We don't just love making games, we also love playing them. We look forward to Extra Life every year, but 2023 is extra special special: Codename Entertainment will be participating in our TENTH year of fundraising for BC Children's Hospital!

Welcome Back, Extra Life!

Since 2008, Extra Life has raised over $130 Million USD for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. The money raised is donated as unrestricted funds for hospitals to use as needed. And how does Codename Entertainment help raise that money? By doing what our community loves to do already: playing games together!

If you would like to learn more about Extra Life, check out their FAQ. The local member hospital that Codename Entertainment supports is BC Children's Hospital and the funds we raise are donated to BC Children's Hospital Foundation.

2023 Schedule

Starting Friday, October 20th at 9am Pacific, Codename Entertainment is excited to once again put on a 24-hour Extra Life Twitch Stream! We have a lot of content planned this year -- just check out our schedule below:

• 8:30AM — Founders Q&A
• 9:30AM — Tactile Storytelling: Making D&D Props
• 10:30AM — Goblins for Dinner
• 12:30PM — Gardening With Elisa
• 1:30PM — Battleball!
• 4:15PM — Queen By Midnight
• 6:00PM — Artomancy: Special Edition
• 7:00PM — Idle Champions Karaoke
• 8:00PM — Dad Jokes Don't Laugh Challenge
• 9:00PM — Multiplayer Beat Saber
• 10:30PM — Mario Party
• 11:30PM — CNE vs Machine
• 12:30AM — Fearwarned
• 2:30AM — Jackbox Games
• 4:30AM — Artomancy: Special Edition
• 8:00AM — Mars in the Morning
• 9:00AM — Thank-You and Goodnight!

Check out the Codename Entertainment Extra Life Page for information on how to donate!

How to Help

Along with supporting the 24-hour marathon on our Twitch Stream, we're offering these amazing in game incentives!

Bush Whacker 2

You can donate in Bush Whacker 2 by purchasing any of the three different Extra Life package deals! Net proceeds from all purchase of those packs between October 16-22nd will be donated to Extra Life! Each pack contains premium Bush Buck currency and Extra Life Elixirs which restore 100% of your max energy. Plus, pick up a laser sword in the other two packs: The Extra Life Game pack, and the Extra Life Bus pack! Find more details in-game!

Idle Champions

Idle Champions players can support Extra Life by purchasing Boom Boom the Tavernkeep Familiar between between October 16th and 22nd! All net proceeds from the first week of Boom Boom sales will be donated to Extra Life.

For more information about Boom Boom the Tavernkeep Familiar, check out the Boom Boom the Tavernkeep Familiar Blog!

We are excited to announce our collaboration with Todd Stashwick for the Boom Boom the Tavernkeep Charity Familiar! Releasing on October 16th at 9 am Pacific, all net proceeds for the first week of Boom Boom sales will be donated to Extra Life!

Boom Boom the Tavernkeep

As soon as Todd Stashwick was approached about making a charity familiar for Idle Champions he knew who he wanted to make. In real life, Boom Boom had a name before the Stashwicks even adopted him. Knowing one day they would get a new dog, they started referring to their future pet as Boom Boom. Now, Boom Boom comes to Idle Champions as a barkeep who doesn't have time for problems in his tavern! For those unfamiliar with Todd Stashwick, he is known for his numerous acting roles and star power, as well as several D&D charity games. Fans of the Black Dice Society will recognize him as Rudolph van Richten towards the end of the series.

Together our goal is to raise money for Extra Life, which is a fundraising program of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals®. Help them continue their efforts this year by purchasing Boom Boom and by visiting their site right now!

Boom Boom the Tavernkeep Familiar will be available in-game starting on Monday, October 16th, 2023 at 9 am Pacific! Afterward, all net proceeds from the first week of Boom Boom sales will be donated to Extra Life.

But That's Not All!

We're also doing our annual 24-hour livestream! Starting Friday, October 20th at 9 am Pacific we will be streaming for 24 hours straight. Come hang out in chat for some awesome shows and fun ways to donate that can affect what's happening on stream! Check out our Extra Life page for more information!

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is available on PC and Mac on Steam, Epic, the web, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS and on all Android devices!

The end of the year is a time to celebrate what we have with those that we love, and an opportunity to help others to make their year better. So we are absolutely thrilled to participate in our NINTH year of fundraising for Extra Life!

Welcome Back, Extra Life!

Extra Life is a wonderful program set up to raise donations for Children's Miracle Network hospitals. The money raised is donated as unrestricted funds for hospitals to use as needed. How do we help raise that money? By doing what our community loves to do already: play awesome games together!

If you would like to learn more about Extra Life, check out their FAQ for a wealth of information.

What's the Plan for 2022?

Starting Friday, November 18th at 9am Pacific, Codename Entertainment is excited to once again put on a 24-hour Extra Life Twitch Stream! We'll have a huge variety of shows and games, featuring our fantastic CNE staff both in front and behind the camera. Streams include:

• A Q&A with the founders of CNE!
• Many D&D games, including a return to dinner and some massive battles!
• Relaxing shows about gardening and drawing.
• Speedrunning in Dark Souls and Co-op Miami!
• Exciting slashing in Beat Saber, and building in Minecraft.
• ...AND MORE!

Check out the Codename Entertainment Extra Life Page for the full schedule as well as information on how to donate!

How Can We Help?

Along with supporting the 24-hour marathon on our Twitch Stream, we're offering some amazing in game incentives!



You can donate in Bush Whacker 2 by purchasing any of the three different Extra Life package deals! Net proceeds from all purchase of those packs between November 14-20th will be donated to Extra Life! Each pack contains premium Bush Buck currency and Extra Life Elixirs which restore 100% of your max energy. Plus, pick up a Controller sword in the other two packs: The Extra Life TV pack, and the Extra Life Fairy pack! More details will be in the in-game shop!



Everyone can help change kids health to give them a better future, even if you are A PIRATE IN SPACE! Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms players can pick up Flapjack the Pirate Flumph starting November 14th! Net proceeds from all Flapjack sales from the first week of release will be donated to Extra Life. Check the in-game shop on November 14th for details!

Spring is here and this year our Spring Extravaganza is back! This year's celebration brings a day of streaming, daily rewards, an update to the Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign, and a new Evergreen Champion unlock.

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

Table of Contents

• Spring Extravaganza
• Daily Rewards
• Days of Streaming
• Gem Shop Update
• Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Part 4
• New Evergreen Champion: Blooshi I
• New DLC
• Feedback Wanted!

Spring Extravaganza

Players who claim a daily chest on at least four days will be able to earn exclusive rewards!

Daily Rewards

Each daily chest grants you five awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures.

These rewards are unlocked once you have claimed at least four days worth of rewards during the Spring Extravaganza.

• Exclusive Prismeer Nayeli Skin
• A Rare Feat for Nayeli - Prodigal Leader increases Global DPS by 50%
• 5 Gold Chests

Days of Streaming

We have an exciting day of streaming scheduled to kick off our annual Spring Extravaganza! Tune in to our Twitch Channel for more information!

Gem Shop Update

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

• Ascendant Minsc Skin
• Ascendant Avren Skin
• Ascendant Havilar Skin
• Ascendant Freely Skin
• Ascendant Baeloth Skin
• Ascendant Shaka Skin
• Icewind Dale Asharra
• Icewind Dale Zorbu
• Solstice Shandie

Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Part 4

Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Part 4 brings our latest Evergreen Champion, Blooshi I. Blooshi I can be unlocked by completing Bully for You! the second variant for The Fairy Rings of Thither adventure.

New Evergreen Champion: Blooshi I

Blooshi is a Support and Tank Champion who hails from the Soggy Court in Prismeer. She enjoys taunting her enemies, and when she becomes overwhelmed relies on the power of her undead patron to return as a spirit and a formidable tank. Once unlocked you can add her to your formation by swapping her out with Celeste (Slot 2).

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

New DLC Packs

Four new DLC Packs are now available!

The Polymorphed Yorven Skin & Feat Pack includes an unlock for Yorven, the new Polymorphed Yorven Skin, Yorven's Furry Fury Feat, and 7 Gold Yorven Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.

The Polymorphed Minsc Skin & Feat Pack includes the new Polymorphed Minsc Skin, Minsc's Prodigal Leader Feat, and 7 Supply Chests with 1 Potion of Polish.

The Prismeer Sentry Skin & Feat Pack includes an unlock for Sentry, the new Prismeer Sentry Skin, Sentry's Prodigal Leader Feat, and 7 Gold Sentry Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.

The Prismeer Shandie Theme Pack includes an unlock for Shandie, the new Prismeer Shandie Skin, Shandie's Prodigal Leader Feat, and 7 Gold Shandie Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.

Feedback Wanted!

These changes are scheduled to go live at approximately 12:00PM PDT on Wednesday, March 23rd. 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!

Enjoy :)

To all of you who donated to our Extra Life campaign this year: Thank you. It was a both fun and exhausting, but above all Codename Entertainment raised over $24k USD to help sick and injured kids.

Of that, the Bush Whacker 2 team was able to raise over $1700 USD! We had four goals that each unlocked a corresponding coupon code, and your generous donations have unlocked all four! Redeem them before February 1st, 2021:

Goal	Code	Effect
$200	EXTR-ALIF-E021-0200	1 Cake, which restores 75% of your maximum energy!
$500	EXTR-ALIF-E021-0500	1 Pristine Feed Voucher!
$1000	EXTR-ALIF-E021-1000	1 Unique DNA!
$1500	EXTR-ALIF-E021-1500	50 Bush Bucks

Welcome Back, Extra Life!

It's hard to believe that it's that time of the year again with how this year has flown by, but it's already time for Codename Entertainment Extra Life 2021! We're excited to bring back our day of streaming after a year of hiatus! We are also absolutely thrilled to say that this is our eighth year fundraising for Extra Life!

For those who may not know, Extra Life is a wonderful program set up to raise donations for Children's Miracle Network hospitals. The money raised is donated as unrestricted funds for hospitals to use as needed. But the best part? We can help by doing what we love to do: gaming!

For more information about the Extra Life program, check out their FAQ.

What's the Plan for 2021?

Last year we had to cancel our in-person ExtraLife festivities at the very last minute due to changing COVID restrictions. However, we were thrilled that we still managed to raise over $20,000 CAD for BC Children's Hospital in 2020.

We're hoping to do better in 2021!

This year we are delighted to bring back our 24-hour ExtraLife Stream. Starting at 9 AM Pacific Time (PT) on Friday, November 19th until 9 AM PT on Saturday, November 20th, we are excited to offer a jam-packed schedule of game programming. We've got shows based on Dungeons & Dragons, Dark Souls Speedruns, Beat Saber, Dalgona Challenge, Phasmaphobia, and much more. We will have both virtual and CNE HQ-based streams, and you can check out our full streaming schedule on the Codename Entertainment Extra Life Page. You can also donate in-game by purchasing our Extra Life 2021 DLC packs, or directly through the Extra Life pages for any of our currently-supported games. Check out the individual game pages for more details!


Bush Whacker 2

Extra Life DLC: Extra Life Charity Pack, the Extra Life PC Pack, and the Extra Life Kitty Pack.


Crusaders of the Lost Idols

Extra Life DLC: Dr. Theo Taskmaster Pack


Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

Extra Life DLC: Star the Displacer Beast Kitten Familiar Pack


Also, you can check out the Codename Entertainment Extra Life page here.

Spring is here and this year our Spring Extravaganza is back! This year's celebration brings a day of streaming, daily rewards, the conclusion of our Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus campaign, a new Evergreen Champion unlock, a new Patron, and the third modron core and ability to field a third party, oh my!

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

Table of Contents

• Spring Extravaganza
• Daily Rewards
• Bardic Inspiration
• New Modron Core
• New Patron: Zariel
• New Patron Items
• New Evergreen Champion: Reya Mantlemorn
• New DLC
• Descent into Avernus, Part 10
• Feedback Wanted!

Spring Extravaganza

Players who claim rewards on at least four days will be able to earn exclusive rewards!

Daily Rewards

Each daily chest grants you four awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures.

These rewards are unlocked once you have claimed at least four days worth of rewards during the Spring Extravaganza.

• Exclusive "Celestial Celeste" Skin
• 5 Modron Chests
• 5 Gold Chests

Bardic Inspiration

Today's update includes a New Soundtrack! Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 features eight original songs composed by Jason Charles Miller and Dylan Wilks during the first twenty episodes of Bardic Inspiration, which were recorded at Central Command Studios in Los Angeles over the winter.

All 16 tracks (the eight original tracks and their instrumental versions) are coming to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms! Players have been asking us to expand the soundtrack for Idle Champions for years; starting today, players will be able to select their favorite Bardic Inspiration tracks from Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 to play during their adventures with the new in-game music player. Once the update launches, look for the button with the musical note in the main UI.

Bardic Inspiration is also available as a DLC on Steam! Collect your own Studio-quality MP3 & FLAC files through the Bardic Inspiration Vol. 1 Steam store page!



For more information about Bardic Inspiration Vol 1 including the tracklist, check out our Bardic Inspiration Vol 1 blog post

Third Modron Core: Speed

Our third modron core, the Speed Core, and the ability to field a third party are now available!

The Speed Core will be unlocked upon completing Split the Party 2 at no gem cost. Due to technical limitations, the Speed Core will appear in the modron shop for some platforms, this will be patched out shortly!

Everyone will be able to unlock the Speed Core with the Split the Party 2 special adventure!

New Patron: Zariel

Another Patron has arrived! Zariel joins Mirt the Moneylender, The Blackstaff, Vajra Safahr, and Count Strahd von Zarovich as the fourth Patron in Idle Champions. Those seeking to serve the Zariel will need to unlock at least 50 Champions (including Core and Evergreen Champions) and complete the Elturel's Last Stand adventure in the Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus campaign. Once these criteria are met, players can spend 5000 Gems and 20 Silver Chests to unlock Zariel as a Patron!

Zariel demands Strength and Charisma from her followers. With Zariel as your Patron, only Champions with an STR score of 10+ AND a CHA score of 13+ can be used.

New Patron Items

With a new Patron comes a new Patron Shop where players can collect items using Zariel Patron currency!

The Baby Couatl Familiar, Couatls are benevolent serpentine beings of great intellect and insight, and this young one is happy to help you as your newest patron currency familiar.

The Celestial Bruenor Skin explores the possibility of what if Bruenor took up the Sword of Zariel instead of Reya? Leader of Clan Battlehammer and King of Mithral Hall, Bruenor understands commitment and service to his people. The Sword of Zariel recognizes his noble qualities.

The Hellrider Reya Skin Reya arrived in Elturel to train as a Hellrider at the age of twelve, years later, Reya raised the Sword of Zariel above her head and saved her city. This skin shows off her Hellrider uniform.

New Evergreen: Reya Mantlemorn

Today's update brings our latest Evergreen Champion, Reya Mantlemorn who can be unlocked by completing Reya Reborn the second variant for the Idyllglen adventure.

Reya powers up Champions adjacent to her with her Searing Radiance. You can power up that ability by increasing Champions who are Lawful and/or Good in the formation. When you want to add Reya to your formation, you can swap her with Asharra (Slot 6).

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

New DLC Packs

Three new DLC Packs are now available!

The Celestial Tyril Skin Pack unlocks the Celestial Tyril Skin, 7 Gold Chests, and 20,000 Symbols of Zariel. This pack is available in the Zariel Patron Shop.

The Bubbles the Hollyphant Familiar Pack will unlock the Bubbles the Hollyphant Familiar and two each of epic potions of Speed, Clairvoyance, and Giant's Strength.

The Cinnamon, the Red Panda Familiar Pack will unlock the Cinnamon, the Red Panda Familiar, six each of epic potions of Speed, Clairvoyance, and Giant's Strength, Fire Breath, and a Potion of Polish.

Descent into Avernus, Part 10

Now it's time to enact our plan to save Elturel! Some things go right, some things go wrong. One thing goes REALLY wrong and will have drastic repercussions for the future of FaerÈ—n and Idle Champions. Check out the full Descent into Avernus, Part 10 blog post for details about the new adventures and variants.

Feedback Wanted!

These changes are scheduled to go live at approximately 12:00PM PDT on Wednesday, March 31st. 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!

Enjoy :)

Announcing: Bardic Inspiration Vol.1

It's been incredibly difficult to contain our excitement these last few weeks!

It might not seem like it, but Bardic Inspiration has been around since last summer, with our first episode about Bruenor Battlehammer back in June 2020. If you had told us nine months ago that we would eventually record some of these songs in a studio and release them to the public, we wouldn't have believed you!

Allow us to finally and officially announce that Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 arrives with the Spring Extravaganza on Wednesday, March 31st as DLC on Steam!



Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 features eight original songs composed by Jason Charles Miller and Dylan Wilks during the first twenty episodes of Bardic Inspiration, which were recorded at Central Command Studios in Los Angeles over the winter.

Starting with "The Greatest Dwarven King," the anthem for Bruenor Battlehammer written during the very first episode, Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 includes a diverse selection of musical genres, including classic rock, goth/alternative, punk, country, heavy metal, swing, folk, and even a pop song for Tiamat, Queen of Evil Dragonkind. In addition to these eight studio-quality songs, there are also eight corresponding Instrumental versions for those who prefer their music without vocals. The full tracklist and production credits are below.

And that's not all: all 16 tracks are coming to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms! Players have been asking us to expand the soundtrack for Idle Champions for years; starting on March 31, players will be able to select their favorite Bardic Inspiration tracks from Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 to play during their adventures with the new in-game music player.

Anyone interested in hearing studio-quality recordings of the songs will be able to purchase the Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 DLC through the Idle Champions Steam Store page as of March 31 and download MP3s and FLAC files of each track. Everyone else will be able to listen to the soundtrack for free in-game. Of course, we encourage you to purchase the DLC; if we can sell enough of them, this kind of project might be able to happen again ;)

Disk 1	Disk 2
The Greatest Dwarven King	The Greatest Dwarven King (Instrumental)
Drop of Time	Drop of Time (Instrumental)
Brimstone Angels Go Go Go	Brimstone Angels Go Go Go (Instrumental)
Deekin's Tale of Doom	Deekin's Tale of Doom (Instrumental)
Savage Fire	Savage Fire (Instrumental)
The Viper's Fangs	The Viper's Fangs(Instrumental)
The Moneylender, Mirt	The Moneylender, Mirt (Instrumental)
You Could Be My Dragon Queen	You Could Be My Dragon Queen (Instrumental)

Bardic Inspiration Vol 1 Credits

• The Greatest Dwarven King
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Gary Joseph Potter Jr. – Lead guitar
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• Drop of Time
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming, keyboards
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• Brimstone Angels Go Go Go
  Kenley Shea – Vocals Jason Charles Miller – Guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Erin M. Evans – Additional Composition
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• Deekin’s Tale of Doom
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Adam Hall – Dobro
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• Savage Fire
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Gary Joseph Potter Jr. – Lead guitar
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• The Viper’s Fangs
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Gary Joseph Potter Jr. – Lead guitar
  Vivid Vivka – Additional Composition
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• The Moneylender, Mirt
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar
  Aubrey Richmond– Fiddle
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• You Could Be My Dragon Queen
  Kenley Shea – Vocals
  Jason Charles Miller – Guitar, bass, percussion, keyboards
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas

This album exists thanks in large part to the audience of Bardic Inspiration, who accompanied Jason and Dylan on this songwriting journey. Thank you all so much. We hope to do this again! You can catch Bardic Inspiration live on Tuesday from 1-3 PM Pacific on our Twitch Channel.

Extra Life Fundraiser Success!

To all of you who donated to our Extra Life campaign: Thank you. Thanks to your generosity we've managed to raise over $18,000 CAD to help sick and injured kids.

Of that, the Bush Whacker 2 team was able to raise over $1,300 CAD! We had four goals that each unlocked a corresponding coupon code, and your generous donations have unlocked 3 of them! Redeem them before February 1st, 2021:

Goal	Code	Effect
$200	EXTR-ALIF-E020-0200	1 Cake, which restores 75% of your maximum energy!
$500	EXTR-ALIF-E020-0500	1 Pristine Feed Voucher!
$1000	EXTR-ALIF-E020-1000	1 Unique DNA!
$1500	Locked	50 Bush Bucks

Live Stream Cancelled :(

We are cancelling the Codename Entertainment 24-hour Extra Life 2020 live stream due to new pandemic restrictions in British Columbia through early January. While we are sad to make this announcement, we are happy to do our part to help in the fight against COVID-19.

Read the CNE blog post for more details

Codename's Extra Life Streams are Cancelled

We are cancelling the Codename Entertainment 24-hour Extra Life 2020 live stream due to new pandemic restrictions in British Columbia through early January.

While we are sad to make this announcement, we are happy to do our part to help in the fight against COVID-19.

But Here's the Good News!

Additionally, we have some good news to report: Thanks to your collective generosity across all our games, we have raised over $18,000 CAD for BC Children's Hospital Foundation!

Extra Life is one of the highlights for us every year, and despite everything that has happened in 2020 this year is no different. We are always happy to support a great cause.

From all of us at Codename Entertainment, THANK YOU for helping make the world a better place -- we'll see you in 2021!