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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 1612597" data-attributes="member: 926">Before you can answer this question you must answer another:  Do you consider gods to be beings or plot devices?To put it into comic book terms, do you like to think of gods as Galactus and Darksied or as the Endless (Dream, Death, Destruction, etc)? Most of the people here posting that they don't like the idea of gods being killed seem to me to view gods as plot devices, and not beings.  There is nothing wrong with this!  I, however, don't like to view them that way.  I take the Great Old One view of gods as otherplanar alien beings who can be killed, by each other, or by anything else with enough power.  I am fully in favor of giving stats to gods, as a major concept of my campagin world is a war of many thousands of gods, each killing each other, that all at one time were the last representative of their mortal race and ascended to godhood.  At different times these gods were killed by other mortals who then assumed godhood themselves.  I give gods no special immunity from death.  They are not embodied concepts or universal laws given a face.  Now, just to contradict myself, I DO use Azathoth, Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth as embodied universal law/Endless, so I don't find the idea disgusting or anything.  I just like to have both.  In D&Dg terms, I place these as uberdieties, all divine rank 21+, and don't bother statting them.  They can't be touched, as long as the concept exists, the embodiement will exist.</blockquote>

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