D&D General Why did you have to cancel/reschedule your most recent session?

Why did you have to cancel/reschedule your most recent session?

  • The DM was sick.

    Votes: 14 31.8%
  • 1 or more of the players was sick

    Votes: 15 34.1%
  • Childcare fell through

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Todd just plum forgot it was gameday (again)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Someone's spouse or partner double-booked them

    Votes: 3 6.8%
  • Someone double-booked themselves (probably Todd)

    Votes: 8 18.2%
  • Travel issues (car trouble, bad weather)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • You just didn't feel like it.

    Votes: 2 4.5%
  • Someone was called into work last minute

    Votes: 7 15.9%
  • Game play location fell through

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Technical issues with a VTT or other remote means of play

    Votes: 1 2.3%
  • DM Burnout

    Votes: 5 11.4%
  • Two romantically involved players are fighting (again)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Family or other personal emergency :(

    Votes: 4 9.1%
  • 1 or more players just up and quit!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (please explain)

    Votes: 10 22.7%

el-remmen

Moderator Emeritus
So we had to reschedule our most recent in-person game (was supposed to be this past Sunday the 9th) because I (the DM) had the flu and another player got COVID and it got me thinking about the various reasons why a session might be cancelled/rescheduled. In my case, re-scheduled because we determine our next game session date at the end of each session (none of us having a set enough schedule to have a set repeating weekly, biweekly, etc. . .game day). I assume that other groups who do have a set game day are more likely to just skip until the next one comes around than to try to find a different day or time to make it up (but maybe not).

Hopefully, we will be gathering again on the evening of Friday the 28th.

So in the spirit of threads about how your last session went, or what your most recent TTRPG purchases might be, I started this thread where you can post the reason why the most recent session didn't pan out. You can vote in the poll as much a you want, as we keep a rolling record of why the game didn't happen this week.

In my 42 years of playing, I have had a wide swath of reasons come up, including deaths in the family, trips to the ER, sudden job or travel opportunities, calendar mix ups, and when I was still a tween and teenager, because someone got grounded and couldn't come over.

So why did you have to cancel/reschedule your most recent session? Haven't had to do so recently? Don't worry, chances are one will come up soon enough, just bookmark this thread for when you do. ;)

Oh and for the purposes of this poll choices (Todd is that guy, you know the one).
 

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We actually haven't had to reschedule or outright cancel a session for a while, but I've included all the reasons for ones cancelled in the last year or so, which have all been:

1) Multiple people were sick.

or

2) Double-bookings. Particularly one player gets repeatedly surprise-told by his spouse that he's "double-booked" (or rather, she has decided there is something he should be doing) even though we actually booked this in many months before!
 






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