[quote=@ravenDivinity]As a god, will it be possible to die, or are the characters immortal after the event?[/quote]

Your character is immortal until the following conditions are met:

1- They choose to die
2- They have something on hand that is capable of destroying their current body
3- Their chosen method of self-destruction is sudden or painless enough to overcome any instinctive responses that may cause them to involuntarily protect themselves, or they are determined enough to feel no such instinct.

However, they can go dormant. They can simply sit between planes and sleep their time away with no ill effect, or their body can be involuntarily destroyed. This is not easy, especially as they will rapidly create for themselves a new one, but puts them under considerable strain to recover. If the god you're trying to destroy is not outnumbered by other gods at least three to one, good luck trying.

Gods can feel pain.

[quote=@ravenDivinity]I'm thinking about a young character who knows the consequences of that sort of power-hungry, corrupting iniquity and dedicates himself to preserving whatever traits within him are good, to edify himself and do with his powers the great things he always wished to do.[/quote]

[quote=@Chromane]Just a thought - you mentioned smiting as one of the powers, with larger explosions taking longer. But what about magicking up an explosive and setting it off? If you could make a skyscraper in a couple of hours what about a barrel of TNT or a small nuke?[/quote]

I noticed this while I was writing things up, and there's really no logical reason why it shouldn't work. The problem is strictly from a gameplay perspective. Being able to destroy things more easily than they're made, as is the natural trend, sort of collapses the sport of creating and counter-creating armies and robots and monsters and what have you in order to thwart another god's plans. The same problem affects disease- If there wasn't some kind of rule in place, someone could pretty easily create a deadly and fast-acting virus, then create a hardy mobile carrier for it, then watch the city's population collapse. Yeah, other gods could collaborate to eradicate or immunise people from the epidemic, but that would centre attention pretty closely to that singular issue. Obviously gods need to have [i]some[/i] capacity to destroy things at will, but the moral of the story is that having realistic rules about destruction just tips things too heavily in favour of destroying things instead of making new things and then defending them from other new things.