A long long time ago I played in a game with my friends where the DM had made a custom world where all the Gods were the players and their personalities. In fact, I was playing Heinz Watties, a Cleric of Tiwaking - God of Light, Healing, Lightning. We all started as level 1 and, after many many adventures we were trying to stop a portal from a negative energy plane from opening. Our Paladin of Stuart was the only one with the physical key to prevent the plane from opening, but near the end of the adventure he and all his belongs were petrified and turned to stone.

So we lost. It was really sad. We had another campaign with new characters later in the same world about 6 years after our failure. Tiwaking the God had become depressed and withdrew from the world. Stuart had become a barbarian God due to the failure to save the world, and one of the other characters had switched side to the evil invaders and were helping them conquer the world.

It was a good game. I miss those days.