It’s considered lucky to possess and examine a map on Wintershield, so put on your most durable boots and head out into the streets of Waterdeep to claim one for yourself in this new limited time event.

Complete the adventure and you'll recruit the stout gold dwarf cleric, Barrowin Undurr, who has some unique buffing mechanics and shares a seat with Tyril. This event will run until January 8th, 2018 at noon PST. Good luck!

New Champion: Barrowin Undurr

A proud daughter of Clan Undurr and a devout follower of Gorm Gulthyn, the dwarven god of vigilance and duty. She spent fifteen years in the city of Ironmaster, in Icewind Dale, overseeing and protecting her family’s investment in the city’s lucrative mining operations. However, she saw little action and feared that her talents were being squandered. She has recently found a home within a budding organization called the Order of the Gauntlet, which vigilantly guards against the rise of evil in all its forms.

When you want to add Barrowin Undurr to your party, you can swap her with Tyril.

Wintershield Variants

• The Chatty Map — The map is extremely chatty. Every 15 seconds it engages in deep conversation with a random Champion in your formation, disabling their DPS and Formation Abilities for 15 seconds.


• The Cult of Daggers — Dagger-throwing Cultists spawn alongside normal waves and toss daggers at random Champions in your formation. These additional monsters drop no gold.


• Only the Strong Survive — Only Champions with a Strength stat of 13 or higher can be used. This includes base Champions Bruenor, Celeste, Nayeli, Minsc, Tyril, Jamilah, and Arkhan, and event Champions Gromma, Krond, and Barrowin Undurr.

Features:

• Added the Wintershield event, our fifth limited-time campaign event! The event will run until Monday, January 8th at noon PST.
• Added a new Champion: Barrowin Undurr, the Gold Dwarf Cleric.
• Added a new event Divine Favor: Oghma's Favor.

See the in-game FAQ for more information!

We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday! Enjoy these special buffs for Jarlaxle, Asharra, and Dhadius this weekend! Maybe you can use them to power through the new Grand Tour adventures and recruit Drizzt!



The following Champions will get a buff this weekend starting from today until Noon PST on Monday, December 25th.

• Jarlaxle – Increases the damage of Jarlaxle by 400%


• Asharra – Increases the effect of Asharra's Bond: Humans, Bond: Elves and Dwarves, and Bond: Tiefling, Firbolg, and Dragonborn abilities by 200%


• Dhadius – Increases the effect of Dhadius' Skill Empowerment ability by 200%

Check out these limited-time Gold Snowy Chests that contain equipment for just the champions above!

(Note: gear only appears for unlocked Champions. If you do not have Dhadius unlocked, his gear will not appear in the chests)

Your time at the Wayside Inn has been fruitful: You've earned the favor of Torm, helped a were-beast find true love, and saved countless villagers from an undead invasion. Now it's time to head south to the grand city of Waterdeep, where you were supposed to meet a certain drow ranger months ago...

Three new adventures are now available in the Grand Tour of the Sword Coast campaign. If you're skilled enough to beat the third one and its variant, you'll recruit Drizzt Do'Urden to join your party. You'll need every bit of optimization you can bring to your formation to recruit the famous drow ranger — good luck!

New Champion: Drizzt Do'Urden

Despite his increasing fame (or infamy) across the Sword Coast North as a drow who dwells on the surface, is deadly in battle, fights with great agility and two enchanted scimitars, and can call on an onyx panther figurine of wondrous power to bring a battle companion to his side, Drizzt Do’Urden remains an enigma.

Thoughtful and sensitive to others, Drizzt holds himself to the highest ideals but does not expect the same of others. Ever alert for treachery and danger, he speaks little but is apt to be polite (if terse) in his dealings. A perfectionist who yearns to be accepted into places and groups and to make friends widely, Drizzt is haunted by the danger he brings to those he befriends thanks to the scrutiny of Lolth and his other foes (notably the demon Errtu and the human Artemis Entreri). Those he meets see his manner as grim.

You must complete the first variant of the Underdeep Cartography adventure before you can add him to your formation.

When you want to add Drizzt to your party, you can swap him with Makos.

New Adventures

• Escort to Waterdeep — The party takes its leave of the Inn and proceeds west and south to the port city of Waterdeep to meet Drizzt. They haven't made it two steps before running into a caravan in need of an escort.


• Waterdeep Detours — You have arrived at the Gates of Waterdeep, Drizzt's designated meeting place is a small tavern in the Dock Ward. Little do you know your journey there will have as many detours as the city has wards.


• Underdeep Cartography — Drizzt has been mapping the tunnels, crypts, and sewers under Waterdeep. Rumours of dangerous monsters escaping from the Undermountain suggest something may have broken through into the normal tunnels and sewers under Waterdeep. Follow the clues left by Drizzt and find the opening.

Features:

• Added a new Champion: Drizzt Do'Urden, the Drow Ranger. You must complete the first variant of the Underdeep Cartography adventure before you can add him to your formation.
• Added three new adventures to the Grand Tour of the Sword Coast campaign.

See the in-game FAQ for more information!

Twitch Plays Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms Launched Today

VICTORIA, BC – December 14, 2017 - Codename Entertainment is proud to announce the launch of Twitch Plays Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms. Now players can combine their idle clicker expertise and play the highly-rated PC game together with thousands of other members of the community 24 hours a day.

Twitch Plays Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms enables fans to play collaboratively, entering commands, and voting on significant actions in real-time. The options include choosing the formation strategy of the party, when to use Ultimate Attacks, and even when to reset and start a new adventure.

Twitch Plays Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is available to play right now on its own dedicated Twitch channel (www.twitch.tv/twitchplaysidlechampions) plus it will be featured regularly on the official Dungeons & Dragons Twitch channel (www.twitch.tv/dnd).

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is an official free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons-based clicker game. Assemble a party of Champions and master the art of Formation Strategy. Upgrade your heroes, collect unique gear, and unlock new Champions in regular new events.

Go to www.IdleChampions.com for further information on the game and search for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms on Steam.

About Idle Champions

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, the world's first idle clicker game set in the celebrated universe of the Forgotten Realms. The game is indie studio Codename Entertainment's first licensed video game in partnership with Dungeons & Dragons. The game has appeared consistently in the Top 100 games by concurrent player count since launch: store.steampowered.com/stats

About Codename Entertainment

Codename Entertainment Inc. is the award-winning indie video game studio based in Victoria, British Columbia. The studio's previous game, Crusaders of the Lost Idols, has remained popular since launching in 2015. It has stayed in the Top 1% of games by concurrent player count on Steam. It's also one of the Most Played games out of more 113,000 on Kongregate.com, and it is consistently ranked in the Most Popular Games on Armorgames.com.

About Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS), is the leader in entertaining the lifestyle gamer. Wizards' players and fans are members of a global community bound together by their love of both digital gaming and in-person play. The company brings to market a range of gaming experiences under powerful brand names such as Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. For more information about our world renowned brands, visit the Wizards of the Coast Web site at www.wizards.com

The characters Arkhan and Chango are trademarks of 3:59, Inc. and are used with permission. © 2017 3:59, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Press Contact

Clive Gorman
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Simril is ruined! Someone or something has been pillaging all the food stores of Luskan, leaving very little leftover for the feast of Simril, let alone the long, cold winter to follow. Your party has been hired to hunt down this ruiner-of-holidays and recover the stolen sustenance.

Celebrate Faerûn's winter solstice with the latest Idle Champions event, Simril! This limited-time adventure runs from today until Noon PST on Monday, December 18th 2017, and introduces Dhadius the Scarlet, the Human Wizard!

New Champion: Dhadius the Scarlet!

Dhadius is a mage of legendary status and acclaim (at least, in his own mind), who sees everyone else as intellectual worms. Being an egomaniac, he seeks out esoteric lore and rare magical secrets so he may know things that the 'common fools' do not.

Dhadius hails from Luskan in the north, where he is a member of the Arcane Brotherhood, an infamous group of wizards. He joined them only recently and hasn't been taken as seriously by the others as he thinks he should be. He's determined to let is be known far and wide that he is a wizard to be respected and feared.

When you want to add Dhadius to your party, you can swap him with Calliope.

Simril Variants

• Frightful Weather — In areas where it is snowing, your party will take 1.7% of their max health as unavoidable damage every second.


• Light in the Darkness — Several slots in the formation are taken up by floating magical torches.


• A Wise Endeavour — Only champions with a wisdom score of 13 or more may be used.

Features:

• Added the Simril event, our fourth limited-time campaign event! The event will run until Monday, December 18th at noon PST.
• Added a new Champion: Dhadius the Scarlet, the Human Wizard.
• Added a new event Divine Favor: Shar's Favor.
• Champion ultimate abilities now usable with numeric keypad.
• The game is now compatible with Razer hardware – let there be lights!
• You can now minimize the top UI using a button added to the left of the top left menu – bird hunters rejoice!

See the in-game FAQ for more information!