You can take literally any existing power set and pump it up to God level. Gods don’t necessarily have to balance with all of the characters in your story, or even your world if you don’t want them to, but they should at least balance with characters of similar power levels.
As far as common power sets for Gods go:
Omnipotence – Knowing everything, past, present and future. Honestly there’s nothing more powerful than being able to know it all because you can do anything with the power. It’s also very hard to balance. The only way I’ve found to make it work is that the gods themselves limit their own power, choosing not to use it in order to promote free will.
Telekinesis and Telpathy –Refer to: Power Primer 2. Both sets can easily be pumped up to God level at the high end.
Probability Control – Essentially, you can control fate, influencing the outcome of events however you wish. It’s sometimes referred to as luck control.
Time Manipulation –Bend time to do your bidding! You can do this on a large or individual scale. Change major events in a timeline, stop time, speed up time around just an opponent to turn him to dust (if he ages), speed up time around yourself to grant super speed, pre/postcognition, teleportation, create alternate realities or rewind time. This is a fun power set to get creative with.
Space Manipulation – Think of this power as the ability to warp what we know as reality in a fashion that would be against the laws of physics and the universe. You can control anything that exists and do anything with it. Some examples would be the ability to create pocket dimensions or portals, control people like puppets, change how gravity works, remove portions of people’s bodies, perfect awareness of your surroundings and environmental control. Say someone tried to blast you with fire. Well that fire is now a chicken, the ground your opponent is standing on is now upside down, you’re standing in mid-air, that chicken is now a dragon and you’ve manifested a bucket of popcorn to eat while your opponent gets mauled. Why? Because you can. Sometimes this is referred to as reality warping or the “Whatever, whatever, I do what I want!” set.
Matter Manipulation – Different than space manipulation because it allows for complete control over anything in the universe that has substance/mass/a physical form. You can’t really control truly invisible and theoretical forces with this set but you can manipulate atoms, molecules and the like.
Energy Manipulation – Control energy in whatever form it takes.
Elemental Mastery – Complete control over one or more of the elements.
Life Mastery – Create and control any form of life as well as the ability to completely erase it from existence.
Invulnerability – You are immune to all or certain types of damage/powers. Being immortal doesn’t mean that you’re also invulnerable, though traditionally a lot of characters with invulnerability are also immortal.
Remember, how you limit these sets is going to determine the power level for your character. You can do everything or only certain things within each of the power sets.
I hope that was useful. :)
-Morgan
