| When I imagine I was the GM and there were 13 People, it would be too much for me, too. BUT: I'd never kill any char of my group deliberately. There are other, more elegant ways to resize the group than putting lethal traps on every second step they take...
I guess your GM had not much experience in playing, either. If he'd ever rosen up a character, put his love and heart-blood in it, worked out it's history and so on, he'd never have done what he did.
Sorry but if a GM would do this to one of MY babies, (Especially "Röde Orm", my beloved Midgard char, a good looking seafarer -that seems to be something like a Vicking- and really tough warrior but also with brains) I would take my character-sheet and leave. And I would erase all the exp's my char earned on that part of the adventure so that my char might have dreamt of it but he would be still alive.
Sorry, I hope you understand what I wanted to say. It was a little difficult to write something in english when I was so angry about somebody I don't even know!
Bye
Keltoi |