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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7321251" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Never point your DM gun at something unless you’re willing to pull the trigger. If character death is at stake, then you need to follow through when a PC gets that third death save failure. That might mean editing your story to account for the change in party makeup. If you don’t want to kill off any PCs, you need to be up-front about the fact that character  death is not a possible outcome of failure in this campaign. You could try leaving character death on the table and making resurrection magic easily available at all levels. But then you have to be prepared for the possibility of the players choosing to play a new character rather than resurrect one that dies. That’s part of being DM, you have to be prepared to adjust the story on the fly based on the players’ choices.Sounds like a case of mismatched player and DM expectations. Personally, if I had a player trying to grill me on my worldbuilding and try to correct me when I answered, I’d tell him, “ok, you DM then.”</blockquote>