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November 30th, 2021
Idle Champions: Year's End Festival 2021 
Posted in Idle Champions.

The year is almost over, and we thought we'd celebrate with a Years' End Festival. Let's finish off the year with daily rewards, a day of streaming, a gem shop update, and return to the north for the conclusion of the Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign!

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

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Year's End Festival

It's been a fantastic year for Idle Champions, and we're excited to celebrate with our Community this game we all love! We're rounding out 2021 for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms with themes appropriate for this time of year: Entertainment, giving, and a positive theme to end what has been another very tumultuous year for most.

Dungeons & Dragons Year's End Festival Daily Rewards

Daily Rewards

Every day during the Year's End Festival you can log in and open a new Celebration 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 Celebration chests, you unlock an exclusive Icewind Dale Asharra skin, an epic Asharra feat, and 5 Gold Chests!

Dungeons & Dragons Year's End Festival Icewind Dale Zorbu Key Art

Day Of Streaming

Our Twitch Channel has an exciting day of streaming for you to enjoy! From 9 am - 6 pm Pacific on Wednesday, December 1st you can watch special Q&A streams, interview shows, an exciting musical performance, tons of giveaways and contests, and so much more!

Dungeons & Dragons Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Part 10

Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Part 10

This week's content update brings the exciting conclusion of the Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden! With concluding the campaign, we're also bringing Tier 4 & 5 Icewind Dale Blessings to the game.

Additionally, Icewind Dale, Part 10 brings our latest Evergreen Champion, Xerophon. Xerophon can be unlocked by completing A Lesson in Classes the second variant for The Fall of Ythryn adventure.



New Evergreen Champion: Xerophon

Xerophon is a Support Champion who uses their excellent imitation skills to provide valuable information to the rest of the formation. When you want to add Xerophon to your formation you can swap them out with Minsc (Slot 7).

For more information about our latest Evergreen Champion, check out the Idle Champion Spotlight: Xerophon blog post!



New Gem Shop Items

We've added the following skins to the gem shop, which are visible and available once you've unlocked the corresponding Champion:
  • Gelatinous Cube Familiar
  • Feywild Ellywick Skin
  • Witchlight Delina Skin
  • Witchlight Spurt Skin
  • Wyrmspeaker Catti-brie Skin
  • Wyrmspeaker Deekin Skin
  • Pixie Riding a Corgi Familiar

Idle Champions Presents: The Trial of Mount Tiamat

We were absolutely thrilled to present the second season of Idle Champions Presents, an interactive livestream TTRPG experience. For the full recap of the adventure, check out our recap blog post. Warning this blog post contains spoilers.

New DLC Packs

New DLC Packs are now available, featuring bundles of epic skins, familiars, and other awesome stuff to help you on your adventures in the new year! Check out the Idle Champions Presents: Trials of Mount Tiamat recap blog post for more details on Ascendant Skins. Warning this blog post contains spoilers. Full details can be found in the in-game shop, but take a look at what's new in store:



Professor Orb Familiar Pack - The Professor Orb Familiar Pack includes the Professor Orb Familiar, but also 4 Epic Potions of Speed, 4 Epic Potions of Giant's Strength, 4 Epic Potions of Clairvoyance, and 1 Potion of Polish!

[REDACTED] - We have a special announcement. More into on [Redacted] coming soon!

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!

July 26th, 2021
COTLI: Sixth Anniversary Bash Celebration! 

Crusaders of the Lost Idols is turning six years old this week. It feels like we just launched yesterday. It is totally time to do another Anniversary Bash Giveaway!

We'll be giving away seven days of rewards to our players in the form of codes from our Facebook, Twitter, and Newsletter with a special BONUS reward for players who redeem all seven codes! Amazing!


Day One — Chests!

Starting Wednesday, July 28th, we'll be giving away some special goodies to Crusaders of the Lost Idols players, starting with sharing a Special Anniversary Newsletter! If you haven't signed up to the newsletter yet, you can do so here before Wednesday morning Pacific Time (UTC-7) to see the anniversary email!

Day Two — Arcane!

On Thursday, July 29th, we will be posting a code through the Crusaders of the Lost Idols Facebook page!

Day Three — Solvent!

On Friday, July 30th, we will be posting a code through the Crusaders of the Lost Idols Twitter page.

Day Four — Materialistic!

On Saturday, July 31st, we will be sharing a code through the Crusaders of the Lost Idols Facebook page!

Day Five — Challenge!

On Sunday, August 1st, we will be posting a code through the Crusaders of the Lost Idols Twitter page.

Day Six — Red!

On Monday, August 2nd, we will be sharing a code through the Crusaders of the Lost Idols Facebook page!

Day Seven — Click!

Finally, on Tuesday, August 3rd, we will be posting a code through the Crusaders of the Lost Idols Twitter page.

BONUS — Buff those Idols!

If you find and redeem all seven codes before they expire, you'll gain a seven day buff!

THANK YOU!

Thank you to the players for being awesome and for a great six years of Crusaders so far. Here's to the next round!

Update!

Here's the list of all the codes for you to redeem, if you haven't yet!
  • SIXA-WESO-MEYE-ARS! Note: exclamation mark is part of code.
  • ARCA-NEGE-ODEO-FSIX
  • SIXR-UNES-OLVE-NTS! Note: exclamation mark is part of code.
  • MMMM-SOFM-ATER-IALS
  • DCCH-ALLE-NGET-OKEN
  • SIXT-HDAY-SURP-RISE
  • SIXT-HCEL-EBRA-TION
All codes expire on Friday, August 20th, 2021 at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7.)
December 15th, 2020
Idle Champions: Years' End Festival 
Posted in Idle Champions.

The year is almost over, and we thought we'd celebrate with a Years' End Festival. Let's finish off the year with daily rewards, a day of streaming, a soft cap increase, and go up north for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Part 3.

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

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Dungeons & Dragons Years' End Festival

Years' End Festival

It's been quite the year, and it's almost over. We're rounding out 2020 for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms with themes appropriate for this time of year: Entertainment, giving, and a positive theme to end what has been a very tumultuous year for most.


Dungeons & Dragons Years' End Festival Daily Rewards

Daily Rewards

Every day during the Years' End Festival you can log in and open a new Years' End chest, but each chest is only available for 24 hours! Each chest contains four awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures.

Once you have claimed at least four daily Years' End chests, you unlock the following additional rewards!

  • Exclusive Gladiator Arkhan Skin
  • Chosen of Tiamat Feat - Increases the effect of Arkhan's Bulk Up and Usurped Power abilities by 80%
  • 5 Gold Chests

Day of Streaming

What's more, an essential part of our Years' End Festival will be our quarterly tradition with a day of streaming. From 9 AM PT to 9 PM PT on Wednesday, we'll be hosting multiple streams on our Twitch channel Twitch channel, culminating in a D&D tabletop livestream with a group of the content creators.
  • 9-10:30AM Griddle Champions Pancake Preview
  • 11AM-1PM Evergreen Champions
  • 1-3PM Mars' Guiding Hand
  • 3-4PM Idle Insights: a Dev Q&A and Year in Review
  • 4-6PM Bardic Inspiration, with special guest Ed Greenwood
  • 6-9PM Storyteller Mars Presents:Twice in a Blue Moon
  • All times Pacific



Soft Cap Increase

It's time to level up! Your adventures in Faerûn have taken you around the world of Toril, from the depths of Avernus, all the way north to Ten-Towns, This week's update for Idle Champions brings with it increases to the upgrade cap for all 70+ Champions. This newfound strength will help your formations to push further than ever before. Good luck!

Dungeons & Dragons Gem Skin Gladiator Torogar

New Gem Skins

This week's update includes the addition of two new gem skins: Gladiator Torogar and Icewind Dale Tyril! Icewind Dale Tyril, aka Moosril, was our participation prize for our Third Anniversary Celebration and is now available in the Gem Shop! Gladiator Torogar is a brand new skin, matching with Gladiator Arkhan. Check out our Gem Shop Dev Blog for full details on the Gem Shop!

Dungeons & Dragons Years' End Festival Familiars

New Familiars

New Familiars have appeared in the Shop! We've added two new Familiars to the shop: Tascha's Cauldron Familiar Pack and the Chardalyn Dragonet Familiar Pack.

The Tascha's Cauldron Familiar Pack contains Tascha's Cauldron Familiar and 2 Epic Potions each of Speed, Giant's Strength, and Clairvoyance.

The Chardalyn Dragonet Familiar Pack contains the Chardalyn Dragonet Familiar and 6 Epic Potions each of Speed, Giant's Strength, Clairvoyance, and Fire Breath and 1 Potion of Polish.

Dungeons & Dragons Third Anniversary Celebration New DLC

New DLC Packs

The Champions of Renown Year 3 All-Star Pack includes unlocks for Avren, Krull, Havilar, Melf, & Nova V'Ger if you don't already have them! Additionally, this pack includes 16 Gold Avren Chests with 2 guaranteed shiny equipment cards, 16 Gold Krull Chests with 2 guaranteed shiny equipment cards, 16 Gold Havilar Chests with 2 guaranteed shiny equipment cards, 16 Gold Melf Chests with 2 guaranteed shiny equipment cards, 16 Gold Nova Chests with 2 guaranteed shiny equipment cards, and an exclusive Mastermind Krull skin.

The Gnome Ceremorph Zorbu Skin & Feat Pack DLC arrives with the Years' End Festival! This pack unlocks for Zorbu (if you don't already have him), Gnome Ceremorph Zorbu Skin, 7 Zorbu Gold Event Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny, & the Ceremorph Hunter Feat - Increases the effect of Zorbu's Hunter's Pack ability by 80%.

Dungeons & Dragons Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Part 3

Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Part 3

This week's content update brings Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Part 3. The Champions head to Caer Konig to investigate rumors of invisible dwarves pilfering the town. Along the way, they discover a terrifying new threat to Ten-Towns!

Feedback Wanted!

These changes are scheduled to go live on December 16th at 12PM Pacific. 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!

September 16th, 2020
Idle Champions: Third Anniversary Celebration 
Posted in Idle Champions.

New Features, Content Update, and Daily Rewards, oh my! It's time for our Third 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...

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Dungeons & Dragons Third Anniversary

Third Anniversary Celebration



It's been quite the year for Idle Champions! In our third year we've rolled out quite a few features and systems, including the Patron system, Offline Progress, Modron Automation & Multi-Party Play, and reworked Time Gates! We also released two Evergreen Champions, started a new campaign, launched on Nintendo Switch, and left Early Access! Check out our Year 3 Retrospective Dev Blog for details! All that certainly deserves a celebration, right?


Dungeons & Dragons Third Anniversary Daily Rewards

Daily Rewards

Every day during the Third Anniversary Celebration you can log in and open a new Anniversary chest, but each chest is only available for 24 hours! Each chest contains four awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures.

Once you have claimed at least four daily Anniversary chests, you unlock the following additional rewards!

  • Exclusive Icewind Dale Tyril Skin
  • Exclusive Snow Click Damage
  • 5 Gold Chests

Dungeons & Dragons Third Anniversary Updates

New Features

We're thrilled to announce the debut of the New Gem Store with our Third Anniversary Celebration! This week's update includes the addition of two new gem skins, a new Evergreen Golden Epic in each patron's shop, and some new DLC. More on those below!

Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Modron Automation

Gem Store

The Gem Store is a new tab in the in-game Shop that features items you can only purchase with gems! Curious how much your next gem familiar costs? Want to see what new skins are available for Champions? Go to the Gem Store! This also includes the hugely popular community request of purchasing multiple Gold Chests with gems at once! Check out our Gem Store Dev Blog for full details!

Dungeons & Dragons Third Anniversary Celebration Familiars

New Familiars

New Familiars have appeared in the Shop! We've added five new Familiars to the shop: Arctic Fox, Wartsworth the Toad, Sylgar; the Xanathar's Goldfish, Yeti Tyke, & Hedgehog Familiar (as part of the Founder's Pack III DLC).

Dungeons & Dragons Third Anniversary Celebration New Evergreen Golden Epics

New Patron Evergreen Golden Epics

Champions who find themselves in service of Mirt the Moneylender will have access to Ulkoria Stonemarrow's Watchful Order Staff (Slot 1) Golden Epic , those in the service of Vajra Safar may access Azaka Stormfang's Volo's Guide to Chult Pullout Map (Slot 5) Golden Epic and those in the service of Strahd von Zarovich will have access to Dragonbait's Shield (Slot 2) Golden Epic through the Patron Shop.

Dungeons & Dragons Third Anniversary Celebration New DLC

New DLC Packs

New DLC Packs are now available!

The Founder's Pack III includes 42 Gold Chests, with 5 guaranteed Shiny loot cards, Exclusive Hedgehog Familiar, Exclusive Pirate Jarlaxle Skin, 5000 Gems, an Exclusive 50% Gem Buff, and an assortment of Epic potions.

Dungeons & Dragons Third Anniversary Celebration Max Dunbar Companions of the Hall Skins

The Icewind Dale Skin & Feat Pack Bundle Inspired by the art of Max Dunbar, each of the Companions of the Hall has bundled up for their next blizzard-filled trip to Ten-Towns! This Bundle will unlock Catti-brie, Regis & Wulfgar if you don't already have them, and includes Bruenor's Icewind Dale Skin & his King of Mithral Hall Feat, Catti-brie's Icewind Dale Skin & her Trained in the North Feat, Regis' Icewind Dale Skin & his Ruby Reflection Feat, Wulfgar's Icewind Dale Skin & his Dwarven Raised Feat.

The Bundle also includes 7 Gold Supply Chests, 7 Catti-brie Gold Chests, 7 Regis Gold Chests, 7 Wulfgar Gold Chest, and an assortment of Epic potions, and a Potion of Polish. Each Champion's Skin & Feat Combination may also be purchased separately.


Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Descent into Avernus, Part 6

Descent into Avernus, Part 6

This week's content update brings Descent into Avernus, Part 6. We meet Red Ruth and she sends us to Uldrak, who may have a new solution to his problems in Avernus... Check out the full Descent into Avernus, Part 6 blog post for details about the new adventures and variants.

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!