September 7th is our Fifth Anniversary, and what better way to celebrate 5 amazing years of Idle Champions than with a new campaign, giveaways, livestreams, and updates to the game! It's time for our Fifth Anniversary Celebration!

Fifth Anniversary Celebration

It's been another fantastic year for Idle Champions! We saw our 100th Champion, began our journey through the Wild Beyond the Witchlight, supercharged our modron cores, added new evergreen Champions, thrilled at the stories of the Court of the Raven Queen and the Black Pits, watched A Familiar Quest, and much more. So we're excited to celebrate our anniversary with more content, more updates, and more fun!

Daily Rewards

Every day during the Fifth Anniversary Celebration you can log in and open a new Birthday chest, but each chest is only available for 24 hours! Each chest contains 5 awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures. If you get goodies in those chests for content you have not yet unlocked, then your account will retain those items and save them for you to enjoy when you have unlocked those systems in the game.

Once you have claimed at least four daily Birthday chests, you unlock Viconia as well as an exclusive Vecna Cultist Viconia skin, an epic Viconia feat, and 3 gold Viconia chests!

Vecna Lives!

This week we launch an update to the Grand Tour of the Sword Coast with a new fork in the road. Do you continue along the traveled path to Longsaddle and the Mists of Ravenloft? Or will you brave a trip to Candlekeep and face off against The Whispered One himself...VECNA!

• Vecna Lives! - Explore the emergency in Candlekeep and discover a new threat to Faer?n.
• Variant 1: Overwhelmed with Knowledge - Explore the emergency in Candlekeep with Champions that are amazed by the library.
• Only Champions with an INT of 15 or higher may be used.
• The Overwhelm for all Champions is set to 1.
• Complete area 325.
• Vecna Loots! - Stop the assault on Candlekeep before Vecna can achieve his goal!
• Variant 1: Well Equipped - Stop the assault on Candlekeep with your best equipped Champions!
• Only Champions with Rare or better equipment in every equipment slot may be used.
• A wizard student joins the formation. They just get in the way.
• Complete area 325.

Idle Champions Presents: Vecna Lives!

A motely crew of Champions have been rallied, at VERY short notice, to defend one of the biggest cities on the Sword Coast from The Whispered One! Erin M. Evans is the Dungeon Master for this intense one shot with players Vee Mus'e as Voronika, Noura Ibrahim as Nahara, Masood Haque as Gazrick, and Lauren Urban as Orkira.



Watch live on Wednesday, September 7th at 12pm Pacific on our Twitch Channel! And join us all day for our Fifth Anniversary Day of Streaming to collect the Vecna Cultist Korth Skin, and unlock Korth along with 3 Gold Korth Chests!

Bardic Inspiration Vol 3 In-Game Soundtrack Update!

The bard and the scribe from Bardic Inspiration have been hard at work turning ten of the most recently crafted tunes into fully produced songs! All will be added to the Jukebox for you to rock out to while crafting your formations. The track list includes:

• 1. Ballad of the Black Rose (Lord Soth, Episode 63)
• 2. Beware the Purple Worm (Purple Worms, Episode 41)
• 3. Cry for Justice (Bahamut, Episode 47)
• 4. Displaced Displacer (Displacer Beasts, Episode 46)
• 5. Hate Makes You Cold (Zorbu, Episode 12)
• 6. Judged by Kelemvor (Kelemvor, Episode 43)
• 7. Kobolds are Number One (Kobolds, Episode 52)
• 8. Lord of Secrets, The Whispered One (Vecna, Episode 66)
• 9. My Sweet Raven Queen (Orcus & The Raven Queen, Episode 53)
• 10. The Lorekeeper's Legacy (Alyndra Sarrbarand, Episode 27)

Founder's Pack V, New Gem Shop Skins, and an Anniversary Sale!

A new year brings a new Founder's Pack, filled with awesome goodies to help you complete your adventures! Full details can be found in the in-game shop, but take a look at what's in store:

• Founder's Pack V - It's time for Bruenor to go to space! This exclusive Spelljammer Bruenor skin shows that he's ready for whatever wildspace is going to throw at the formation. Also included in this pack is an exclusive Space Mollymawk familiar, a Golden Epic Potion, an Epic Potion of the Gem Hunter, and a bevy of gold chests, gems, blacksmithing contracts, bounty contracts, and potions!

We've also added the following skins to the gem shop, which become visible and available once you've unlocked the corresponding Champion:

• Gladiator Tatyana
• Special Guest Star Catti-brie

Finally, we have an anniversary sale going on in-game across most of our platforms starting today. Collect some starter packs at our biggest discount yet, or pick up a few packs you've been waiting to grab!

Feedback Wanted!

Tell us all about your experience playing Idle Champions over the last five years on the Idle Champions Subreddit, on the Steam forums, or on the Official Idle Champions Discord!

A new Campaign, exciting new Blessings, a lot of Trials, many streamed celebrations, Daily Rewards, and even more! It's time for our Fourth Anniversary Celebration!

If you're interested in learning more about what's coming with this week's update, you've come to the right place...

Fourth Anniversary Celebration

It's been a fantastic year for Idle Champions, and we're excited to celebrate with our Community this game we all love! In our fourth year, we've rolled out quite a few features and systems, including our first co-operative multiplayer campaign: Trials of Mount Tiamat. We also released two Evergreen Champions, started a new campaign, launched on Epic Games Store, and ran a 6-week interactive livestream experience. All that certainly deserves a celebration, right?

Daily Rewards

Every day during the Fourth Anniversary Celebration you can log in and open a new Birthday chest, but each chest is only available for 24 hours! Each chest contains 5 awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures. If you get goodies in those chests for content you have not yet unlocked, then your account will retain those items and save them for you to enjoy when you have unlocked those systems in the game!

Once you have claimed at least four daily Birthday chests, you unlock an exclusive Witchlight Delina skin, an epic Delina feat, and 5 gold chests!

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Part 1

This week's content update brings the debut of a new campaign, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight! Check out the full The Wild Beyond the Witchlight blog post coming later today for details about the new adventures and variants filled with the wonder and danger of the Feywild!

Blessings Update

With a new campaign comes new Blessings, and we've also added more tiers of Blessings to other campaigns! You can find out all the details of each of the new local and global Blessings in the game, but here's an overview of the new tiers that are available:

• Grand Tour of the Sword Coast - Tier 5
• Tomb of Annihilation - Tier 5
• Waterdeep: Dragon Heist - Tier 4 & 5
• Descent into Avernus - Tier 4 & 5
• Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - Tier 2 & 3
• The Wild Beyond the Witchlight - Tier 1

Days Of Streaming

Our Twitch Channel has two days of anniversary celebration streams to enjoy! From 9am-4pm Pacific on Wednesday September 22nd and Thursday September 23rd you can watch special Q&A streams, interview shows, an exciting musical performance, tons of giveaways and contests, and so much more!

New Gem Shop Skins

We've added the following skins to the gem shop, which are visible and available once you've unlocked the corresponding Champion:

• Celestial Celeste
• Pirate Chef Krull
• Red Panda Briv
• Red Panda Freely

New DLC Packs

New DLC Packs are now available, featuring bundles of epic skins, awesome equipment, and adorable familiars to help you on your adventures in the new year! Full details can be found in the in-game shop, but take a look at what's in store:



Founder's Pack IV - Calliope is all ready to perform at the Witchlight Carnival in her fantastic new outfit! Along with this exclusive new Witchlight Calliope skin, this pack includes an exclusive Campestri Familiar and a bevy of gold chests, gems, and potions!

New Sketching Hour Familiars - The Sketching Hour is a livestream featuring the creation of brand new creatures from three random rolls, and thanks to the votes of our community, two of these fantastic creations have become Familiars in the game! Check out Hoot the Overgrown Owlbear Fox Familiar and Clover the Flower Dragon Parrot Familiar, both packs including a stock of potions!

Witchlight Warden Skin & Feat Pack - With iridescent dragonfly wings and an ornate rapier, Witchlight Warden is more beautiful and fearsome then ever! Along with this exclusive new Witchlight Warden skin, this pack includes the Champion Warden, an Epic Feat for Warden, 7 Gold Warden chests, and 1 guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card!

Witchlight Orkira & The Phoenix Theme Pack - Wings and cotton candy for everyone! Along with this exclusive new Witchlight Orkira skin, this pack includes the Champion Orkira, her fierce Phoenix Familiar, an Epic Feat for Orkira, 1 Epic Potion of the Gold Hunter, and 16 Gold Orkira Chests with 2 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Cards!

Feedback Wanted!

These changes are scheduled to go live later today. We very much look forward to your feedback, so please let us know what you think in a Community Q&A or feedback post on the Idle Champions Subreddit, a post on the Steam forums, or on the Official Idle Champions Discord!

Early Access Update #12

Rejoice, followers of Kelemvor! Your patron, the lord of the dead, judge of the damned, who despises the undead and seeks a peaceful transition for all, has seen fit to bless those who have earned his favor. You can now purchase Kelemvor's Blessings in the Blessings store!

Features:

• Added Kelemvor's Blessings.


• Added in-game support for steam DLC discounts.


• For more information on how Divine Blessings work, refer to our Divine Favor Blog. TL/DR: Choose wisely!

See the in-game FAQ for more information!