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
Ancestral Weapons
This week we discuss Ancestral Weapons by Dungeon Rollers. A Dungeons and Dragons 5e supplement with rules for creating powerful heirloom weapons that evolve and grow with your players.
A noble blade…
Monstrous Races
This week we delve into DMsguild creator Tyler Kamstra's Dungeons and Dragons 5e supplement Monstrous Races.
Whether you’re playing an all-monster party or just want to play a monstrous race in an ot…
Planeswalkers of Ravnica
We interview DMsguild.com creator Christopher Willet on his D&D supplement "Planeswalkers of Ravnica". It provides Dungeon Masters and Players with tools for incorporating Planeswalkers into their Ra…
D&D: Gamemasters' Guide to Ravnica
This week we discuss a new supplement setting book for Dungeons and Dragons, Ravnica. Ravnica originally appeared as a setting for the MTG trading card game Ravnica is one of the most popular setting…
D&D: Fortresses, Temples, and Strongholds
This week we discuss player made structures with Fortress, Temples, and Strongholds. A guide to player made structures by Walrock Homebrew
The world is a wild and scary place, full of monsters, malev…
Episode 111: Villains and Lairs
We interview Jeff Stevens: Creator of the best selling book Villains and lairs. Expand your D&D game with this collection of 56 NPCs of various Challenge Ratings, thirteen of which include maps and d…
Episode 110: Greasemonkey's Handbook
Dungeons and Dragons is filled with fantastical machines, magical constructs, and everything in between. What if you could create one of these constructs for yourself?
The Greasemonkey’s Handbook is …
Episode 109: The Malady Codex
We take a look at "The Malady Codex" A supplement that is written by medical students with a love for tabletop role playing games. Inspired by the vast array of diseases, and the medieval myths that…
Episode 108: Little Heroes
This week we interview Anne Gregersen author of the DMsguild best selling product "Little Heroes" a guidebook for those who are looking to play D&D with children at the table. It also includes infor…
Episode 107: Skill Challenges
We discuss introducing skill challenges into your games. Skill challenges are a series of skill checks by multiple characters, where a certain amount of successes spread across multiple skills and ch…
Episode 106: Create an Oath
Love playing those holy warriors but tired of the same old Oaths? Today we interview Matthew Gravelyn and discuss his sourcebook "Create-An-Oath: A Paladin Oath Creation Guide" which provides a clear…
Episode 105: Class Analysis: Matt Mercer's Gunslinger
Episode 104: Class Analysis: Blood Hunter Part 2
Special Show: Crit Academy Critmas Play
This week we detour from our normal D&D discussion format and share our Christmas themed adventure we ran with our patreon donors. We hope that you enjoy this actual play episode. Our heroes set out …
Episode 103: Class Analysis: Blood Hunter
Episode 102: Law of the Land
Episode 101: Weapon Options
Episode 100: Live Show - RPG mechanics for your D&D Game
Episode 99: Solo Adventurer's Toolbox