Episode 201: Fifth Year Begins

Hello everyone, and welcome to our newest year! This week we're back to our usual shenanigans (though we had a lot of fun with the Listener Submissions episode- don't be surprised if we do that again sometime) and we've hit the ground running. We're discussing our hopes for D&D releases in 2021, as well as some tips for using consumables in encounters (even if those were meant as treasure). We have a lot of fun in this episode, so hopefully you agree!

And this week's winner of our giveaway for Crit Academy's Unearthed Tips & Tricks: Volume II is Ravel G! Congratulations, Ravel! Be sure to leave Crit Academy a review, so they can keep on making great products! They're a great group and would love to use your feedback to improve their products in the future.

Would YOU like a chance to win a copy of Unearthed Tips & Tricks Volume II? It's a great book (that I helped write!) and all you have to do to win is enter our drawing by sending us an e-mail with "Unearthed Tips & Tricks 2" in the subject line. (Gotta have that 2 in there though!) It's that easy!

And remember, Crit Academy is just one of the great podcasts in the Critnation Fellowship! For more podcasts, visit our friends at Brute Force and Ignorance, and the (unfortunately ended) D&D Character Lab! And for books, adventures, and videos, check out Goblin Stone, Loresmyth, Aurican's Lair, Jeff Stevens, and The Kind GM!

Catch you next time, unless I accidentally drink next week's episode!

Episode 201: Inheriting the Future

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Question(s) answered this episode:

1. What would you like to see for official d&d content for 2021?

2. Oftentimes in modules, baddies will be described as having useful consumables as treasure items. As a DM, is it good, bad, or acceptable to use these consumables and not leave them as loot for the PCs?

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Noteworthy Links:

The Film Reroll, a great podcast whose main host guested on our podcast a while ago!

The McElroy brothers, a family of podcast hosts I would love to have on as guests sometime

Duckfeed.tv, a network of podcasts I've been listening to for years (and some of their hosts we've had on in the past)

Mythic Odysseys of Theros, a 5th Edition D&D supplement from Wizards of the Coast

Hades, an amazing Roguelite that came out in 2020

Planescape, a great campaign setting from the earlier days of D&D

3rd Edition published adventures

Hero Forge, a great website for designing and purchasing custom miniatures and character tokens

Heromachine, an older online tool for designing character portraits

World of Warcraft

Discworld, a novel series by Terry Pratchett

Ernest P. Worrell

Bob Ross

Nameless Bard, a character I mistakenly recalled as Immortal Bard

C. S. Lewis, a fantasy writer known for the Chronicles of Narnia

Hamilton, a documentary about the founding father of the same name

Dr. Seuss

The Black Egg, a particularly deadly adventure module from Dungeon Magazine 106