Quote Originally Posted by ladyhighlander View Post
What do you do in the instance where it's obvious the DM wants you to die?
You leave the group.

You can do a bit of foreplay - talk to the GM, talk to the players. But if that doesn't resolve it somehow, and in my experience it doesn't, you leave the group. Hopefully you have other people to play with.

Clearly this isn't something that I've seen happen a lot - but there have been instances. I had a GM who got vindictive because a clever idea meant his villain died at a time he hadn't expected, rendering void the entire rest of the campaign. Same deal as yours: Assassins came out of nowhere to kill .. someone. I don't recall if it was my character, or a friends. But I know we never played with the guy again (as in, we all left his group).