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Our podcast is broken into three segments!
Crit Nation feedback! Where we dedicate and entire segment to the concerns, questions or anything you have to share with us.
Main Topic! Our primary topic of discussion ranging from combat effectiveness, roleplaying and similar tips to help you learn or improve your gameplay experience!
Our Unearthed Tips & Tricks Segment! Our favorite segment where we share with you ideas that you can use on your next adventure. This includes character concepts, magic items, encounter ideas, DM tips and player tips.
Crit Academy is joined by Alan McCoy to discuss his ongoing "Fight like a Monster" series. A regular series focused on helping Dungeon Masters get the most out of their Dungeons and Dragons monsters…
This week we are joined by our good friends Gabe and Jeff from the Inter-Party Conflict Podcast! We discuss hit points in RPG games like Dungeons and Dragons. Hit points or HP, represent a combinatio…
Want to run D&D combat better? Your D&D combat isn't dragging because it's slow, it's dragging because it lacks FLOW! We are joined today by Zipperon Disney a Youtuber and big D&D nerd with a channel…
We are joined by Christian Hoffer, writer for Comicbook.com. We discuss his blog series "Anatomy of a D&D Campaign" a week-by-week look at the planning of Dungeons & Dragons sessions. While D&D 101 l…
Crit Academy Episode 152: World Anvil
This week we discuss World Anvil, the ultimate worldbuilding toolset and RPG campaign manager. This amazing tool set helps you build and showcase your living wor…
Episode 151: Player Storytelling
"Storytelling is the DM's job!"
Although this is a commonly held belief, it could not be more wrong. Everyone at the Dungeons and Dragons table has a hand in storytel…
We interview Jeff Stevens and Cat Evans, best selling Dungeons and Dragons authors on the DMsguild. They share their unique approaches and challenges that they run into and how they overcome them.
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This week Crit Academy finishes their Class Analysis of the new Dungeons and Dragons Artificer class. We breakdown each of the core sub-classes and their features and discuss how to get the most out …
This week we breakdown the new Artificer class and its features. We give our thoughts on the features and how we see ourselves using them from both a flavor and mechanics point of view.
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This week we break down the D&D Essentials Kit!…
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This week we cover a one-stop gastronomic …
This week we are live from Acadecon a convention put on by the awesome team over at Acadecon.
We cover the best selling DMsguild product "Ghesh's Guide to Making Things" by the wonderful Anne Gregers…
This week we cover Jarlaxle's Guide to Traps a DMsguild.com best seller. Fresh from the archives of Bregan d'Aerthe, Jarlaxle's Guide to Traps is a collection of vicious traps, maddening hazards, ter…
This week we discuss Three Tier Design for a busy GM by Raging Swan Press.
Three-Tier Design enables a GM to prioritize what is important for an upcoming session or adventure and to use his preparati…
This week we interview "The Kind GM" on his recent DMsguild product "Enchanted Tools"
Enchanted Tools is a supplement whose purpose is to remedy the irrelevance of tools in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edi…
This week we interview Tulok the Barbrarian, a popular youtuber who brings you a step by step guide for building your favorite fantasy characters from movies, books and TV to your Dungeons and Dragon…
Monster Manual Expanded, a 321-page source of content that supplements the Monster Manual. It aims to provide Dungeon Masters more options and flexibility in designing adventures and dressing up the…
This week special guest Alicia Handlin (Godqueen) joins as we go over old emails, comments and submissions that we could never quite find a good spot for on the show. Gonna be honest, some pretty hil…
When brave adventurers face the dangers of the world, they want something to show for it. This supplement provides individual loot for each monster in the Monster Manual, as well as a basic crafting …
This week's show is a discussion on player motivations. We review a segment out of and old school Dungeons and Dragons book that can be a powerful tool to help you determine what it is you want out o…