Founders' Day has arrived! Recruit the legendary monster hunter Rudolph van Richten, and rediscover Flex Champions Nahara, Strongheart, and Walnut with their fresh rebalances, available today! Complete your gothic looks with eerie new dread-domain skins and familiars released throughout the month!

Celebrations are underway to commemorate the founding of the Free City of Waterdeep. Founders Day attracts huge crowds to the Field of Triumph, where audiences watch illusory shows about Waterdeep's history and martial exhibitions by notable Champions and the renown city guard.

Festivities have also brought an ancient power from Avernus, first layer of the Nine Hells. A fallen angel has arrived to collect souls for the Blood War...

Event Updates

This update includes an exciting change to our event structure, with an expansion of featured updates for Champions. Instead of a single reworked Champion this month, THREE of this event's Champions have had targeted rebalances, pumping up their numbers to make them more effective in your formations. You'll find updates to Nahara, Strongheart, and Walnut available for flex slots now!

Featured Champions

Van Richten

Learn more about Van Richten in his Champion Spotlight.

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes the following Champions, three of which have been rebalanced:

Nahara Rebalance

• To Amuse or Avenge is an interesting speed and damage combo ability. We're happy with the speed effect, but have adjusted the damage from additive to multiplicative so that it's much more effective at boosting Nahara's damage at low stacks. We've also made it so that feats and equipment buffing this ability will affect the pre-stack value, providing more oomph if she's well-equipped.
• Strong Society is Nahara's affiliation synergy and was her featured pre-stack ability. Unfortunately, it was only buffed by a single specialization choice. To fix this, we've swapped her Ultimate Cooldown equipment over to buff this ability, which should provide for a much larger damage boost if you're running a full Black Dice Society formation with decent equipment levels.
• In addition to the above changes, we have redone Nahara's upgrades to align with his kit updates.

Strongheart Rebalance

• Justice Needs Champions is Strongheart's base buff, and has been bumped up a touch given as he's in a higher bench seat.
• Our main change to Strongheart is to adjust all three of his specialization choices to be buffed pre-stack by feats and equipment, rather than post-stack. This will be especially powerful for people who run his A Righteous Event specialization at high stacks.
• In addition to the above changes, we have redone Strongheart's upgrades to align with his kit updates.

Walnut Rebalance

• Documancer was a bit of a NOMBO for Walnut. Since you start each area with zero stacks and must kill enemies to get stacks, it is very ineffective when you reach your wall. We've opted to adjust how the stacks reset, removing only half of them when changing areas instead of resetting them. Additionally, feats and equipment that buff this ability will now apply to the pre-stack value, rather than post-stack.
• Job's Done intention was to give you a damage bonus at the start of each area so you can get that very important first Documancer stack. With the changes to Documancer, it's more of a passive buff that encourages you to hurry along. We've increased its magnitude and duration to keep it at least somewhat relevant.
• Wolfnut's temporary hit point shield was some of the only health Walnut received to tank with, so we've increased its magnitude. We've also given Walnut a health-boosting piece of equipment (replacing her Ultimate Damage equipment) and bumped up her base health a bit.
• We haven't made any changes to Contractual Obligations, since it's just a basic health share ability. The changes to Walnut's max health and equipment should, however, improve this ability's effectiveness.
• Pen-Paws was a good ability in theory, but just didn't have modern numbers. We've changed the stacking from additive to multiplicative, which gives it several orders of magnitude more impact when fully stacked, as it will definitely be when you're at or near your wall.
• The Co-Signer specialization's base effect has been doubled to provide more impact in formations with multiple "C"-Team Champions.
• The Temporary Alliance specialization has been changed from additive to multiplicative to give Walnut more synergy in unaffiliated formations.
• In addition to the above changes, we have redone Walnut's upgrades to align with his kit updates.

Event Augments

• Golden Offers: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.
• Auto-Blacksmith: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots, if they don't already have better.
  Every tier two or higher event variant completed automatically applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to the variant's Champion's equipment for free!
• Challenge Week: A Mastery Challenge will start on the third week of the event, providing opportunities to prove your formation building skills and earn unique rewards.
• Supercharged Damage Boon: The Global Damage Boon is supercharged, granting 2,000,000% additional damage per level, instead of 200% (stacking multiplicatively).

You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.

Feedback on Founders' Day

Van Richten is the latest Champion to join the ranks. What do you think about him and the rebalances to Nahara, Strongheart, and Nahara? Let us know!

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• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
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Once a mere doctor from the dread domain of Darkon, Rudolph van Richten was forced down a haunted and tragic path of revenge after losing his wife and son to the cruelty of monsters. Now, as a legendary vampire hunter, he stands undaunted against the evils that dwell within the mists. Van Richten has trained a myriad of successors to his legacy throughout the years, including fellow Champion, Ez.

Rudolph van Richten is a Support, Hunter, and Debuff Champion who has dedicated his life to fighting evil, especially the undead. Van Richten supports Champions in the column in front of him, and this support increases as more undead are defeated. Undead foes are often encountered, as his greatest enemy Strahd summons them to get in his way. Once unlocked, you can find this human cleric in Seat 10 (Tyril).

To learn everything you need to know about this cursed vampire hunter featured in the latest D&D TRPG book: Ravenloft, the Horrors Within, read on!

Van Richten

Abilities

Basic Attack

• Silver Sword Cane (melee) - Van Richten leaps out and slashes the nearest enemy with his Silver Sword Cane, dealing one hit. Deals an additional 5 seconds of BUD-based damage to Van Richten's Favored Foes.

Passive Abilities

• Hunting Strahd - As a sworn enemy of Strahd, Van Richten can be used in any Strahd Patron adventure or variant, even if he would not normally be available to be used due to variant or patron restrictions.

Formation Abilities

• Slayer Training - Van Richten increases the damage of Champions in the column in front of him by 100%.
• Beyond the Grave - When a non-Undead non-Boss enemy is killed, there is a 25% chance that Strahd will resurrect it as an Undead version of the same enemy. The enemy reappears where it died after 1 second and can drop an additional quest item or count as a second kill for quest progress when killed. Does not trigger in Boss areas.
• Triumph - Undead enemies are Van Richten's favored foe. When one of his favored foes is killed, Van Richten gains a Triumph stack. Slayer Training is increased by 20% for each Triumph stack he has, stacking multiplicatively. Triumph stacks cap at 100 and reset when a boss area is completed.
• Watched by Erasmus - If no enemies have been defeated for 3 seconds, Van Richten's ghost son Erasmus appears. Whenever Van Richten attacks, Erasmus quickly moves to the target he will attack and curses all enemies in a small area, causing all attacks against them to deal 100% more damage. This is increased by 20% for each Triumph stack Van Richten has, stacking multiplicatively. Erasmus disappears when changing areas.

Specializations A

• Occult Allies - Van Richten increases the effect of Slayer Training by 100% for each Cleric, Wizard, Sorcerer, or Warlock in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
• Scholar of Dread - Van Richten increases the effect of Slayer Training by 100% for each Champion in the formation with an Intelligence score of 14 or higher, stacking multiplicatively.
• Endless Hunt - Van Richten increases the effect of Slayer Training by 100% for each Hunter Champion and each Debuff Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Champions with both roles count twice.

Specializations B

• Occult Aid: Cure Wounds - Van Richten gains the Healing role. Every second, Van Richten heals the most damaged Champion in the formation for 20% of his own max health.
• Occult Aid: Dispel Evil - In non-boss areas, when Van Richten attacks one of his favored foes and does not defeat it, he Dismisses it to its home plane and he gains 2 Triumph stacks. Enemies dismissed in this way do not drop gold nor count toward quest progress.
• Occult Aid: Sanctuary - Van Richten casts Sanctuary on all Champions in the front column of the formation that do not have the Tanking role. Monsters prefer to attack Champions that aren't under the effect of Sanctuary first when possible.

Ultimate Ability

• Repel Evil (magic) - Van Richten repels all foes a short distance, dealing 1 ultimate hit and slowing them. Damage is greater against his favored foes.

Equipment

Feats

We Want YOUR Feedback

How do you feel about Van Richten joining the Champions?

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