Sessions Canceled

We are finally doing it. We are doing the retrospective and talking about Mat’s often referenced three year campaign. It’s a fun ride. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/

At what speed do you move things along? When do you drop the boss fight on the players? Do you have any pacing rules you use to control the flow of things? Isaiah wants to know how we deal with pacing our games. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindube...

Josh often rants and raves about people playing games other than D&D. There are lots of reasons and benefits from picking and at the very least skimming through different systems and Josh has been doing just that recently. So we are to discuss how we go about grabbing new systems and looking through them. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ Twitter: https:...

Should your game reward combat or role playing? Just one or the other? Probably both. Either way we talk about rewards and where you get them from in your games in this episode. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/

Mat wanted to revisit the topic of villains with Josh and Sam present this time. So we come back to the topic of villains and general baddies with two new perspectives on the subject. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/

We return to the world of bad takes with this episode. This time though Isaiah has scoured the internet in search of the takes to be judged before us. The tribunal of Sessions Canceled, most feared in all the realms. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHn...

Main quest vs. side quest, how do you choose? Which part of the game is more important? How to decide how much attention to give each potential storyline? These are questions Josh brings up for this episode. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

Wargaming versus Tabletop Gaming. Differences, similarities, ideas they take from each other, a little history of the hobby. We hit all that good stuff in this episode. As well as some Warhammer lore for good measure. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEH...

Another round of the Class Handbook. Now we are talking the punch machine themself the mighty Monk. They hit things, hit things good. But not good enough sometimes. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

With Josh and Sam succumbing to The Warp again, Isaiah and Mat discuss one of the most fun aspects of gaming and running games. The bad guys! Join the crew as they speak their minds on villains and how they're used in your TTRPGs. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U...

How doth one build an encounter? Truly the greatest question of our age and Mat wants answers! So of course he puts the question on our table. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

We’re talking pets. Doggos, cats big and small, drakes, and more. Sam brings us the topic of pets/companions and mechanics in relation to them at your table. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

How do you get players to do what you as GM want? How do you make the emotional and maybe even physical trauma your players go through feel worth it? How do you decide what shiny magic item to give your party? All these ideas and more with today's episode discussing risk and award. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast...

Josh has often mentioned his frustrations with running 5E and how he feels the game often leaves the GM hanging and Isaiah has expressed confusion about this. So here is the episode where Josh basically talks for two hours and tries to get his point across to everyone else about GM story based mechanics.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://w...

Another Class Handbook episode comes round the bend. For this one it’s all about the dragon fucker extraodinaire, the Bard. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

We return to the topic of character creation with this episode. This time though we focus a bit more on the mechanical design of character creation and how different games do it successfully or poorly. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

WE RETURN! And we are chatting about our vacation cause we felt like it. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

The playtest discussion continues. This time we get into them juicy juicy Feats. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

We got another play test document from the mighty wizards that reside in the state of Washington. So naturally we gotta rip into that bad boy. This one is kinda thicc though so it’s gonna be a two parter. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

Another entry in our Class Handbook series. This time we talk about the beefiest boy of them all, the class you play if you want to be thicc as hell, the barbarian. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

Table top is of course always a group activity so naturally when you are working together as a group there should be some collaboration on things. Back story, mechanics, character choices, style of game, all those are part of the collaboration process and that’s what we are discussing for this episode. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.insta...

Ever wanted to make your campaign more Witcher?! You a big fan of Monster Hunter?! You wanna sniff that Displace Beast shit pile so you can track down your query and then fight them tooth and nail until only one SURVIVES?! We do too but that shits kinda hard to do in table top. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ Yo...

What makes a character work? How to make them fit your group? What kind of planning do you need to do to really get something out of your character? We try to answer all those questions and discuss what a “successful” character even is. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/cha...

It’s round five of the Class Handbook. We are talking about the last member of the core four classes in D&D, the Cleric, The healing, undead smashing, party praying, divine beast of the party. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1ILEpdmgiEHnc6Agaz4KQ

The first of many UA documents on the upcoming One D&D is here. We are taking a look at all the goodies and changes made with this first playtest document as well as speculating a bit about what the other playtest materials will bring us. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SessionsCanceld Background music by Kevin Dubois: https://www.instagram.com/kevindubeast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.c...