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July 14th, 2021
Idle Champions: Summer Spectacular 2021 
Posted in Idle Champions.

Red Pandas, New Variants, and Daily Rewards, oh my! It's time for our Summer Spectacular!

Join us and celebrate our Summer Spectacular featuring the beloved Red Pandas from Idle Champions Presents: A Fool's Errand, Daily Rewards, New Variants, and a Day of Streaming!

Read on for more information about the latest variants, rewards, and DLC, and don't forget to tune in to our Twitch Channel from 9AM-7PM Pacific for a full day of streams! Celebrate with us and collect your own Red Panda Briv Skin! In case you missed it, use the code: REDP-ANDA-WEEK to collect your own Red Panda Briv Skin! Code expires at 9AM PT Wednesday, July 21st.

Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Red Panda Briv

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Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular

Summer Spectacular

Today we're starting our Summer Spectacular: seven days of rewards celebrating the Red Pandas from Idle Champions Presents: A Fool's Errand! Today's update also includes 10 new Variants across our campaigns, including the final variant for the Tomb of Annihilation campaign.

Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Daily Rewards

Daily Rewards

Every day during the Summer Spectacular you can log in and open a new Summer 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 Summer Chests, you unlock the following additional rewards!

  • Freely Champion Unlock
  • Exclusive Red Panda Freely Skin
  • 5 Gold Chests

Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Red Panda Freely

New Variants

Today's update introduces ten new variants spread across all of our campaigns: Grand Tour of the Sword Coast, Tomb of Annihilation, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, and Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. You will need to have completed the original adventures in order to unlock these variants. Three of the new variants have unique rewards:
  • The Spirit of the Trickster Gods variant in the Tomb of Annihilation campaign marks our final Tomb of Annihilation variant and rewards 5 Modron Component Chests on completion.
  • The Path of Trials variant in the Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus campaign is easier if you have Alyndra in your formation, and it rewards the Red Panda Alyndra skin on completion.
    • Note: If you haven't unlocked Alyndra you can still complete the variant and gain the skin. When you unlock her in the future you'll have access to the skin.
  • The Frozen in Fear variant in the Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign is easier if you have Havilar in your formation, and it rewards the Red Panda Havilar skin on completion.
    • Note: If you haven't unlocked Havilar you can still complete the variant and gain the skin. When you unlock her in the future you'll have access to the skin.


Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Grand Tour of the Sword Coast Variants

Grand Tour of the Sword Coast

  • The Prison of Velkynvelve: Prisoners of Unknown Choices
  • You awake in the underdark, cursed by choices made by an unseen foe!
    • Two of the slots in your formation are cursed due to the choices made by some massively powerful unseen force!
    • The cursed slots change every 15 seconds by moving to a random adjacent slot. Champions in cursed slots can not attack and all their upgrades are disabled.
    • Reach area 400.

  • Lost in the Underdark: Visions of Hornfirth
  • Find your way to Sloobludop with Bubbles by your side!
    • Bubbles has created an illusion of Ogres to remind us of our trip to Hornfirth. How kind!
    • Bubbles the Hollyphant joins the formation.
    • Each wave has a 50% chance of spawning 1 or 2 Ogre Battering Rams.
    • Enemies have their damage and movement speed increased by 100% for each Ogre Battering Ram on screen (additive).Ogres do not drop gold, nor do they count towards quest progress.
    • Only Champions with CON of 14 or higher can be used.
    • Reach area 400.


Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Tomb of Annihilation

Tomb of Annihilation Variants

  • The Guardian of Orolunga: Red Wizard 'Escort'
  • Help Artus find clues with a friend from the future.
    • Bubbles brought us a friend from the future! Wait, is that right?
    • Rath Modar, the infamous Red Wizard, joins the formation to learn of the fall of his Red Wizards in Chult. Don't worry, Bubbles vouched for him.
    • 2 additional Red Wizards spawn with each wave. All Red Wizards each have 4 additional armored HP that must be cleared before they can be destroyed.
    • Only Champions with INT of 12 or lower can be used.
    • Reach area 350.

  • The Lost Love: Spirit of the Trickster Gods
  • Race Valindra to Mezro with the 9 Trickster Gods by your side!
    • Bubbles joins the formation (slot 4) and brings the spirit of the trickster gods with her! That's good, right?!
    • Various trickster gods affect the formation throughout the adventure, granting a boon or a bane to the formation. The trickster god rotates every 5 areas
      • I'jin - The Champions in the second column of the formation have their normal attack cooldown increased by 2 seconds.
      • Kubazan - Champions deal 100% additional damage.
      • Moa - Good Champions deal 400% additional damage.
      • Nangnang - Enemies drop 99% less gold.
      • Obo'laka - The Champions in the third column of the formation deal no damage.
      • Papazotl - Enemies move 200% faster and deal 100% additional damage.
      • Shagambi - Evil Champions deal no damage.
      • Unkh - Neutral Champions deal no damage.
      • Wongo - When a non-boss enemy is killed, it respawns after 5 seconds.
    • Reach area 400.
    • Rewards 5 Modron Component Chests


Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Waterdeep Dragon Heist

Waterdeep: Dragon Heist Variants

  • Building Trust: The Newcomers of Notoriety
  • Escort a mysterious noble while Baeloth summons some fancy friends to entertain us!
    • Baeloth thought it would be fun to split the party, allowing the newcomers to enjoy his illusions! You can only use Event Champions in this adventure. No core or Evergreen Champions allowed.
    • Fancy red pandas in top hats riding unicycles attack with each wave of enemies. They drop no gold, nor do they count towards quest progress.
    • The fancy red pandas deal 400% additional damage. Watch out!
    • Reach area 200.

  • The Dinner Party: Thine Bounty is Mine!
  • Protect the hidden Lords of Waterdeep while protecting your panda from a pirate!
    • Cinnamon the red panda joins the formation.
    • A drunken sailor is convinced that Cinnamon is the perfect pet for her ship, and she must have them!
    • The sailor boss spawns in every area after 10 enemies with one of four special abilities: spawns normally but moves quickly, spawns with hits-based health, spawns with armor-based health, or spawns riding a cannon that one-shots your champions.
    • If Briv is in your formation, Champions' normal attack cooldowns are decreased by .5 seconds.
    • Reach area 225.


Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Baldur's Gate Descent into Avernus

Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

  • The Path of Dreams: The Path of Trials
  • Follow Lulu's dreams while Tiamat's chromatic dragons slow your progress!
    • Only Champions with WIS 14 or higher can be used.
    • In each boss area, a random young chromatic Dragon appears with the normal area boss. The additional boss must also be defeated to progress.
    • If Alyndra is in your formation, the Dragon spawns with half health.
    • Reach area 400
    • Rewards Red Panda Alyndra Skin


Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Red Panda Alyndra
  • The Lost Hollyphant: Best Friend Search Squad!
  • Follow Lulu's cries across Avernus with a distracting Bubbles and Cinnamon at your side!
    • Bubbles & Cinnamon have formed a search party for Lulu, joining the formation for this adventure.
    • Enemies drop 99% less gold.
    • Only Champions with CHA of 13 or lower can be used.
    • Reach area 425.

    Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Icewind Dale Rime of the Frostmaiden

    Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

    • Dwarven Rumors: Frozen in Fear
    • Explore a rumor about invisible dwarves, while dealing with vampire gnolls!
      • Each area, gnoll vampires appear from the Rime (1 in each wave). They drop no gold, nor do they count towards quest progress.
      • Whenever a gnoll vampire deals damage to a Champion, that Champion is stunned for 2 seconds.
      • All Champions' normal attack cooldown is increased by 1 second, unless Havilar is in your formation.
      • Reach area 350.
      • Rewards Red Panda Havilar Skin


    Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Red Panda Havilar
    • Sunblight: Hats Off to You
    • Learn what you can while fancy red pandas attempt to 'entertain' you.
      • Baeloth and his illusory fancy red pandas are back!
      • Fancy red pandas in top hats riding unicycles attack with each wave of enemies. They drop no gold, nor do they count towards quest progress.
      • While these distracting red pandas are on screen, all enemies deal 200% additional damage.
      • Only Champions with DEX of 14 or higher can be used.
      • Reach area 375.

    New DLC Packs

    At the launch of the Summer Spectacular at Noon Pacific, two new DLC Packs will become available, and 4 of our existing DLC packs will be updated with Red Panda bonuses!

    Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular New DLC The Red Panda Orisha Skin & Feat Pack unlocks the Red Panda Orisha Skin, Orisha’s Wings of Tails Epic Feat, and 7 Gold Orisha Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card. It will also unlock the Orisha Champion if you don't already have her.


    Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular New DLC The Red Panda Baeloth Theme Pack unlocks the Red Panda Baeloth Skin, Baeloth's Red Panda Djinni Epic Feat, the Fancy Red Panda Familiar, 1 Epic Potion of the Gold Hunter, and 16 Gold Baeloth Chests with 2 Shiny Equipment Cards. It will also unlock the Baeloth the Entertainer Champion if you don't already have him.


    Dungeons & Dragons Summer Spectacular Red Panda Familiars The Red Panda Familiars: With the launch of the Summer Spectacular, we've updated the following DLC packs to include a red panda skin for the familiar associated with the pack! If you already own the DLC, reload your game when the Summer Spectacular launches and you'll gain access to the familiar skin automatically!
    • Bubbles the Hollyphant Familiar Pack
    • Zoonie the Hell Hound Pup Familiar Pack
    • Pirate Briv & Phlo Theme Pack
    • Pirate Alyndra & Griff Theme Pack

    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!