Cannon Fodder 65 (GCP Episode 119)

Cannon Fodder

The Glass Cannon Network

Leisure, Hobbies

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Troy and Joe break down the opening moments of the battle with the Black-Headed Beast and discuss ending your session in the middle of combat, adding an aggressive third party to your encounters, and how to handle a dispute over who should get a magical item in your group. In Listener Mail, they get an exciting update from the all-vigilante game and discuss how GMs should endeavor to act when playing in another GMs game. Become a supporter of the podcast at our Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/glasscannon You can help us unlock goals for the future while unlocking fun GCP exclusive rewards for yourself!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Cannon Potter, a behind the scenes look at the Glass Cannon Podcast.
0:25.5	Welcome back, GCP Nation.
0:26.8	What's going on, everybody?
0:28.9	It's Canon Futter, and my name's Joe O'Brien.
0:32.0	And I'm Troy, mid-combat, cliffhanger, LaValley.
0:34.1	This is your new thing, huh?
0:35.0	This is your thing.
0:37.0	Breath weapon cliffhangers.
0:38.4	I don't think it's that new.
0:41.4	See the Rip Drake fight.
0:43.3	That was a while ago.
0:45.8	I only like to end mid-combat when it's a breath weapon.
0:50.2	It is a, there is precedent, yes.
0:58.2	There is a breath weapon cliffhanger precedent, which you could always cite, of course, as a justification for your horrible, horrible actions. I wonder how many people this really happens to in their games.
1:03.5	Like, they've come to the end of a four or five hour session.
1:06.4	It's getting to the end of the night, and they have to do a mid-combat cliffhanger.
1:10.3	I wonder how often that happens in games.
1:12.0	I mean, it happens to us a lot in our non-recorded games.
1:14.7	How many of our Jade Reeds at sessions have we got to the final boss of a book and have
1:20.4	had to do it over two sessions?
1:22.0	Because just for some reason, either the combat goes too long or it takes us too long to get into it that it's like well it's
1:27.7	one a am we really have to stop well well there's a couple major reasons for that one is especially
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