Crit Academy: A Dungeons and Dragons Podcast

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5th Evolution: Carbide City Nov 25, 2020

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Crit Academy discusses 5th Evolution (5evo): Carbide City! This awesome supplement was developed by Limitless Adventures takes the wildly popular Dungeons and Dragons 5e game mechanics and applies them to new genres. This 5evo product brings superheroes to your stories and campaigns! This fantastic supplement is the perfect marriage of comics and roleplaying.

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This episode is brought to you by our generous sponsor, Kobold Press!

Unearthed Arcana: Subclasses Part 5 Nov 18, 2020

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Crit Academy discusses the newest Dungeons and Dragons playtest material. Unearthed Arcana: Subclasses 5. The two new subclasses; Way of the Ascendant Dragon monk and Drakewarden bring a breath of fresh dragon fire to the Monk and Ranger classes. And as always, we bring you new and creative Dungeons and Dragons content.

Unearthed Arcana 2020 Subclasses, Part 5

Show Notes: https://www.critacademy.com/post/episode195

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Warlock Grimoire Nov 11, 2020

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Crit Academy delves into the vault of the legendary RPG creator Kobold Press! We crack open the Warlock Grimoire 2! Within these dusty pages, uncover the secrets of the world—indeed, of the branches of the multiverse! Collected here are entire lost volumes of esoteric truths. Only for you, the Warlock Grimoire 2! Dark revelations and wondrous testimonials of dark fantasy monsters and magic, locales and lore of Midgard.

Show Notes: https://www.critacademy.com/post/episode194

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Dungeon Design Nov 04, 2020

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Dungeon design in Dungeons and Dragons is hands down one of the most fun aspects of being a Dungeon Master. With it comes the challenge of designing fun dungeons that engage all three pillars of play; exploration, roleplay and combat. We are joined by Matt Whitby, podcaster, Dmsguild writer and youtuber. Together we discuss what goes into making a fantastic dungeon for your characters to explore.

Show Notes: https://www.critacademy.com/post/episode193

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Rise of the Murder Hobo Oct 28, 2020

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Crit Academy is joined by Sam, The Education DM! Sam has been a DM since the mid-80s, and a teacher since the late 90s. He is passionate about Dungeons and Dragons, and Education, and mixing the two. His Facebook page is chock full of informative D&D material. Make sure to give him a follow and a share.

He joins us today to talk about his Dump Stat article "The Rise of the Murder Hobo - D&D Teaching Moral Values"

"Whilst I have seen some disagreement in the discussion as to what a Murder Hobo is, what I would rather discuss here is what I see as a rise in a lack of morals amongst characters... or is it in the players?"

-Sam, The Educational DM

Show Notes: https://www.critacademy.com/post/episode192

Adventures from a Potbellied Kobold Oct 21, 2020

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Crit Academy is joined by the best-selling Dmsguild author Jeff Stevens! He joins us today to discuss his current and first Kickstarter Adventures from the Potbellied Kobold!

Let's face it, as game masters we don't always have the time to prepare an adventure for the next gaming session. This isn't our fault, we can't predict what chaos may occur in our everyday lives. Nor can we always be prepared for when the adventuring party turns left when they should have turned right. Adventures from the Potbellied Kobold hopes to remedy this by supplying you with one-shot adventures designed to run quickly and efficiently, with many requiring little preparation time.

Show Notes: https://www.critacademy.com/post/episode191

Adventures from the Potbellied Kobold: https://bit.ly/3dEjiqb

Bigby's Handbook of Creative Spell Use Oct 14, 2020

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Crit Academy discusses Bigby's Handbook of Creative Spell Use! A Dungeons and Dragons supplement designed to provide DMs and Players with powerful spell combinations that will allow you to terrorize your enemies. The handbook includes annotations from the one and only Bigby (character creation of D&D great, Rob Kuntz, and founding member of Greyhawk's 'Circle of Eight'). It offers a host of amazing, super creative, and RAW adhering spell and caster combos to help optimize and get the most out of your spellcasting.

Bigby's Handbook of Creative Spell Use

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Challenge Accepted Oct 07, 2020

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Dungeons and Dragons is a game that consists of multiple pillars of play; combat, roleplay and exploration. Crit Academy discusses their best-selling DMsguild product "Challenge Accepted". This adaptation is designed to help enhance all those various challenges in a controlled and structured format called a skill challenge. In many scenarios, our heroes find themselves in encounters and social situations that revolve entirely around their skills. Other times they are in combat and skill challenges add a level of complexity or strategy to the encounter. This supplement contains pre-designed skill challenges that you can fit into your campaigns.

Challenge Accepted: https://bit.ly/33lyl4y

Show Notes: https://www.critacademy.com/post/episode189

Eyes Unclouded Sep 30, 2020

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Crit Academy discusses Eyes Unclouded an anthology of adventures for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, inspired by classic Japanese animation. Entreat with the Cat King of the Feywild, learn the truth behind a curse affecting an ancient forest, race by airship to find a lost sky fortress and more!

Eyes Unclouded is a full-color 180 page digital PDF that includes 11 original adventures for players of level 1 – 14. In addition, we've included 8 recipes inspired by the adventures that can be made at home.

Eyes Unclouded:

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Metagaming In Dungeons and Dragons Sep 23, 2020

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Crit Academy is joined by Gabe and Jeff from the roleplaying game podcast Inter-party Conflict. We discuss the good, bad, and ugly of metagaming in the world of Dungeons and Dragons and other roleplaying games. Metagaming can take many forms. Usually, it will be blatant and obvious, but other times it can be subtle and sometimes it's good, and sometimes not. We discuss the differences.

Challenge Accepted II Now Available!

Show Notes: https://www.critacademy.com/post/episode187

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