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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1613356" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>This is exactly the approach I use IMC - gods are either ascended mortals or concrete manifestations of abstract concepts.  In either case they can be challenged and physically defeated by mortals (eg in myth, Diomedes defeating Ares at Troy, or in literature, Moorcock's Eternal Champion battling various Lords of Chaos & other gods).  Permanent god-killing normally requires going to that god's home plane as per 1st ed Legends & Lore and is usually beyond the power of mortals to accomplish - though the Russian cyber-mercenary Oleg Gadinsky once nearly killed the PC god Thrin with a hand grenade by throwing it onto Thrin's 'dispelled' body as it returned to Asgard - but can be achieved by powerful enemy gods; eg Thrin has killed both the Babylonian devil-god Druaga (a long-time foe since Thrin was 3rd level!) and Wotan the Hanged God (an evil aspect of his own pantheon-head Odin - since 1e L&L unaccountably rates Odin as 'Neutral Good', I assumed that hanging 9 nights from Yggdrasil had cast off Odin's less-pleasant Aspect, which took the German name Wotan as it appeared to Hitler on an alternative fantasy version of 20th century Earth and help the 3rd Reich in its attempted global conquest).</p></blockquote><p></p>