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The Champions are celebrating together at a Liar's Night party at the Wayside Inn when suddenly a masked pickpocket crashes the festivities, stealing magical items and escaping into the night...
Liar's Night has returned to Idle Champions, and this year players can look forward to two Darklords as Featured Champions: the legendary vampire and Darklord of Tovag, Kas, and the dreaded Darklord of Koshmarr, Voronika.
The latest New Champion, Kas, launches with Liar's Night today, while Voronika's Rebalance will launch in one week on Wednesday, October 9th. For more information about Liar's Night 8, read on...
Featured Champions
Kas
Once the Lieutenant of Vecna, Kas betrayed his former master in a fight resulting in the dreaded artifacts, the Hand and Eye of Vecna. Kas is a vampire, legendary swordfighter, and ruthless warlord, and he is driven primarily by one thing: his hatred for Vecna.
Learn more about Kas in his Champion Spotlight. Kas arrives today with the launch of Liar's Night!
Voronika
A young Eladrin woman, raised to be the Queen of Koshmarr, what was meant to be an idyllic life took a dark turn on the night of her wedding. Pulled into the machinations of greater powers, she found herself in Mordent, now one of the many wandering ghosts. A person of great interest both to Azalin Rex and Strahd, she sought to negotiate her freedom from these dread domains. Her longtime companions and their newfound friends wanted the same and imbued her soul into Desmond’s sword. As they traveled in search of returning her soul to her body, Voronika took matters into her own hands and used the crown of the Raven Queen to defeat Zybilna and cause the fall of Prismeer. This action drew the mists to Voronika and soon she discovered herself a new darklord in her domain of Koshmarr.
Learn about Voronika's upcoming rebalance in her 2024 Champion Spotlight launching on Friday, October 4th. The Voronika Rebalance arrives on Wednesday, October 9th at the beginning of Liar's Night Week 2!
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:
Ezmerelda
SEAT 1
Thellora
SEAT 1
Donaar
SEAT 2
Brig
SEAT 3
Kent
SEAT 4
Krond
SEAT 6
Astarion
SEAT 10
Avren
SEAT 11
Dob
SEAT 12
Event Augments
Boon Enhancements: An additional boon buff at each level increases gems dropped from bosses.
Auto-Equip: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots, if they don't already have better.
Auto-Blacksmith: Every tier two or higher event variant completed automatically applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to the variant's Champion's equipment for free!
Worth The Wait: Rebalanced Champion Voronika releases at the start of week two of this event. Completing her tier 2+ variants awards double chests!
You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.
We Want YOUR Feedback
We want to hear about your experiences in Idle Champions! What do you think about Kas? Are you excited for the legendary vampire to come to the game? Your participation and feedback are invaluable, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms:
Once the Lieutenant of Vecna, Kas betrayed his former master in a fight resulting in the dreaded artifacts, the Hand and Eye of Vecna. Kas is a vampire, legendary swordfighter, and ruthless warlord, and he is driven primarily by one thing: his hatred for Vecna.
Kas is a DPS and Healing Champion that excels when used with Evil Champions. In addition, this Vampire Lord can turn living Champions into his thralls, granting the ability to recover lost hit points with every attack they make. Once unlocked, you can find this Human Fighter in Seat 6 (Asharra).
Vengeful Swing (melee)
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Kas moves up to the closest enemy and swings his sword, dealing one hit to all enemies in a small area.
Formation Abilities
Vampire Lord - Kas is Undead and counts as "dead" for the purposes of effects that care about dead Champions, but "alive" for all other purposes. Via his abilities, Kas may cause one or more other Champions in the formation to become his Vampire Spawns, which are also Undead.
Born Into Evil - Kas increases his damage by 100% for each Evil Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
Mortal Pawns - Every time an area is completed, Kas gains Pawn stacks equal to the number of Champions in the formation that are not one of his Vampire Spawns. Each Pawn stack increases the effect of Born Into Evil by 0.5%, stacking multiplicatively.
Life Drain - When an Undead Champion in the formation attacks, they regain 50 Hit Points.
Spawn of Kas - When a Champion that is not already Undead dies, they immediately resurrect at full health as a Vampire Spawn, counting as Undead for the rest of the adventure. The effect of Born Into Evil is increased by 100% for each Undead Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
Specializations
Kas the Bloody Handed - Kas increases the effect of Life Drain by 100% and Evil Champions attack faster as their base attack cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds.
Kas the Betrayer - Kas' damage against Boss enemies is increased by 100%, and the effect of Born Into Evil is increased by 100% for each Undead Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively
Kas the Destroyer - Increase the effect of Born Into Evil by 100%. In addition, Champions adjacent to Kas gain the Evil tag. This does not affect their other alignment tags, and doesn't affect whether they are eligible for the adventure.
Ultimate Ability
Rise, Fallen Soldier! (magic)
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Kas summons two specters that move towards enemies, dealing ultimate damage each second for 15 seconds.
Equipment
Born Into Evil Buff
SLOT 1
Mortal Pawns Buff
SLOT 2
Life Drain Buff
SLOT 3
Spawn of Kas Buff
SLOT 4
Buffs all Specializations
SLOT 5
Ultimate Cooldown
SLOT 6
Feats
Uncommon
Tavern Brawler
Increases the damage of Kas by 30%
Born in Darkness
Increases the effect of Kas' Born Into Evil ability by 20%
Familiars
Increases the effect of Kas' Mortal Pawns ability by 20%
Life From Death
Increases the effect of Kas' Life Drain ability by 20%
Rare
Grappler
Increases the damage of Kas by 60%
Evil Begets Evil
Increases the effect of Kas' Born Into Evil ability by 40%
Followers
Increases the effect of Kas' Mortal Pawns ability by 40%
Sanguine Wine
Increases the effect of Kas' Life Drain ability by 40%
Live Again
Increases the effect of Kas' Spawn of Kas ability by 40%
Dark Powers' Embrace
Increases the effect of Kas' Kas the Bloody Handed, Kas the Betrayer, and Kas the Destroyer specializations by 40%
Epic
My Creatures
Increases the effect of Kas' Spawn of Kas ability by 80%
Unlockable as an Event Reward
The Sword of Kas
Kas' damage is increased by 400% and his base attack cooldown is reset at the start of every area.
Available in the Darklord Kas Theme Pack, or for 50,000 Gems
Stake to the Heart
Increases the damage of Kas by 400%. Kas' attacks prevent the target from healing for 10 seconds.
Unlockable as an Event Reward
We Want YOUR Feedback
We have been excited to bring Kas the Bloody Handed to Idle Champions for a long time, and that day is almost here. What do you think about his design? Will you be using this legendary vampire in your formations?
Your feedback is important to us, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms:
Exploring ancient temples can lead to astounding archaeological discoveries, but also devastating consequences. However some Champions remain confident in their fabulous capabilities rather than let the dark memories sour their levity!
Kent is a trained archeologist whose blade is as sharp as his outfits. He joins his fellow Rivals of Waterdeep Gazrick, Shaka, Selise, and D'hani in the Champion roster during Liar's Night!
I. Kent
Kent is a former archaeologist turned adventurer whose Rogue skills and powers over death were honed by spending months making his way through the temple of Talona, where the rest of his archaeological research team was killed by traps and monsters. When he finally returned home to the lakeside town of Caradoon, he was the same outgoing, flamboyant Tiefling he had always been, but now it seemed to mask a darkness that Kent has since done his best to keep hidden. Fortunately for him, he doesn't have to bear the darkness alone, because not long after his return to Caradoon, he met smart, capable, and patient Aasimar named Virgil. Together they met up with Selise from the Rivals, and joined her and the rest of the crew in Waterdeep.
Kent is a support and DPS Champion who collects soul trinkets representing the highest level boss defeated in each campaign, which he uses to buff himself and Champions in his column. In addition, he increases the effectiveness of your achievement bonuses for the adventure he is on. Once unlocked, you can find this tiefling rogue with Jarlaxle in Slot 4.
II. Kent's Stats
Race: Tiefling
Alignment: Neutral Good
Gender: Male
Pronouns: He/Him
Class: Rogue
Age: 35
Affiliation: Rivals of Waterdeep
STR: 8
DEX: 20
CON: 14
INT: 14
WIS: 10
CHA: 14
Role: Support and DPS Eligible for Patrons: Mirt, Vajra, Strahd Slot: 4 (Jarlaxle)
III. Kent's Design
Eugenio Vargas is a New York City based singer, actor, and music director who has extensive experience both on and behind the stage. With a love of performing and gaming, he's become well known in the TTRPG industry for his amazing work, including as the DM and producer for The Last Refuge podcast, the Storyteller for Into the Mother Lands, and a writer and designer on many D&D products including Fizban's Treasury of Dragons for Wizards of the Coast. He is already well known to the Idle Champions community for his work on A Familiar Quest and The Pear Passage charity one shot, so we're very excited to bring his Rivals of Waterdeep character to the game!
Kent is all about making the formation more effective by celebrating your previous achievements. As you defeat bosses across all our Campaigns, Kent collects Tokens of the Departed, and increases the damage of himself and all Champions in his column. The more powerful the boss, the higher the damage bonus! He'll also make all the Champions more powerful by adding a bit EXTRA! using your current Achievement bonus. With a wealth of experiences to draw from, Kent is an adept at attacking nearby enemies with his Rapier, and Remembering the Old Days helps makes his attacks even more effective. But this rogue doesn't have to go it alone! After Virgil's release, you'll find that the two of them are Inseparable and where one goes, the other can follow.
If the formation is filled with his fellow Rivals of Waterdeep, Kent can specialize in increasing the attack bonus of Tokens of the Departed for each of those Robust Rivals. Or he can focus on his Potent Poison to add poison damage to all of his attacks. When Kent gets serious about defeating enemies, he calls on the Wails from the Grave to change the weather to an eerie fog, and call on ghostly spirits to help Kent deal some Ultimate damage!
IV. Kent's Abilities
Basic Attack
Rapier - Kent strikes the closest enemy with his rapier.
Formation Abilities
Tokens of the Departed - Kent keeps a soul trinket of the highest level boss defeated in each campaign and the best event where he was present at the bosses' defeat. Kent increases the damage of all Champions in his column (including himself) by 10% times the sum of all levels from his soul trinkets.
Remembering the Old Days - Each time Kent or the ghostly spirit from his Ultimate attacks, he gains a Nostalgia stack that lasts until entering a new area. Kent increases his damage by +50% for each Nostalgia stack, stacking multiplicatively and then applied multiplicatively. Buffs are applied to the post stack value, and Nostalgia stacks are capped at 25 stacks.
EXTRA! - Kent's force of personality emboldens his companions. Kent increases the damage of all Champions by your current Achievement bonus.
Inseparable - If Virgil qualifies for an adventure restriction based on his tags, age, ability scores, etc., Kent may be used as well. Note: this won't be enabled until after Virgil's release!
Specializations
Robust Rivals - Kent increases the attack bonus of Tokens of the Departed by +100% for each Rivals of Waterdeep Champion, stacking multiplicatively and applied multiplicatively.
Potent Poison - Whenever Kent attacks an enemy and doesn't kill it, it is affected by a virulent poison. The poison deals 400% of your BUD to the enemy each second for 4 seconds.
Ultimate Ability
Wails from the Grave - For 30 seconds, when Kent makes a normal attack, a ghostly spirit briefly appears and makes an attack dealing ultimate damage, on another random enemy if possible. Additionally, the weather changes to fog.
WARNING SPOILERS. This blog contains spoilers for the final episode of Idle Champions Presents: The Trials of Mount Tiamat.
Idle Champions Presents: The Trials of Mount Tiamat
Thank you for joining us for Idle Champions Presents: The Trials of Mount Tiamat. Dungeon Master B Dave Walters (Black Dice Society, A Darkened Wish, Into the Mother Lands) took our three brave parties of Champions through a harrowing campaign across seven episodes, leading them into a direct confrontation against Tiamat with the fate of the Forgotten Realms hanging in the balance.
For a full recap of the adventure check out the Idle Champions Presents: Trials of Mount Tiamat Synopsis blog post In case you missed any episodes or want to rewatch the adventure, check out our YouTube channel. If you want to play through the adventure at home, we will be releasing a PDF of the adventure soon!
We had an exciting seven weeks filled with voting and rewards! As a reminder, all in-game rewards must be claimed before the start of our Year's End Festival, so claim your voting rewards before 12 PM Pacific on Wednesday, December 1st!
As part of voting and with a little Champion rebalancing we had four new feats for our Champions become available - the winners of the votes were unlocked in-game with the conclusion of their votes, but all four will be available for 12,500 gems as of 12 PM Pacific on Wednesday, December 1st.
Party One featured Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers), Mark Meer (Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition) , Tanya DePass (Rivals of Waterdeep, Into the Mother Lands), and Todd Kenreck (Heroes of the Planes, Beyond Heroes), and Jason Charles Miller (The Gaxx Pack, Sirens of the Realms, Bardic Inspiration).
Party Two featured Hope LaVelle (Heroes of the Planes, Beyond Heroes), Shareef Jackson (Rivals of Waterdeep) , LaTia Jacquise (Rivals of Waterdeep, Into the Mother Lands), and Meagan Kenreck (Heroes of the Planes, Beyond Heroes), and Jim Zub (Heroes of Baldur’s Gate).
Increase Melf's Adaptive Support Spell per race effect to 25% per race (up from 10%)
Increase Melf's Augmented Support Spell bonuses to 100% each (up from 50%)
Triple ultimate damage multiplier
Ascendant Reinforcement Skins DLC
The Ascendant Reinforcements are here! This new DLC is available as Skin & Feat Packs for Strix, Evelyn, Walnut, Vlahnya, & Melf, or bundled all together at a discount!
The Ascendant Strix Skin & Feat Pack contains an unlock for Strix, the new Ascendant Strix Skin, an Epic Feat for Strix, and 7 Gold Strix Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.
The Ascendant Evelyn Skin & Feat Pack contains an unlock for Evelyn, the new Ascendant Evelyn Skin, an Epic Feat for Evelyn, and 7 Gold Evelyn Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.
The Ascendant Walnut Skin & Feat Pack contains an unlock for Walnut, the new Ascendant Walnut Skin, an Epic Feat for Walnut, and 7 Gold Walnut Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.
The Ascendant Vlahnya Skin & Feat Pack contains an unlock for Vlahnya, the new Ascendant Vlahnya Skin, an Epic Feat for Vlahnya, and 7 Gold Vlahnya Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.
The Ascendant Melf Skin & Feat Pack contains an unlock for Melf, the new Ascendant Melf Skin, an Epic Feat for Melf, and 7 Gold Melf Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.
Idle Champions Presents will return next year with Idle Champions Presents: Court of the Raven Queen.
The Cult of the Dragon has succeeded in their efforts to bring the Queen of Evil Dragonkind to the prime material plane, and has consolidated their power to fortify their stronghold at the Well of Dragons.
Champions from across the Forgotten Realms heed the call to band together and face this cataclysmic threat. It is here that the adventure for Idle Champions Presents: The Trial of Mount Tiamat begins...
Idle Champions Presents: The Trials of Mount Tiamat
We are excited to announce the return of Idle Champions Presents, a TRPG live play special event series starting Monday, October 18th. Each episode of Idle Champions Presents will broadcast live from 4PM until 7PM Pacific Time Mondays on the CNEGames Twitch.
Join Dungeon Master B Dave Walters (Black Dice Society, A Darkened Wish, Into the Mother Lands) as he takes two brave parties of Champions through an epic level campaign across seven episodes, leading them into a direct confrontation against an evil goddess with the fate of the Forgotten Realms hanging in the balance.
Party One features Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers), Mark Meer (Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition) , Tanya DePass (Rivals of Waterdeep, Into the Mother Lands), and Todd Kenreck (Heroes of the Planes, Beyond Heroes), and Jason Charles Miller (The Gaxx Pack, Sirens of the Realms, Bardic Inspiration).
Check out the synposis and catch up on epsiodes from the first arc of Idle Champions Presents: The Trials of Mount Tiamat here with Episode 1: The Lake of Shadow, Episode 2: Fungus Grove, and Episode 3: Episode 3: The Mountain’s Fury!
Party Two features Hope LaVelle (Heroes of the Planes, Beyond Heroes), Shareef Jackson (Rivals of Waterdeep) , LaTia Jacquise (Rivals of Waterdeep, Into the Mother Lands), and Meagan Kenreck (Heroes of the Planes, Beyond Heroes), and Jim Zub (Heroes of Baldur’s Gate).
The second arc of our adventure begins on November 8th at 4PM Pacific at Twitch.tv/CNEGames with Episode 4: Forest of Dragons!
Vote for the Show You Want to See
Just like with our first Idle Champions Presents, 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 Tuesday, October 12 with the in-game daily reset (12PM PT), each vote will go live for 24 hours, with the final vote for the week ending on Monday at 12PM PT.
Daily votes will have both an In-Game Effect and a Livestream Effect. For example, if players vote for one of two Champions to be granted a boon for the next episode of Idle Champions Presents, that Champion would be granted a corresponding boon in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms! We don't want to spoil everything that players will be able to vote for, but here's an idea of what a few of the daily votes might look like:
Dice Roll! — Which Champion gains an guaranteed 'critical' roll?
Players will get to roll an Idle Champions D6 to collect a number of Electrum Chests and if they roll a 6, they can collect this paragon of honor and justice as a free familiar!
Lucky Choice — Which Champion should gains a luck die?
Surprise Find — Which Champion should find some additional gear?
Wild Card! — Do the Champions meet goblins or kobolds? Who explores the darkness? What fun affliction affects the chosen Champion?
But wait, there's more: there are Weekly Challenges each week that will vary between easy, medium, and difficult challenges to earn additional votes for daily votes. You can save these votes up for as long as you wish, using them all on the final vote in Week 7 if you wish. The choice is up to you!
The first vote begins on Tuesday, October 12 at 12PM PT in-game. You'll want to check in every day if you want the most chances to influence Idle Champions Presents!
Party 1 Champion Rebalance
In order to account for the way the current meta would impact voting, we’ve made some adjustments to certain Champions.
Increase base effect of A Celestial Puzzle from 100% to 150%
What do I need to know?
Idle Champions Presents: The Trials of Mount Tiamat begins on Monday, October 18th with the first episode broadcasting from 4PM until 7PM Pacific Time on Twitch.tv/CNEGames. Daily votes for the first episode will begin the week before, starting on Tuesday, October 12th at 12PM Pacific.
While Season 2 is a completely separate story arc than the first season, if you want to relive the Idle Champions Presents magic, you can watch Idle Champions Presents: The Unfair Seas and Idle Champions Presents: A Fool’s Errand on YouTube.
We can't wait to see how this all comes together! We hope you'll join us in discussion about Idle Champions Presents on Twitter using the #ICPAscendant hashtag and tagging @IdleChampions.
A young Eladrin woman, raised to be the Queen of Koshmarr, what was meant to be an idyllic life took a dark turn on the night of her wedding. Pulled into the machinations of greater powers, she found herself in Mordent, now one of the many wandering ghosts. A person of great interest both to Azalin Rex and Strahd, she sought to negotiate her freedom from these dread domains. Her longtime companions and their newfound friends wanted the same and imbued her soul into Desmond’s sword. As they traveled in search of returning her soul to her body, Voronika took matters into her own hands and used the crown of the Raven Queen to defeat Zybilna and cause the fall of Prismeer. This action drew the mists to Voronika and soon she discovered herself a new darklord in her domain of Koshmarr.
