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
Toolkits What are they Good for?
In D&D tools help you to do something you couldn’t otherwise do, such as craft or repair an item, forge a document, or pick a lock. Your character features give you proficiency with certain tools. Pr…
D&D Advice: Progress Clocks| Unearthed Tips and Tricks Podcast
D&D Advice: Progress Clocks | Unearthed Tips and Tricks Podcast
Crit Academy drops a new encounter, monster, magic item, and tips and tricks to help improve your Dungeons and Dragons game. We discuss…
Turn Overland Travel in 5e Into an Extraordinary Experience
Forests are more than a collection of trees-they are the feeling of dew-slicked moss yielding beneath your feet, the subtle smell of petrichor, and the beams of golden s…
D&D Advice: Of Quartz we'll find it | Unearthed Tips and Tricks Podcast
D&D Advice: Of Quartz we'll find it | Unearthed Tips and Tricks Podcast
Crit Academy drops a new encounter, monster, magic item, and tips and tricks to help improve your Dungeons and Dragons game. Ou…
The NPC Handbook: How to build Quality NPCs for your D&D Games
Nonplayer characters (NPCs) are the supporting cast in the drama that stars your players’ characters. While you probably create important ones as needed. Having a simple guide can help flesh them out…
D&D Advice: Redefine Races and Lineage
D&D Advice: Redefine Races and Lineage | Unearthed Tips and Tricks Podcast
Crit Academy drops a new monster, magic item, and tips and tricks to help improve your Dungeons and Dragons game. Our DM tip…
D&D: Monster Hunter 5e
Do you love hunting massive monsters and using their corpses to craft rare and fantastical weapons? Do you wish D&D 5e included good details for this? Well, strap in as we delve into Amellwind’s Guid…
D&D Advice: Spell Reagents, Brodents and more
D&D Advice: Spell Reagents, Brodents and more | Unearthed Tips and Tricks Podcast
Crit Academy drops a new monster, magic item, and tips and tricks to help improve your Dungeons and Dragons game. Our…
Better Boss Battles in Dungeons and Dragons with Home-Field Advantage
Lair actions, introduced in D&D 5th Edition, give shape to epic battles by introducing new gameplay mechanics which the players will associate with a boss monster for years to come. However, despite …
D&D Advice: Points of Interest
D&D Advice: Points of Interest | Unearthed Tips and Tricks Podcast 3
Crit Academy drops a new monster, magic item and tips and tricks to help improve your Dungeons and Dragons game. Our monster, the …
How to Create a Seedy Dive in Dungeons and Dragons
The best information adventurers in Dungeons and Dragons seek isn’t found in a Tavern or an Inn but inside a seedy dive. Stick around as we delve into how to create a great seedy dive for your more u…
D&D: The Right Zombie for the Job
Unearthed Tips and Tricks Podcast 2
Crit Academy talks about the multiple benefits of using animate dead spells that are more than just zombie meat shields and so much more.
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Fixing Problem in a Dungeons and Dragons Adventure
Fixing Problem in a Dungeons and Dragons Adventure
Occasionally, the characters decide to go exactly the wrong way, pursuing a path not covered in the adventure at all. They discover a shortcut that …
D&D: Roleplaying, Improvisation and More
Unearthed Tips and Tricks Volume 1 Podcast
Crit Academy brings you a body-snatching ooze, roleplaying advice, a unique spell reagent to enhance your magic spells and so much more for your Dungeons an…
Designing a Fictional Alphabet for Dungeons & Dragons
How to create your own alphabet for your stories and campaigns.
Have you ever designed your own fictional alphabet for your Dungeons and Dragons world? Well, strap in as we discuss doing just that. T…
Exotic Equipment Perks
In 5e the single largest lackluster choice is the weapon. There isn’t much in the way of uniqueness to separate them, except for maybe the damage die and a few restricting traits. Not to mention, som…
Big Changes coming to D&D Character Origins
Wizards have announced the next evolution of Dungeons and Dragons, and it isn’t a new Edition! Today we discuss the first of many pieces of playtest material for the 2024 update for the Player’s Hand…
How to Run Monster Hordes in D&D
How do I Run Monster Hordes in D&D?
Looking to pit your characters against the creatures of hell flooding through a rift? Well, today we teach you a simple technique to do just that. Join us as we sh…
The Best Worldbuilding Tool for Dungeon Masters
Building an entire world for your roleplaying game is a HUGE amount of work. What if, with a click of a button you could have a world map, regions, cities, towns, villages, and more all created in ju…
Wonders of the Multiverse
The Wonders of the Multiverse continue to grow! The new Unearthed Arcana playtest is here! Stick around as we delve into a new race, the fate domain cleric, backgrounds, feats and more.
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