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.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 340
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
100 Interesting Boss Mechanics
As DM’s we always do our best to attempt to have the most interesting of villains. Cool motivations, relatable morals, and so much more. But when it comes to the characters engaging the big bad enemy…
Monster Design
This week each of us brought a custom monster to the table. Built using the instructions in the Dungeon Masters Guide. We walk through our build process, design decisions and flavor of our new babies…
Storm King's Barrows!
We interview Andrew Dempz, one of the creators of the @dungeon masters guild supplement Dungeoneer’s Pack: Storm King’s Barrow! A DnD supplement that contains ten unexplored dungeons in the north of …
The Dog Fighter's Handbook
This week we discuss best selling DMsguild product "The Dog Fighter's Handbook".
Air combat can be a large and important part of the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Pirates, traders, military powers a…
Captains and Cannons
We cover the Captains and Cannons a DMsguild product that provides a rule set that explains how to run a ship battle in your campaign. Whether you want to fight on lashed-together longships, blast en…
Call from the Deep
Call from the Deep
DMsguild creator JVC Parry joins to talk his mindflayer inspired dungeons and dragons campaign book designed to take your heroes from levels 1-12.
After crash-landing onto the Mate…
Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to Combat
We interview Darrin Scott on his amazing best selling Dungeons and Dragons supplement "Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to Combat". A powerful resource to help you run the most fun combats you ever have, no m…
The Art of War for D&D Players
We interview DMsguild.com Adebt M.T Black on his amazing best selling Dungeons and Dragons supplement "The Art of War for D&D Players". Over two thousand years ago, a philosopher-general named Sun Tz…
Encounters on the Savage Seas
This week we interview best selling DMsguild.com creator Jeff Stevens about his "Encounters on the Savage Seas". An amazing supplement for those who wish to embark on an adventure on the high seas!
E…
One Shot-Onslaught
This week we interview the amazing adventuring party from the DnD actual play podcast One-Shot Onslaught. They share with us some of their most memorable Dungeons and Dragons moments, give us a peek …
Sir Alkian's Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse
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This we special guest Anne Gregersen joins us to talk about her best selling Dmsguild DnD supplement.
Sir Alkian'…
50 Shades of Rage
The word barbarians brings to mind certain images. Snowbound brutes with fur cloaks and broad swords, their long hair whipping in the wind as they howl savage battle cries, undeterred by the exhausti…
The Malady Workshop
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This episode was brought to you by Kobold Press! www.critacademy.com/koboldpress
Back by popular demand, Jason Bak…
Artifacts of the Guild
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This week Alan Tucker and Terry Herc join us to talk about the massive dungeons and dragons community project and Plati…
Wombo's Guide to Combos!
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This week we cover the DMsguild supplement Wombo's Guide to Combos! DnD supplement for pulling off combo attacks with yo…
Nerzugal's Dungeon Master Toolkit
This week we cover the amazing DMsguild supplement Nerzugal's Dungeon Master Tool Kit from author Steven Williams! This incredible toolkit includes an assortment of dungeon maps, puzzles, fully detai…
Corruption Rules for your DnD Campaigns
This week we discuss Matt Mercer’s Corruption: An adaptation of corruption rules of 5th edition DnD gives you the tools you need to inject some of this menace into your games.
Certain landscapes hous…
100 Ways to Excuse a Character Absence
This week we cover the must have Dungeons and Dragons supplement from Alex Clippinger "100 Ways to Excuse a Character Absence" a must have DMsguild supplement.
"I'm so sorry, I can't make it this wee…
Go for the Eyes!
We discuss the amazing 5e supplement "Go for the Eyes" by Alex Clippinger
In Go for the Eyes, you'll find ways to throw curveballs at players who thought they knew monster stat blocks by heart.
Targe…
Class Analysis: GUN Mage
This week we discuss and break down our sorcerous origin the GUN Mage. A D&D character option on the DMsguild.
While many sorcerers find themselves able to naturally tap into the well of magic inside…