"Did you hear what happened at the Wayside Inn?"
"No -- what happened?"
"While everyone was partying at Liars' Night they got robbed."
"Seriously!? Who robs a party?"
"It was 'A Masked Man', apparently."
"What a jerk. I hope they catch him."

The local Liars' Night festivities at the Wayside Inn were interrupted by a masked thief! They stole magical items and escaped, and now it's up to the Champions to stop them!

Liars' Night 7 introduces Thellora, the Centaur Paladin featured in Idle Champions Presents: Fatebreaker! This event also brings back Kent, the Tiefling Rogue from Rivals of Waterdeep, as well as Brig Hellclaw, the Rogue/Bard played by Jason Charles Miller! Players have until Monday, October 30th at 12 PM Pacific to complete their Liars' Night 7 unlocks and objectives.

New Champion: Thellora

Thellora belongs to an all-female regiment known as the Luma. These fifty-three centaurs are diverse, but unified in that each possesses a distinctive golden right eye. The centaurs believe these individuals are chosen by their god, Callessa, to be devoted guardians and trained warriors. With their divine connection and martial prowess, they protect their land, embracing their unique gifts with unwavering dedication.

Thellora is a Support, Tanking, and Speed Champion who will charge her way through your next adventure! She boosts the damage of champions behind her and bolsters their health like a true tank, and these boosts increase when she is unable to finish off her foe. The choice you make with which feats you assign is particularly important, as her feats also affect her adjacent allies! Once unlocked, she takes her place in Slot 1 next to Bruenor.

For more detailed information on Thellora, check out her Champion Spotlight!

Year Seven Variants

By the Light of Tura! - Chase down a masked man who has performed a daring heist with Thellora!

• Thellora starts in the formation. (Slot 1) She can't be moved or removed.
• Only Thellora and Champions in the column behind her can deal damage.
• Getting to know Thellora: Thellora increases the damage of Champions in the column behind her.
• Reach Area 75.

Allies of the Sky Cents - Chase down a masked man who has performed a daring heist with Thellora's favorite companions.

• Thellora starts in the formation. (Slot 1) She can't be moved or removed.
• You may only use Champions with a STR of 12 or less, Female/Non-Binary Champions, or Speed champions.
• Getting to know Thellora: Thellora's specialization gives a secondary boost to certain types of Champions. Choose the best option for your formation!
• Reach Area 125.

No One Trick Pony - Chase down a masked man who has performed a daring heist while fighting extra reinforcements!

• Thellora starts in the formation. (Slot 1) She can't be moved or removed.
• For the first ten areas, non-boss quest requirements are multiplied by 10!
• With every non-boss enemy wave, a Fire Elemental spawns with 10 armored hit points. This enemy does not drop gold or count toward quest progress.
• Getting to know Thellora: Thellora has the ability to rush through early areas if you've charged her up in previous runs. Get her Rush stacks to 10 and your favor for the event above 10 billion (1e10) and leap through these difficult areas!
• Reach Area 175.

We would love to hear about your experiences in Idle Champions on the Idle Champions Subreddit, on the Steam forums, or on the Official Idle Champions Discord!

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!

"May the mountains hide you so only light may find you."

When the ground rumbles and dangers threaten the peace, The Luma are always ready to face whatever menace has arisen. Thellora is a member of this esteemed regiment, motivated to lead her fellow centaurs into protecting the community. No evil can outrun her, or her sword!

I. Thellora

Thellora belongs to an all-female regiment known as the Luma. These fifty-three centaurs are diverse, but unified in that each possess a distinctive golden right eye. The centaurs believe these individuals are chosen by their god, Callessa, to be devoted guardians and trained warriors. With their divine connection and martial prowess, they protect their land, embracing their unique gifts with unwavering dedication.

Thellora is a Support, Tanking, and Speed Champion who will charge her way through your next adventure! She boosts the damage of champions behind her and bolsters their health like a true tank, and these boosts increase when she is unable to finish off her foe. The choice you make with which feats you assign is particularly important, as her feats also affect her adjacent allies! Once unlocked, she takes her place in Slot 1 next to Bruenor.

II. Thellora's Stats

Race: Centaur	Alignment:Lawful Neutral
Gender: Female	Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 27	Affiliation: None	Class: Paladin

STR: 16	DEX: 12	CON: 13
INT: 11	WIS: 8	CHA: 17

Role: Support, Tanking, Speed

Eligible for Patrons: Vajra (with Feat), Zariel

Slot: 1 (Bruenor)

III. Thellora's Design

After a successful run on A Familiar Quest Series 3 playing Misty the Will-O'Wisp, we were thrilled to bring Alicia Marie back to craft a brand new Champion! Her busy schedule includes being a professional costume artist and maker, actor, and TTRPG performer on shows like Children of Éarte. Now she's crafted Thellora for our game, as well as her appearance on Idle Champions Presents: Fatebreaker!

Some female centaurs born within the vicinity of Callewood bear a single, striking golden eye. This signals they have been selected by their god to become trained warriors and guardians. As one of those fifty-three chosen, Thellora has spent her life learning all the skills needed to face threats wherever they may appear. With her armor and weapons always ready, and a pocket full of candies for her sweet tooth, she's ready to charge into any battle!

Thellora would rather Rush through the easier encounters so she can get to the real challenge, so she'll help the formation skip over the early part of an adventure. As she leads this charge forward, she'll prepare for more difficult encounters by boosting the damage of those in the column behind her, and increasing that even more if her hooves and blade fails to kill her enemy. The rest of the formation are bolstered from her health and healing boost, and adjacent Champions will enjoy the benefits of her assigned feats.

Depending on who has joined her in battle, Thellora can Specialize in increasing the damage of specific types of heroes. She can focus on boosting those with low strength, helping Speed Champions, or offering that bonus to Female and Non-Binary Champions. And when necessary she can call upon The Light of Mount Tura to illuminate her stampede across the battlefield, inspiring her allies to do more damage as she knocks back and stuns her enemies!

Thellora knows that bravery is being scared to die but continuing to fight, and her paladin might and heroic presence will encourage everyone in the formation onward!

IV. Thellora's Abilities

Basic Attack

• Windsong's Strike - Thellora moves up to the closest enemy and rears up, knocking them back with her hooves and dealing 1 hit. She then strikes the next closest enemy with her blade, dealing 1 hit.

Passive Ability

• Plateaus of Unicorn Run - Thellora gains a Rush stack for every 10 areas she completes in an adventure, and these stacks persist through resets. When Thellora kills her first enemy in an adventure, she spends X Rush stacks to skip to area X+1, and her Rush stacks are reset to zero. The highest area that can be skipped to is your current favor exponent for the campaign/event. Thellora gathers all the rewards (including gold) from bosses skipped in this fashion, but nothing from normal monsters.

Formation Abilities

• Strength of the Luma - Thellora increases the damage of Champions in the column behind her by 100%.

• Radiance of the Sky Cents - Thellora increases the health of all other Champions by 25% of her max health and any healing effect on those Champions is increased by 25%.

• Paladin's Resolve - Each time Thellora attacks and doesn't kill an enemy, she increases the effect of Strength of the Luma by 15% until the area changes, stacking multiplicatively and capped at 100 stacks.

• Feats to Spare - The effects of feats assigned to Thellora also apply to all adjacent Champions. Note that feats that buff her formation abilities have no effect when applied to other Champions.

Specializations

• Defender of the Meek - Thellora increases the damage of Champions with a STR of 12 or less by 31% for each Champion in the formation with a STR of 12 or less, stacking multiplicatively. Buffs apply to the pre-stack value.

• Vanguard of the Quick - Thellora increases the damage of Speed Champions by 27.5% for each Speed Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Buffs apply to the pre-stack value.

• Callessa's Blessed - Thellora increases the damage of Female and Non-Binary Champions by 27.5% for each Female and Non-Binary Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Buffs apply to the pre-stack value.

Ultimate Ability

• The Light of Mount Tura - A sunbeam illuminates Thellora as she charges across the screen, attacking enemies in a wide line, dealing 1 hit, knocking them back a short distance, and stunning them for 5 seconds. For the next 15 seconds, her right eye glows with a golden light, increasing the damage of all Champions by 400%.

V. Thellora's Epic Equipment

Slot 1: Global DPS	Slot 2: Global Health	Slot 3: Strength of the Luma
Slot 4: Paladin's Resolve	Slot 5: Defender of the Meek, Vanguard of the Quick, and Callessa's Blessed	Slot 6: Ultimate Cooldown

VI. Conclusion

With this Champion of the Luma in your formation, you'll be ready to charge into battle! Share your thoughts on Thellora in several places:

• The Idle Champions Subreddit or Steam forums.
• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• Our YouTube Channels: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms and CNEGames.
• Our social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok!

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!

Well met adventurers!

Last week we announced changes to Patron Currency rewards due to egregious scaling issues at the upper echelons. The response from players was immediate, and we want you to know that you have been heard loud and clear.

It is clear that this system could not be left as it was. However, it is also clear based on your feedback that we missed the mark. With that feedback in mind we have made additional adjustments to the Patron Currency reward scaling, which you will find below.

First, some context: while the previously announced rewards scaled linearly at 12 times the area requirement, the updated reward structure now increases that multiplier on variants with higher area requirements.

• For the Patron Variants requiring area 1325 to be cleared, the new currency reward has been increased from 15,900 to 50,350, meaning players will be able to collect 10 Patron Chests instead of 3.


• Completing every Patron Variant currently available in the game will allow players to collect 2,959 Patron Chests across the four existing Patrons -- an increase from 1,803 Patron Chests using the previous 12x linear scaling.

We acknowledge that this is still a significant change from the previous exponential rewards behavior. However, the bulk of this change occurs across only a handful of adventures:

• For Patron Variants requiring you to beat up to area 500 (58% of the total patron variants), this update more than doubles the amount of Patron Currency earned.


• For Patron Variants requiring you to beat up to area 1000 (39% of the total patron variants), this represents a 40% decrease in Patron Currency earned.

Here is a breakdown of the currency rewards (and equivalent Chest count) with the previously announced 12x linear scaling, and the new scaling that is going live today. As you can see, newer players are able to collect chests sooner, and the rewards for the higher-level variants are scaled up in a way that reflects the time investment to get there. It is also important to note that the majority of available adventures will have their rewards increased.

Area Requirement	12x Linear Scaling (Previously Announced)	New Scaling (Based on Feedback)
300	3,600	3900
400	4,800	6000 (1 Chest)
500	6,000 (1 Chest)	9,000 (1 Chest)
600	7,200 (1 Chest)	12,000 (2 Chests)
700	8,400 (1 Chest)	15,400 (3 Chests)
800	9,600 (1 Chest)	20,000 (4 Chests)
900	10,800 (2 Chests)	24,300 (4 Chests)
1000	12,000 (2 Chests)	30,000 (6 Chests)
1100	13,200 (2 Chests)	35,200 (7 Chests)
1200	14,400 (2 Chests)	42,000 (8 Chests)
1300	15,600 (3 Chests)	48,100 (9 Chests)

Overall, we believe these changes are important for the long-term health of Idle Champions. As always, and especially now, we appreciate your dedication to the game and your feedback.

The Arena of Blood is under attack! The Champions must fight their way back to the docks if they're going to rescue Xedalli from her would-be-emperor brother, but they'll need help. And that help comes from a very surprising place! After that, it's time to train a new group of spelljammer pilots and take the fight to Xaryxispace!

Note: you will need to complete the previous two Light of Xaryxis adventures, The Jungles of Doomspace and The Arena of Blood, in order to access these new adventures.

Foul Play

Survive Xeleth's attack on the Arena and push back his forces with a surprising ally.

• Variant: Fowl Play - Survive Xeleth's attack on the Arena while literally pushing back his forces.
  • An Abyssal Chicken spawns with each wave. They don't drop gold, nor do they count towards quest progress.
  • Non-boss, non-static monsters take no damage until they have been pushed back, rooted, slowed, or stunned.
  • Complete area 950

Spelljammers in Training

The coalition is in need of Spelljammers, luckily, we have some friends!

• Variant: Time Out - The coalition is in need of Spelljammers, luckily, we have some weak friends!
  • You may only use Champions with an STR of 13 or lower.
  • After area 5, a temporal anomaly affects a random Champion in each area. They can't attack, be moved, or be removed until the players switch areas.
  • Complete area 1000

We would love to hear about your experiences in wildspace on the Idle Champions Subreddit, on the Steam forums, or on the Official Idle Champions Discord!

After mysteriously being whisked away to Sigil, City of Doors, the Champions are conscripted by the Lady of Pain to hunt for a stolen artifact of immeasurable power: Fatebreaker.

But our Champions are not alone on their mission. Factions from throughout the planes and beyond realmspace each seek Fatebreaker for their own ends.

It's a race to see who can reach it first - and to stop a megalomaniacal wizard from using it to change their fate.

We are excited to announce the return of Idle Champions Presents, a TTRPG live play special event series starting Monday, October 16th! All five episodes of Idle Champions Presents: Fatebreaker will broadcast live on Mondays at 10am Pacific on the CNEGames Twitch channel. As with previous Idle Champions Presents shows, the event will include voting in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms that will give our players loot and potentially change the outcome of the adventure!

Idle Champions Presents: Fatebreaker

Once again we are very happy to have returning Dungeon Master B Dave Walters (Black Dice Society, A Darkened Wish, Into the Mother Lands), leading five fearsome Champions on a wild adventure through the multiverse!

The Party features Alicia Marie as Thellora, Gina Darling as Jang Sao, Mark Meer as King Uriah, Meagan Kenreck as Widdle, and Noura Ibrahim as Nahara.

Vote for the Show You Want to See

Just like with our previous Idle Champions Presents campaigns, Idle Champions players will be able to influence the characters and events of upcoming Idle Champions Presents episodes through in-game daily votes. Starting on Monday, October 9th at 12 PM Pacific, each vote will go live for 24 hours.

• Can I have a quick overview? Each day, a new vote will become available within Idle Champions. The result of that vote will influence the tabletop D&D episode that airs the following Monday. Vote each day to get a reward token to spend on any of the daily rewards throughout the five-week event!

• Wait, so this is a Livestream thing? It's an everything thing! Daily votes will have both an in-game effect and a livestream effect. For example, suppose players vote for a specific environmental hazard or monsters for the Champions to encounter. In that case, you'll be able to see how the vote results shape the livestream episode the following Monday. Additionally, you'll be able to collect a reward token you can redeem for a reward of your choice by participating in the vote that day!

• Do I have to watch the Twitch Livestream to participate? No, all you have to do is play Idle Champions and vote to participate. In addition to helping craft an unforgettable show, voting earns you reward tokens you can redeem to collect chests, potions, contracts, and even an exclusive familiar. However, for those who watch the show live, there will be giveaways from WizKids, Beadle & Grimm's Pandemonium Warehouse, and Idle Champions DLC packs!

• How long are votes available? Votes are available for 24 hours starting at 12 PM Pacific and ending at 12 PM Pacific the following day, every Monday through Sunday. After that, the next vote becomes available, and the results of the previous day's vote are locked and become public. Since we don't want to give away any spoilers for the next episode, on Sundays there will be no active vote from 12 PM Pacific until the end of the next day's episode (1 PM Pacific on Monday). Once the episode airs, the next vote becomes available, with players who are active in-game at that time getting a first shot at the vote, and the new week's rewards!

• How does voting work? You get only one vote per day, so make it count! Whenever you vote, you earn a reward token that can be redeemed immediately to collect ANY of the daily rewards that have been revealed so far. If you collect 3 of the daily rewards within any week, you can collect a premium weekly reward for free - no additional reward token is needed. Important Note: You must log into the game and vote to collect a reward token before the vote closes at 12 PM Pacific. Make sure you come back every day so you don't miss any tokens!

• What are the rules for reward tokens? A reward token collected on Week 1: Day 1 is the same as a reward token collected on Week 5: Day 6. You can spend those tokens on ANY of the daily rewards in ANY of the weeks.

• Where are the rewards listed? You can find the available reward tab at the bottom of the left column for each week. Each week has a unique list of items, and each item is available once within each week.

• When are the other daily/weekly rewards revealed? The first vote for the next week will be revealed on Monday afternoons at the end of each episode, along with the daily/weekly rewards for that week.

• I can't see all the rewards. How can I choose? Daily rewards each week will be a mix of Chests & other consumables. Each daily reward is collected with a single reward token. From a weekly reward standpoint:
  • Week 1 is an exclusive familiar: Aurora the Lantern Archon
  • Week 2 is a Potion of the Gem Hunter
  • Week 3 is a Potion of Polish.
  • Week 4 is 1000 Modron Component Pieces.
  • Week 5 is a Potion of the Gold Hunter.
  To collect a weekly reward, you only have to collect 3 of the daily rewards for that week. Collecting a weekly reward will not cost a reward token. Every day you vote allows you to collect an additional reward token!

• Can I vote for both choices? No. You can only vote once a day.

• How many votes can I get each week? There are 6 votes each week, and you can vote once for each vote. That means someone who is logging in and voting every day can collect 6 reward tokens each week, for a total of 30 reward tokens over the course of this event.

• How long do I have to redeem a reward token? Rewards will be available for the duration of the Idle Champions Presents event. The notification will turn off at 11:59 AM Pacific on November 15th, so we suggest collecting all of your rewards before then. Any remaining reward tokens will go away at the close of the Idle Champions Presents event.

• Do you have to vote to collect a reward token? Yes.

• Where can I watch Idle Champions Presents episodes? Idle Champions Presents broadcasts for 5 episodes, starting on Monday, October 16th and ending on Monday, November 13th. All episodes are on the Codename Entertainment Twitch channel. If you miss the live event, you can watch the video on demand on Twitch, or soon after the broadcast on our YouTube channel.
  We’ll also have a special LIVE Idle Insights Aftershow with the entire cast on November 20th at 10 AM Pacific on the same Twitch channel!

All the details are also available in-game!

We hope you'll join us in discussion about Idle Champions Presents on the Idle Champions Subreddit, on the Steam forums, or on the Official Idle Champions Discord!