Friend canceling on me?

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I've been really interested in Dungeons and Dragons for a long time but have never had anyone to play it with. My friend plays it and he agreed to gather his other friends together and we can play through a campaign together. We've been planning this for weeks and I was getting unbelievably excited about it. Then today my friend texts me and says he's cancelling the whole thing because he "doesn't feel like it anymore." My friend will never admit it, but I have a strong feeling that he has depression because he'll spend days or weeks completely down in the dumps. I think that's why he cancelled game night and now I'm pissed that he would throw all our planning in the trash for something as trivial as "I don't feel like it." Like he was the only one who wanted this and nobody else mattered.

Is it wrong for me to be mad at him? Knowing he probably has depression makes me feel bad about it...

I think maybe try and speak to him and ask him what would make him feel like it? perhaps something has triggered him to be put off by the idea (maybe some hot person was going to go and they are not any more ) but seriously, it could be the stress or anxiety of knowing the event is coming up, i know i look forward to stuff and then when it happens i want to run away and hide.

Perhaps when you speak to them, offer to help, that way you are taking a lot of the pressure from them. I think you are right and that clearly something more is at work here.