Crit Academy: A Dungeons and Dragons Podcast

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Ancestral Weapons Apr 03, 2019

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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 wielded in the blood wars, an axe used to protect the great city of Mirabar from orc invasions, or a powerful staff passed down through the eons. Ancestral weapons, heirlooms, are iconic within roleplaying. These weapons embody a character's family, story, and their history. These weapons are as important to many characters as their race, class, or background, to these people the opportunity to carry these items in their adventures is the true reward.

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Monstrous Races Mar 27, 2019

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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 otherwise normal party, this document presents rules for playing every creature in the Monster Manual, new feats and backgrounds for monstrous characters, analysis of officially published races, highly detailed rules for building your own races, new rules for tiny races, and rules for templates for player characters.

This supplement is for 5th-edition Dungeons and Dragons.

What is in this document?

228 playable races (every creature in the Monster Manual, no exceptions!)
116 subraces
13 templates for Player Characters, including new rules for Lycanthropes and Vampires
Design notes discussing how everything in the document was built and suggestions for changing everything to fit your game
Rules for Tiny, Large, Huge, and Gargantuan player races
New feats
New backgrounds

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Planeswalkers of Ravnica Mar 20, 2019

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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 Ravnica campaigns. It includes;

A new Planeswalker background with a color based alignment system. Your color grants you access to exclusive spells.
Every spell in the Players Handbook is categorized by their corresponding color on the color wheel.
Statblocks for 8 planeswalkers who are active on Ravnica including Jace Beleren and Gideon Jura.
5 new spells inspired by cards from Magic: The Gathering
2 brand new magic items
3 new monsters

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D&D: Gamemasters' Guide to Ravnica Mar 13, 2019

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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 settings, in part because the world's ten guilds strongly support the way players build MAGIC decks.

Ravnica is a whole new world for your D&D campaign to explore. A vast, sprawling city that covers the whole of the known world, Ravnica teems with intrigue and adventure, driven by the conflicts among the ten powerful guilds that rule the city.

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D&D: Fortresses, Temples, and Strongholds Mar 06, 2019

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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, malevolence, and myriad evils to be expunged.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a place to unwind? A place to hang your hat, build and customize, and to call your home?

Wouldn't it be nice to leave your mark in the world? To build a permanent edifice as a testament to the ages, a bulwark of safety against the ravages of time?

Would you build a mighty temple to your gods, proclaiming your faith far and wide? A dreary dungeon complete with a grotto of poisonous herbs and holding cells for those that would oppose you? Or a quiet cottage in the forest, an idyllic and relaxing retreat holding a simple magical study?

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Episode 111: Villains and Lairs Feb 27, 2019

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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 details of their lairs. Add these NPCs as a side-quest, a main villain, a one-shot, a bounty for easy money, or however else you wish. Written by some of the best-selling authors on the Dungeon Masters Guild and outstanding podcasters, each NPC includes an image, a backstory, motives, flaws, and a stat block. Some even include new magic items!

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Episode 110: Greasemonkey's Handbook Feb 20, 2019

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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 for you! It's been designed from the ground up to be just that. In this supplement you will find rules for building, maintaining, outfitting and fighting with or alongside your very own All Terrain Utility Machine - or A.T.U.M for short.

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Episode 109: The Malady Codex Feb 13, 2019

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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 once surrounded them, to enrich other worlds with fantastical diseases.

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Episode 108: Little Heroes Feb 06, 2019

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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 information to those who are looking to play as a child, and offers options when making such a character.

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Episode 107: Skill Challenges Jan 30, 2019

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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 characters must be achieved before a number of failures.

Our show may not be suitable for children, but neither is our D&D game. Get your Copy Here https://www.dmsguild.com/product/259850/Skill-Challenges-in-5e?affiliate_id=1546158

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