Crit Academy: A Dungeons And Dragons Podcast

How Do I Run Time Travel in Dungeons and Dragons? You don’t have to look hard to come across a story involving time travel. We find the plot device in many genres of books, films, and comics. Although science fiction leans heaviest on time travel—killer robots sent back to terminate the mother of a dangerous revolutionary are certainly a well-known example. In this episode, we discuss tips, tricks and pitfalls of Time Travel in your D&D stories and campaigns.

Adventuring in Dungeons & Dragons is a life of treacherous mountain passes, deadly beasts, and other dangers that can leave an adventurer near death. This fact makes any and all who can bend magic to seal wounds, cure diseases and remove dark curses a valuable asset. But, which subclass is the best? Cleric of life domain? Divine soul sorcerer? Celestial warlock? Well, in this episode, we are joined by the fantastic Aelx Bomb and share our Top 5 picks for the best healers in Dungeons & Dragons. Join our D&D Discussions Live on Sundays @ 7pm Est or on our Youtube Channel here!

Join our D&D Discussions Live on Sundays @ 7pm Est or on our Youtube Channel here! Benefactors come in all shapes and sizes and everyone can use a helping hand once in a while. Sometimes, however, relationships with a patron, employer, or other types of benefactor can become strained. Or worse. Detailed in Benebads are entities who can offer benefits to a party of adventurers in the short or long term, but who can also transform into a formidable villain, providing conflict, intrigue, and excitement for any type of campaign. Each “BeneBad” has a detailed history and description, a full-page piece of art, a secret agenda, group patron perks, known associates, and a list of quests and other adventure seeds to get your creative juices flowing. Many offer maps of their stronghold or lair from which they operate as well as ways to fit them into your particular campaign world and alternative motivations for their behavior. Get your copy of Benebads Here!

Bard College of Percussion for Dungeons & Dragons Join our D&D Discussions Live on Sundays @ 7pm Est or on our Youtube Channel here! Best-selling Dmsguild author Chan Lensch joins us to share a bit about his work and talk with us about his passion project the Bard College of Percussion. The bards of percussion manipulate the emotions of those around them. They are excellent communicators, know the hearts of those around them, and are in tune with their surroundings whether on or off the battlefield. The bards of the college of percussion are popular in the large armies of nobles and kings, as well as the humble war-bands of barbarian tribes and other savages. This shows that the percussive arts speak to all, regardless of their station and rank. Oh, did we mention that it comes with a fleshed-out faction? Bonus! There are some pretty cool backgrounds, subclasses and not to mention the great detail on instruments in here. The backgrounds really intrigued me. One thing really caught my eye is in th

10 World-shaking Events for Dungeons & Dragons When we think of world-shaking events, we tend to think big: wars that pit the forces of good against evil in a final confrontation, natural disasters that lay waste to entire civilizations, invasions of vast armies, or extraplanar hordes, assassinations of world leaders. These are the events that title the chapters of history.

Dungeons & Dragons does a lot of things great. But there is one particular detail that is lacking. Any rogue player will tell you the rules for running heists are nearly non-existent. Well, Jimmy Meritt creator of Here's to Crime: A Guide to Capers and Heists has you covered! Oh boy, did he nail it! This small but mighty product will have the thieves, rogues, and masterminds in your group trembling with excitement! Films and shows like “Ocean’s 11”, “Mission: Impossible”, and “Leverage” make capers incredibly entertaining to watch, but it can be difficult to capture that same excitement at the gaming table. Planning sessions can devolve into tedium, and the caper itself can feel like a normal dungeon crawl, without twists or surprises. Well Here’s To Crime: A Guide to Capers and Heists helps you to evoke the energy and mood of our favorite heists and capers by breaking it into three steps with four possible approaches that form the basis of their caper.

Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition has certainly taken a different approach to their game design from past editions. They opened their playtest material to fans to play and experiment with mechanics and themes before the official release using their Unearthed Arcana. So you can bet your ass that we follow these releases pretty closely and choose what to cover. Well, there was no way in the Nine Hells we're going to miss out on talking (and speculating) on the details in the Travelers of the Multiverse UA. Inside we found a plethora of content that is just...out of this world. Astral elves with radiant souls? Check. mechanical gnomes built by rock gnomes? Check. Insectile creatures encased in a protective chitin? Check. Giant flying squirrels? Check. Also...rules for playing an ooze? Hell yeah, and there is more! As I said, just totally alien. We have hive hopes and thoughts on this Unearthed Arcana. Come join us as we discuss the mechanics and speculate the future of our adventures beyond our homeworlds.

Alternative Race Lore for Dungeons and Dragons Sponsor: Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code CRIT at www.manscaped.com. Your dice will thank you. The release of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything introduced custom lineages that can allow the player to customize this from a mechanical standpoint. One thing that has always been consistent (albeit with small changes) in the history of those races and the way they interact and are perceived by others in the world the game is set in. The most famous of which is Faerun in the Forgotten Realms. In this, the lore and style of the races have been pretty consistent. Well, in this episode we want to mix that up. Popular Tiktoker and streamer Aelx Bomb joins us as we provide new and fresh looks at some of our favorite races. Providing them with new lore and themes for you to drop into your Dungeons & Dragons stories and campaigns.

Limitless Heroics: Comprehensive Disability Compendium for Tabletop RPGs Sponsor: Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code CRIT at www.manscaped.com. Your dice will thank you. What if you could make the real world a better place by playing Dungeons & Dragons? When you play a tabletop role-playing game like 5e, you want to be the hero. The world is different for you having been there, better. What if you could make the real world better by playing an RPG?! That’s what Limitless Heroics is all about. Limitless Heroics is the most comprehensive disability compendium ever created for a Tabletop Role-Playing Game. Inside this fantastic Fifth Edition supplement you will find: Related Article: World Building - Dawn of Worlds 450+ Symptoms: Game mechanics for nearly every symptom in existence (plus some fantasy symptoms, because that’s what you should expect in a world with magic) 78 Random tables to choose or generate the symptoms, their degree of severity, and their frequency (Get all of

Bloodied and Bruised: Dynamic Combat Monster Manual Options Sponsor: Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code CRIT at www.manscaped.com. Your dice will thank you. Do you want to make your Dungeons and Dragons combat feel more dynamic? Do you want your players and their characters to "feel" the progression of battle as they exchange blows with the enemy? If so, then you need to check out Bloodied & Bruised! New options for your D&D Monster Manual! The “bloodied” condition, originally from Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, is used to signify how a creature is faring in a combat scenario. A creature becomes bloodied when it reaches half of its hit point maximum (rounded down), which acts as a way of communicating the state of an opponent in a fight. Telling the players the creature they are fighting is bloodied shows them how far along in the fight they are and whether they should be planning a retreat or going in for the kill. Today we discuss a product that includes clever details a

10 Dungeons & Dragons World Building Tips Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code CRIT at www.manscaped.com. Your dice will thank you. "When playing Dungeon & Dragons, there's nothing quite like being the Dungeon Master. While players are able to experience exciting adventures and play their characters with more freedom than nearly any other type of game can allow, DMs are in control of the entire world the campaign inhabits. In addition to controlling all NPCs, a DM is responsible for creating a fleshed-out world for players to explore. The type of world a DM establishes can vary greatly, drawing influences from everything from their favorite video games to their favorite shows. While this may appear daunting at first to new DMs, there are many ways to develop the world of a campaign and provide a campaign with a great deal of diversity. So today, we're going to examine ten things that new Dungeon Masters can do to improve their world-building skills for their campaigns!" Paul Disalvo

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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons More ink has been spilled on describing dragons than on nearly any other creature. These ancient, noble, yet savage beasts are a favorite subject of guidebooks, bards’ tales, and ancient tomes and scrolls. True dragons are winged reptiles of ancient lineage and fearsome power. With life spans stretching into millennia, they are a repository for the vast knowledge and ancient secrets. They are most known and feared for their predatory cunning and greed, with the oldest dragons accounted as some of the most powerful creatures in the world. In this episode, we will be digging into Dungeons and Dragons' new Fizban's Treasury of Dragons with special guest popular D&D tiktok star Hello Operator. Learn More: https://www.critacademy.com/post/fizbanstreasuryofdragons Do you want to become a better D&D Dungeon Master or Player? If so, then make sure to smash that Subscribe Button! http://www.youtube.com/c/critacademy?sub_confirmation=1 Over 7,000 subscribers just like you are al

Orcs worship GRUUMSH, THE ONE-EYED GOD OF SLAUGHTER, and are savage, bloodthirsty marauders. They plague the civilized races of the world and also fight among themselves to prove their strength and take the treasure. They love close combat and plunge furiously into the thick of battle, giving no thought to retreat or surrender. Join us as we delve into getting the most out of the combat aspects of the various Orcs in the 5e Monster Manual. Show Notes: https://www.critacademy.com/post/dungeons-dragons-monster-tactics-orcs Sign Up for our newsletter to get a FREE copy of our best-selling D&D Supplement: Challenge Accepted. You will also be entered to win our weekly RPG PhatLoot Giveaways! Do you want to become a better D&D Dungeon Master or Player? If so, then make sure to smash that Subscribe Button! http://www.youtube.com/c/critacademy?sub_confirmation=1 Over 7,000 subscribers just like you are also looking to build their Roleplaying muscles!  Become a Patron and get Hundreds of new resources for y

Adventurers spend a great deal of time delving into dungeons, uncovering lost secrets, and slaying monsters. In between all the action, they need a bit of a break from the familiar. What better way than with Mini-Games? Well then hold on to your dice and join us as we discuss how to create and run Mini Games in Dungeons & Dragons. Crit Academy interviews Game Designer Geoffery Golden. Geoffrey has written for Capcom, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Disney, and indie studios around the world. Driven by a love for telling compelling interactive stories in a variety of mediums, his work spans TTRPGs, console games, mobile games, zines, comic books and much more.

Dungeon Masters! Do you ever find yourself in the need of quick quest hooks or short adventures? With these 50 Notice Board Quests, you will always have something ready when your characters decide to bob instead of weave. 50 Notice Board Quests was developed by Drop the Die with the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition tabletop game in mind, but when writing it, their goal was to give only the framework for potential quests players could choose to involve themselves in. This pretty much means it’s system and setting agnostic! Making it a powerful tool for all Dungeon Masters.

Displacer beasts look like enormous panthers, but their barbed tentacles and illusions make them far deadlier. They quietly stalk their prey before bringing it down as quickly as possible in an ambush. The displacer beast's cunning, stealth, and ferocity have earned it a reputation as one of the most well-known predators of the Feywild. The creature's image is used in heraldry and literature to indicate a character or an organization that is elusive, tricky, or mysterious. A surprise attack by a displacer beast means a quick death for most. The beast's speed is so great, and its attacks so fierce, that it can swiftly drop anyone who is not prepared and trained for battle. Join us, as we delve deeper into getting the most out of your Displacer Beasts in combat.

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What is a West Marches Dungeons & Dragons game? For this episode we delve into a fantastic article written by Ars Ludi the Grand Experiment. West Marches was designed to be pretty much the diametric opposite of the normal weekly game: There was no regular time: every session was scheduled by the players on the fly. There was no regular party: each game had different players drawn from a pool of around 10-14 people. There was no regular plot: The players decided where to go and what to do. It was a sandbox game in the sense that’s now used to describe video games like Grand Theft Auto, minus the missions. There was no mysterious old man sending them on quests. No overarching plot, just an overarching environment. Listen now, and hear our thoughts on this underused and fantastic campaign format.

Brace Yourself… From project lead Apostol Aostolov and a talented community of DMs we discuss Grit & Glory! For decades, running realistic campaigns using the world's greatest role-playing game has been an impossible feat. Previous editions showered players with supernatural abilities and magic items until only monsters of legend present a formidable challenge. In this episode, we discuss Grit and Glory, an Advanced Player's Guide to low fantasy and expanded combat, equipment, attrition, and recovery rules that focus on gritty gameplay.