mitra) don't really exist, at least in the sense that you and I exist.  He can kill any number of demons and monsters that claim to be gods, though.IMC you can kill the pysical forms of Ilmater, Isis, Aphrodite and any number of fertility-goddesses, but you can't kill the fertility _principle_ with a sword.  The beliefs of the people will manifest new incarnations (deities).  Same goes for gods of death, war et al  - you can kill Ares but you can't kill War (except by ending all war).</blockquote>

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