Spring is here and this year our Spring Extravaganza is back! This year's celebration brings a day of streaming, daily rewards, an update to the Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign, and a new Evergreen Champion unlock.

If you're interested in learning more about what's coming with today's update, you've come to the right place...

Table of Contents

• Spring Extravaganza
• Daily Rewards
• Days of Streaming
• Gem Shop Update
• Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Part 4
• New Evergreen Champion: Blooshi I
• New DLC
• Feedback Wanted!

Spring Extravaganza

Players who claim a daily chest on at least four days will be able to earn exclusive rewards!

Daily Rewards

Each daily chest grants you five awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures.

These rewards are unlocked once you have claimed at least four days worth of rewards during the Spring Extravaganza.

• Exclusive Prismeer Nayeli Skin
• A Rare Feat for Nayeli - Prodigal Leader increases Global DPS by 50%
• 5 Gold Chests

Days of Streaming

We have an exciting day of streaming scheduled to kick off our annual Spring Extravaganza! Tune in to our Twitch Channel for more information!

Gem Shop Update

We've added the following skins to the gem shop, which are visible and available once you've unlocked the corresponding Champion:

• Ascendant Minsc Skin
• Ascendant Avren Skin
• Ascendant Havilar Skin
• Ascendant Freely Skin
• Ascendant Baeloth Skin
• Ascendant Shaka Skin
• Icewind Dale Asharra
• Icewind Dale Zorbu
• Solstice Shandie

Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Part 4

Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Part 4 brings our latest Evergreen Champion, Blooshi I. Blooshi I can be unlocked by completing Bully for You! the second variant for The Fairy Rings of Thither adventure.

New Evergreen Champion: Blooshi I

Blooshi is a Support and Tank Champion who hails from the Soggy Court in Prismeer. She enjoys taunting her enemies, and when she becomes overwhelmed relies on the power of her undead patron to return as a spirit and a formidable tank. Once unlocked you can add her to your formation by swapping her out with Celeste (Slot 2).

For more information about our latest Evergreen Champion, check out the Idle Champion Spotlight: Blooshi I blog post!

New DLC Packs

Four new DLC Packs are now available!

The Polymorphed Yorven Skin & Feat Pack includes an unlock for Yorven, the new Polymorphed Yorven Skin, Yorven's Furry Fury Feat, and 7 Gold Yorven Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.

The Polymorphed Minsc Skin & Feat Pack includes the new Polymorphed Minsc Skin, Minsc's Prodigal Leader Feat, and 7 Supply Chests with 1 Potion of Polish.

The Prismeer Sentry Skin & Feat Pack includes an unlock for Sentry, the new Prismeer Sentry Skin, Sentry's Prodigal Leader Feat, and 7 Gold Sentry Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.

The Prismeer Shandie Theme Pack includes an unlock for Shandie, the new Prismeer Shandie Skin, Shandie's Prodigal Leader Feat, and 7 Gold Shandie Chests with 1 Guaranteed Shiny Equipment Card.

Feedback Wanted!

These changes are scheduled to go live at approximately 12:00PM PDT on Wednesday, March 23rd. 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!

Enjoy :)

Spring is here and this year our Spring Extravaganza is back! This year's celebration brings a day of streaming, daily rewards, the conclusion of our Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus campaign, a new Evergreen Champion unlock, a new Patron, and the third modron core and ability to field a third party, oh my!

If you're interested in learning more about what's coming with today's update, you've come to the right place...

Table of Contents

• Spring Extravaganza
• Daily Rewards
• Bardic Inspiration
• New Modron Core
• New Patron: Zariel
• New Patron Items
• New Evergreen Champion: Reya Mantlemorn
• New DLC
• Descent into Avernus, Part 10
• Feedback Wanted!

Spring Extravaganza

Players who claim rewards on at least four days will be able to earn exclusive rewards!

Daily Rewards

Each daily chest grants you four awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures.

These rewards are unlocked once you have claimed at least four days worth of rewards during the Spring Extravaganza.

• Exclusive "Celestial Celeste" Skin
• 5 Modron Chests
• 5 Gold Chests

Bardic Inspiration

Today's update includes a New Soundtrack! Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 features eight original songs composed by Jason Charles Miller and Dylan Wilks during the first twenty episodes of Bardic Inspiration, which were recorded at Central Command Studios in Los Angeles over the winter.

All 16 tracks (the eight original tracks and their instrumental versions) are coming to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms! Players have been asking us to expand the soundtrack for Idle Champions for years; starting today, players will be able to select their favorite Bardic Inspiration tracks from Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 to play during their adventures with the new in-game music player. Once the update launches, look for the button with the musical note in the main UI.

Bardic Inspiration is also available as a DLC on Steam! Collect your own Studio-quality MP3 & FLAC files through the Bardic Inspiration Vol. 1 Steam store page!



For more information about Bardic Inspiration Vol 1 including the tracklist, check out our Bardic Inspiration Vol 1 blog post

Third Modron Core: Speed

Our third modron core, the Speed Core, and the ability to field a third party are now available!

The Speed Core will be unlocked upon completing Split the Party 2 at no gem cost. Due to technical limitations, the Speed Core will appear in the modron shop for some platforms, this will be patched out shortly!

Everyone will be able to unlock the Speed Core with the Split the Party 2 special adventure!

New Patron: Zariel

Another Patron has arrived! Zariel joins Mirt the Moneylender, The Blackstaff, Vajra Safahr, and Count Strahd von Zarovich as the fourth Patron in Idle Champions. Those seeking to serve the Zariel will need to unlock at least 50 Champions (including Core and Evergreen Champions) and complete the Elturel's Last Stand adventure in the Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus campaign. Once these criteria are met, players can spend 5000 Gems and 20 Silver Chests to unlock Zariel as a Patron!

Zariel demands Strength and Charisma from her followers. With Zariel as your Patron, only Champions with an STR score of 10+ AND a CHA score of 13+ can be used.

New Patron Items

With a new Patron comes a new Patron Shop where players can collect items using Zariel Patron currency!

The Baby Couatl Familiar, Couatls are benevolent serpentine beings of great intellect and insight, and this young one is happy to help you as your newest patron currency familiar.

The Celestial Bruenor Skin explores the possibility of what if Bruenor took up the Sword of Zariel instead of Reya? Leader of Clan Battlehammer and King of Mithral Hall, Bruenor understands commitment and service to his people. The Sword of Zariel recognizes his noble qualities.

The Hellrider Reya Skin Reya arrived in Elturel to train as a Hellrider at the age of twelve, years later, Reya raised the Sword of Zariel above her head and saved her city. This skin shows off her Hellrider uniform.

New Evergreen: Reya Mantlemorn

Today's update brings our latest Evergreen Champion, Reya Mantlemorn who can be unlocked by completing Reya Reborn the second variant for the Idyllglen adventure.

Reya powers up Champions adjacent to her with her Searing Radiance. You can power up that ability by increasing Champions who are Lawful and/or Good in the formation. When you want to add Reya to your formation, you can swap her with Asharra (Slot 6).

For more information about our latest Evergreen Champion, check out the Idle Champion Spotlight: Reya Mantlemorn blog post!

New DLC Packs

Three new DLC Packs are now available!

The Celestial Tyril Skin Pack unlocks the Celestial Tyril Skin, 7 Gold Chests, and 20,000 Symbols of Zariel. This pack is available in the Zariel Patron Shop.

The Bubbles the Hollyphant Familiar Pack will unlock the Bubbles the Hollyphant Familiar and two each of epic potions of Speed, Clairvoyance, and Giant's Strength.

The Cinnamon, the Red Panda Familiar Pack will unlock the Cinnamon, the Red Panda Familiar, six each of epic potions of Speed, Clairvoyance, and Giant's Strength, Fire Breath, and a Potion of Polish.

Descent into Avernus, Part 10

Now it's time to enact our plan to save Elturel! Some things go right, some things go wrong. One thing goes REALLY wrong and will have drastic repercussions for the future of FaerÈ—n and Idle Champions. Check out the full Descent into Avernus, Part 10 blog post for details about the new adventures and variants.

Feedback Wanted!

These changes are scheduled to go live at approximately 12:00PM PDT on Wednesday, March 31st. 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!

Enjoy :)

Announcing: Bardic Inspiration Vol.1

It's been incredibly difficult to contain our excitement these last few weeks!

It might not seem like it, but Bardic Inspiration has been around since last summer, with our first episode about Bruenor Battlehammer back in June 2020. If you had told us nine months ago that we would eventually record some of these songs in a studio and release them to the public, we wouldn't have believed you!

Allow us to finally and officially announce that Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 arrives with the Spring Extravaganza on Wednesday, March 31st as DLC on Steam!



Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 features eight original songs composed by Jason Charles Miller and Dylan Wilks during the first twenty episodes of Bardic Inspiration, which were recorded at Central Command Studios in Los Angeles over the winter.

Starting with "The Greatest Dwarven King," the anthem for Bruenor Battlehammer written during the very first episode, Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 includes a diverse selection of musical genres, including classic rock, goth/alternative, punk, country, heavy metal, swing, folk, and even a pop song for Tiamat, Queen of Evil Dragonkind. In addition to these eight studio-quality songs, there are also eight corresponding Instrumental versions for those who prefer their music without vocals. The full tracklist and production credits are below.

And that's not all: all 16 tracks are coming to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms! Players have been asking us to expand the soundtrack for Idle Champions for years; starting on March 31, players will be able to select their favorite Bardic Inspiration tracks from Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 to play during their adventures with the new in-game music player.

Anyone interested in hearing studio-quality recordings of the songs will be able to purchase the Bardic Inspiration Vol.1 DLC through the Idle Champions Steam Store page as of March 31 and download MP3s and FLAC files of each track. Everyone else will be able to listen to the soundtrack for free in-game. Of course, we encourage you to purchase the DLC; if we can sell enough of them, this kind of project might be able to happen again ;)

Disk 1	Disk 2
The Greatest Dwarven King	The Greatest Dwarven King (Instrumental)
Drop of Time	Drop of Time (Instrumental)
Brimstone Angels Go Go Go	Brimstone Angels Go Go Go (Instrumental)
Deekin's Tale of Doom	Deekin's Tale of Doom (Instrumental)
Savage Fire	Savage Fire (Instrumental)
The Viper's Fangs	The Viper's Fangs(Instrumental)
The Moneylender, Mirt	The Moneylender, Mirt (Instrumental)
You Could Be My Dragon Queen	You Could Be My Dragon Queen (Instrumental)

Bardic Inspiration Vol 1 Credits

• The Greatest Dwarven King
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Gary Joseph Potter Jr. – Lead guitar
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• Drop of Time
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming, keyboards
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• Brimstone Angels Go Go Go
  Kenley Shea – Vocals Jason Charles Miller – Guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Erin M. Evans – Additional Composition
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• Deekin’s Tale of Doom
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Adam Hall – Dobro
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• Savage Fire
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Gary Joseph Potter Jr. – Lead guitar
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• The Viper’s Fangs
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, programming
  Gary Joseph Potter Jr. – Lead guitar
  Vivid Vivka – Additional Composition
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• The Moneylender, Mirt
  Jason Charles Miller – Vocals, guitar
  Aubrey Richmond– Fiddle
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas
  
  
• You Could Be My Dragon Queen
  Kenley Shea – Vocals
  Jason Charles Miller – Guitar, bass, percussion, keyboards
  Mixed by Stewart Cararas

This album exists thanks in large part to the audience of Bardic Inspiration, who accompanied Jason and Dylan on this songwriting journey. Thank you all so much. We hope to do this again! You can catch Bardic Inspiration live on Tuesday from 1-3 PM Pacific on our Twitch Channel.

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
“With your help we expect to go to full launch in three to six months from Early Access launch.”

~Idle Champions, September 2017

Looking back, we were pretty ambitious in thinking that we would be able to fully develop all the features we were planning for Idle Champions within six months of launching on Steam. Since then we have expanded upon our vision, developing features that are the foundation for a long term live service game. It has been a long journey to get to this point, and we are eternally thankful to the community and the team here at CNE for helping us to get to this point. Thank you!

The time has come to leave Early Access, and to officially launch Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms v1.0!

If you're interested in learning more about what's coming with today's update, you've come to the right place...

Table of Contents

• Spring Extravaganza
• Daily Rewards
• General Updates
• Formation Saves Update
• Ultimate Balance Changes
• Champion Balance Update
• New Patron: Strahd von Zarovich
• New Patron Familiars
• New Patron Skins
• New DLC Packs
• Feedback Wanted!

Spring Extravaganza

With the launch of Idle Champions v1.0 we wanted to have a bit of a celebration. We decided upon doing something similar to our Second Anniversary Celebration, with daily rewards you can claim once each 24-hours. Players who claim rewards on at least four days will be able to earn exclusive rewards!

Daily Rewards

Each daily chest grants you four awesome items, hand-picked by the team here at Codename Entertainment to help you in your adventures.

These rewards are unlocked once you have claimed at least four days worth of rewards during the Spring Extravaganza.

• Exclusive "Champion Minsc" Skin
• A Rare "+1 CON" Feat for Celeste
• 5 Gold Chests

General Updates

Today's update includes a number of changes to Idle Champions, some of which we expect to create significant changes to the meta, including: a Formation Saves update, changes to Ultimate ability balance, a Champion Balance update, and a Level Soft Cap Increase.

Formation Saves Update

For a while now, we received requests to expand the ability to save formations from our current three save slots to reflect the changes in formations needed over the course of a run, and also allow for more flexibility to try new formation combinations.

Today we have increased the number of formations you can save from 3 to 50(!), and included an updated UI to allow players to better track individual saved formations for each of their campaigns.

For more information, including our Formation Saves FAQ, check out our Formation Saves Update Dev Blog.

Ultimate Balance Changes

Ultimate attacks will no longer have their damage increased by debuffs on enemies.

Affected abilities include, but may not be limited to: Minsc's "Go for the Eyes!" (ultimate debuff portion), Gromma's "Spiked Shell", Strix's "Poor Hygiene", Catti-brie's "Mark for Death", Donaar's "Command: Flee", Warden's "Hex", Aila's "Storm Soul/Storm Aura", Spurt's "Wa-speration: Skunky", Krull's "Plague: Pain", Minsc's "Favored Enemies", and Regis' "Ruby Weakness".

For information on the rationale behind these changes, check out our Champion Balance Update (March 2020) Dev Blog or the in-game Change Log.

Champion Balance Update

Today's update sees updates to the remaining Champions not included in last year's update to Year One Champion Balance update. Champions included in this review are Deekin Scalesinger, Ishi Snaggletooth, Dhadius the Scarlet, Krond, Hitch, Birdsong, Barrowin Undurr, Strix Beestinger, and Azaka Stormfang. Two of these Champions, Gromma and Azaka, received little-to-no changes; we are keeping our eyes on how the anticipated meta shift with this update affects these two, and we may make changes to them in the future.

For Detailed information on these changes, check out our Champion Balance Update (March 2020) Dev Blog or the in-game Change Log.

New Patron: Strahd von Zarovich

Another Patron has arrived! Count Strahd von Zarovich joins Mirt the Moneylender and The Blackstaff, Vajra Safahr, as the third Patron in Idle Champions. Those seeking to serve the Lord of Castle Ravenloft will need to unlock at least 40 Champions (including Core and Evergreen Champions) and complete the Towering Expectations adventure in the Grand Tour of the Sword Coast campaign. Once these criteria are met, players can spend 10 Rare Bounty Contracts and 20 Silver Chests to unlock Strahd von Zarovich as a Patron!

Strahd suffers no fools to run his errands. With Strahd as your Patron, only Champions with an INT score of 13+ can be used.

New Patron Familiars

New Familiars have appeared in the Patron Shops! Complete weekly challenges and Patron variants for Mirt the Moneylender, Vajra Safahr, or Strahd von Zarovich to earn your Flameskull, Spider, or Toy Werewolf Familiars.

New Patron Skins

Champions who find themselves in service of Strahd von Zarovich will have access to unique rewards, including the Vistani Regis Skin and the Vampire Catti-brie Skin through the Patron Shop.

New DLC Packs

Two new DLC Packs are now available!

The Shade Artemis Skin & Feat Pack unlocks the Artemis Shade Skin, the ‘Part Shade’ Epic Feat, 7 Gold Artemis Chests, and a Potion of Polish. It will also unlock the Artemis Entreri Champion if you don't already have them.

The Iron Pup Familiar Pack will unlock the Iron Pup Familiar, an assortment of epic potions and contracts, and two Potions of Polish.

Feedback Wanted!

These changes are scheduled to go live at approximately 9:00AM PDT on Wednesday, March 25th. 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!

Enjoy :)