Quickleaf
Legend
The party was railroaded into him and his 'apprentice', and they both... <snip>
Were it anyone else, I'd leave nothing but the smell of burnt rubber in that house, but I don't get to play if I'm not DM'ing.
Yeah, that's my point (and my question). What you describe in the OP is a killer encounter, but it was unclear what kicked off that encounter. Now you're asserting it was the DM railroading the players. That may very well be true.
I'm saying, since you are a DM with an ongoing game, put yourself in this DM's shoes. Could the "railroading" be this DM responding to something the party did that alerted these high level threats? Could there be some kind of logic to the encounter besides a DM throwing pet NPCs at the party because the power-gamers ticked them off last time (or whatever)?
I'm saying, take a breath and given the specifics only you know, and your own experience as a DM, what might this DM of yours have been thinking?
You may come around to the same conclusion that this DM sucks and the game isn't for you, but by reflecting on it and putting yourself in his shoes you'll come up with a way to approach the topic from the side without triggering anyone's defenses.
Make sense?