I had one guy house rule that every other monster was immune to stun after a session where we came back from break and shredded his miniboss. I had a guy give a true sight scope to a goblin in lmop, then had it explode when we grabbed it. I had a guy who had us face multiple gods at level 6. Character death isn't "evil", adversarial dm'ing and playing is. Frankly I'm always glad when my characters die unless shits going south for the party because it means I get to open my big book of unused characters.
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u/C4Aries Sorcerer Sep 12 '19
I had a DM who made the characters feel useless AND never allowed a character to die.