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Crit Academy: A Dungeons and Dragons Podcast

Our podcast was created to deliver guidance to our heroes and provide them with new and reusable material for both players and DMs. We hope to inspire you with creative content that you can bring with you on your next adventure. Visit us at www.critacademy.com and subscribe to our emailing listing for a chance to win awesome prizes.
​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.

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Update frequency
every 5 days
Average duration
73 minutes
Episodes
340
Years Active
2016 - 2025
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Fight like a Monster

Fight like a Monster

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…

01:47:32  |   Wed 12 Feb 2020
Health, Armor and Endurance in Tabletop Games

Health, Armor and Endurance in Tabletop Games

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…

01:51:47  |   Wed 05 Feb 2020
Make your RPG Combat Flow

Make your RPG Combat Flow

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…

01:20:11  |   Wed 29 Jan 2020
Anatomy of a D&D Campaign

Anatomy of a D&D Campaign

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…

01:34:17  |   Wed 22 Jan 2020
World Anvil

World Anvil

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…

01:03:22  |   Wed 15 Jan 2020
DnD Player Storytelling

DnD Player Storytelling

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…

01:10:08  |   Wed 08 Jan 2020
DnD Adventure Design

DnD Adventure Design

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.

Jo…

01:47:50  |   Wed 01 Jan 2020
Class Analysis: DnD Artificer: Part 2

Class Analysis: DnD Artificer: Part 2

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 …

01:06:52  |   Wed 18 Dec 2019
Class Analysis: DnD Artificer: Part 1

Class Analysis: DnD Artificer: Part 1

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.

You can pick …

01:07:53  |   Wed 11 Dec 2019
DnD Essentials Kit

DnD Essentials Kit

Follow us on www.twitch.tv/critacademy and join us live on Sundays at 7pm est.

Follow us on social media: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @critacademy

This week we break down the D&D Essentials Kit!…

01:08:04  |   Wed 04 Dec 2019
Taverns, Inns, and Taprooms

Taverns, Inns, and Taprooms

Follow us on https://www.twitch.tv/critacademy and join us live on Sundays at 7pm est. Follow us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: @critacademy

This week we cover a one-stop gastronomic …

01:11:42  |   Wed 27 Nov 2019
Ghesh's Guide to Making Things

Ghesh's Guide to Making Things

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…

01:30:01  |   Wed 20 Nov 2019
Jarlaxle's Guide to Traps

Jarlaxle's Guide to Traps

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…

01:15:09  |   Wed 13 Nov 2019
Three-Tier Design for a busy GM

Three-Tier Design for a busy GM

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…

01:16:03  |   Wed 23 Oct 2019
Enchanted Tools

Enchanted Tools

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…

01:52:20  |   Wed 16 Oct 2019
Tulok the Barbrarian

Tulok the Barbrarian

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…

01:24:07  |   Wed 09 Oct 2019
Monster Manual Expanded

Monster Manual Expanded

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…

01:38:23  |   Wed 02 Oct 2019
Crit Academy's Mailbag

Crit Academy's Mailbag

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…

01:15:12  |   Wed 25 Sep 2019
Monster Loot

Monster Loot

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 …

01:34:27  |   Wed 18 Sep 2019
What's your Motivation?

What's your Motivation?

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…

01:52:09  |   Wed 11 Sep 2019
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