Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a free-to-play idle game developed by Codename Entertainment. It was released for early access on September 7, 2017.

DescriptionEdit

The core gameplay of Idle Champions revolves around the player selecting "champions" (such as Bruenor, Minsc, and Celeste, among others) to fight waves of increasingly difficult monsters, thereby accumulating gold. This gold is used to upgrade the player's champions, or unlock new ones. The individual champions have both strengths and weaknesses, often improving other champions that meet various criteria. The player needs to figure out a "formation" to place these champions in to ensure progress can be made against higher-level waves of monsters. As players complete objectives, or reset their current adventure, they accumulate "Favor" with a specific deity, which increases the amount of gold they find in subsequent sessions. Furthermore, players can collect items that permanently boost their champions further, either as random drops, or through purchasing "chests" filled with random items.

The game is segmented into several "campaigns", each with its own unique Favor, ensuring progress does not carry over between campaigns. Each campaign has a unique formation pattern, forcing players to rethink how to arrange their champions. Some of the campaigns are permanent, while others are event-based and only available for a short time. These event campaigns often reward unique champions that are only available to unlock during their respective events. All the campaigns are further divided into "adventures", which are narrative frames for the core gameplay, for example recounting how the player's champions help a farmer rescue a farmer's daughter who has been kidnapped by werewolves. Most adventures also have additional challenge modes, unlocked after meeting various criteria. These challenge modes present the player with new obstacles to overcome, for example through limiting the champions available to choose from.

IndexEdit

CharactersEdit

Lore champions

Asharra • Azaka Stormfang • Barrowin Undurr • Birdsong • Bruenor Battlehammer • Catti-brie • Celeste • Deekin Scalesinger • Delina • Dhadius • Dragonbait • Drizzt Do'Urden (and Guenhwyvar) • Farideh • Hitch • Jarlaxle Baenre • Makos • Minsc (and Boo) • Nayeli Goldflower • Nerys Kathon • Regis • Ulkoria Stonemarrow • Wulfgar

Original champions

Gromma Nander • Krond • Nrakk • Stoki • Warden • Zorbu Natten

Stream champions

Arkhan • Binwin Bronzebottom • Calliope • Diath Woodrow • Donaar Blit'zen • Evelyn Marthain • Ishi Snaggletooth • Jamilah • K'thriss Drow'b • Paultin Seppa • Strix • Tyril

Foes

Acererak • Arvaiss • Baggy Nana • Bailiearyl Tavebent • Brave Baker of Triboar • Chotyn • Cutpurse Prince • Daring Dwarf of Dessarin • Doru • Eye of Gruumsh • Fenthaza • Hero of the Vale • Heroine of Longsaddle • Kenda • King of Feathers • Lif • Menace of Morgur's Mound • Nanny Pu'pu • Nihiloor • Nim • Noska Ur'gray • Ott Steeltoes • Peggy Deadbells • Ras Nsi • Shifty Saradac • Strahd von Zarovich • Tzindelor • Urstul Floxin • Valindra Shadowmantle • Widow Groat • Withers • Zariel

Other

Agracon • Amber Strakeln • Arabelle • Artus Cimber • Bag of Nails • Barok Clanghammer • Beirn • Boderik Hearthtender • Chadwick • Davian Martikov • Donavich • Durnan • Ellis • Elminster Aumar • Ezmerelda d'Avenir • Heiley • Hew Hackinstone • Hoistsail • Hurf • Ireena Kolyana • Ishmakahl • Ismark Kolyanovich • Ivor Bakovski • Jarl • Kara Bakovski • Kasimir Velikov • Kaylaar Allun • Jenks • Laeral Silverhand • Lazlo • Luvash • Lyari • Madam Eva • Manfred Wagonweaver • Meilee • Mirt • Nat • Needle • Nordom • Orvex Ocrammas • Pavel Nonov • Randal Amberwood • Renaer Neverember • Saja N'baza • Sekelok • Sibonseni • Slarin • Squiddly • Thaddeus • Tollin • Ukurlahmu • Ulkoria Stonemarrow • Vajra Safahr • Valetta • Vanessa • Victoro Cassalanter • Volothamp Geddarm • Vorn • Waldo • Wrerdor • Xopal • Yorb • Ziraj • Zitembe • Zook Timbers

Referenced only

Adolican Rhand • Ahghairon • Alisanda Rayburton • Arikas • Aubrin Crownsilver • Baba Lysaga • Beornegar • Bidderdoo Harpell • Courageous Kobold of Cold Keep • Dagult Neverember • Dahl Peredur • Dalakhar • Deniak • Floon Blagmaar • Galor Rockshield • Hadar • Halaster Blackcloak • Havilar • Ingeloakastimizilian • Kale Kobold King • Khorsaya • Kolyan Indirovich • Lorcan • Maldwyn Daggerford • Mwaxanaré • Na • Pandorym • Piscaethces • Rishaal • Rudolph van Richten • Sergei von Zarovich • Szass Tam • Tam Zawad • Tatyana • Tymofarrar • Zaerith Menyar-Ag-Gith • Zaknafein Do'Urden

CreaturesEdit

aarakocra • aldani • almiraj • assassin vine • atropal • axe beak • azer • banshee • basilisk • bat • bear (grizzly) • blight (needle, tree, twig, vine) • boar • bugbear • bullywug • carrion crawler • cat • chitine • chwinga • cow • crab (giant) • crawling claw • crocodile • decaton • deinonychus • devil (barbed, bearded) • devourer • dimetrodon • dog (blink, death, mastiff) • doppelganger • dragon (blue, bronze, faerie, red) • dragonborn • dretch • dryad • duck • duodrone • dwarf (duergar, gold, shield, tomb) • eladrin • elemental (air, fire) • elder brain • elf (drow, dusk, moon) • firbolg • firefly • fish • flumph • flying monkey • froghemoth • galeb duhr • gargoyle • gazer • gelatinous cube • ghast • ghost • ghoul (shadow) • giant (frost, hill) • giant bee • giant caterpillar • giant centipede • giant fire beetle • giant fly • giant frog • gibbering mouther • girallon • githyanki • githzerai • gnoll • gnome (rock) • goat • goblin (batiri) • golem (clay, flesh, stone) • grung • hag (green, night) • half-elf • half-orc • halfling • harpy • hobgoblin • horse • human • hydra • imp • intellect devourer • jaculi • kamadan • kenku • knucklehead trout • kobold • kraken • lich (arch) • lizardfolk • mephit (ice, magma, mud, steam) • mimic • mind flayer • mindwitness • miniature giant space hamster • minotaur • monodrone • mouse • naga (bone • guardian) • nimblewright • nothic • ogre • orc • owlbear • panther • parrot • pegasus • pentadrone • pixie • plesiosaurus • pseudodragon • pterafolk • quadrone • quaggoth • quasit • quetzalcoatlus • rabbit • rat (cranium, giant) • raven • revenant • salamander • satyr • saurial • scarecrow • sea spawn • seagull • shadow • shambling mound • shield guardian • skeleton • skunk • snake (fire, flying) • specter • spider (giant, giant wolf, tarantula) • sprite • stegosaurus • stone juggernaut • su-monster • succubus • tabaxi • tiefling • tiger • tomb guardian • tortle • treant • tri-flower frond • triceratops • tridrone • troll (ice) • tyrannosaurus • ultroloth • umber hulk • vampire (spawn) • vegepygmy • velociraptor • vrock • vulture • warforged • werebear • wereboar • wererat • wereraven • weretiger • werewolf • wight • will-o'-wisp • wolf (dire, winter) • wood woad • worg • wraith • yellow musk creeper • yeti • yuan-ti (abomination, broodguard, malison, pureblood) • zombie • zorbo

Referenced only

alligator • asp • beholder • black pudding • decapus • earth elemental • genasi • Gulthias tree • lobster • mole • porcupine • quipper • raptor • shark • unicorn • white dragon

EventsEdit

Ahghairon's Day • Brightswords • Dragondown • Fair Seas Festival • Feast of the Moon • Festival of Fools • Fleetswake • Founders' Day • Grand Revel • Great Modron March • Greengrass • Highharvestide • Liars' Night • Midsummer • Midwinter • Running of the Saurs • Simril • The Running • Wintershield

Referenced only

Day of Wonders • Shieldmeet • Spellplague • The Retreat

LocationsEdit

Buildings & Sites

Blackstaff Tower • Bent Nail • Book Wyrm's Treasure • Cassalanter Villa • Fane of the Night Serpent • Field of Triumph • Gralhund Villa • Grand Coliseum • Grand Souk • Hall of Gold • House of the Crocodile • Orolunga • Queenspire • Temple of Gond (Waterdeep) • Temple of Savras (Port Nyanzaru) • Tomb of the Nine Gods • Trollskull Manor • Wizard of Wines • Wyrmheart Mine

Inns & Taverns

Blood of the Vine • Skewered Dragon • Wayside Inn • Yawning Portal

Districts

Castle Ward • City of the Dead • Dock Ward • Field Ward • North Ward • Sea Ward • South Ward

Roads

Blackford road • High Road • Triboar Trail • Trollskull Alley

Settlements

Barovia (village) • Camp Righteous • Camp Vengeance • Daggerford • Hornfirth • Kir Sabal • Longsaddle • Mbala • Omu • Port Castigliar • Port Nyanzaru • Shilku • Skeefan • Triboar • Waterdeep • Yartar • Yellyark

Rivers

River Soshenstar

Wilderness

Aldani Basin • Ataaz Kahakla • Grandfather Tree • Heart of Ubtao • High Forest • Mere of Dead Men • Needle's Bones • Neverwinter Wood • Shilku Bay • Sword Mountains • Trollbark Forest • Tserl Falls

Regions

Barovia • Chult • Sword Coast • Underdark

Planes

Demiplane of Dread • Prime Material plane

Referenced only

Abyss • Ahoyhoy • Amber Temple • Amn • Amphail • Avernus • Baldur's Gate • Bay of Chult • Beorunna's Well • Calimport • Candlekeep • Castle Ravenloft • Chessenta • Citadel Felbarr • Copper Cup • Cyre • Dessarin River • Dessarin Valley • Djerad Kethendi • Durpar • Evermoors • Feywild • Fireshear • Fort Beluarian • Gauntlgrym • Grandfather Tree • Great Worm Cavern • Gundarlun • Gundbarg • Helm's Hold • High Forest • Icewind Dale • Ironmaster • Karse • Kelvin's Cairn • Kingdom of Many-Arrows • Lantan • Laughingflow • Limbo • Long Road • Lurkwood • Luskan • Mechanus • Menzoberranzan • Mezro • Mirabar • Mistcliff Mountains • Mithral Hall • Morgur's Mound • Mount Hotenow • Neverwinter • Nine Hells • One Stone • Orolunga • Peaks of Flame • Raven Rock • Reghed Glacier • River Olung • River Rauvin • River Surbrin • Sea of Moving Ice • Secomber • Sembia • Settlestone • Shining Sea • Shipwright's House • Sigil • Silverymoon • Snapping Turtle Bay • Snout of Omgar • Southwood • Spine of the World • Star Mounts • Steam and Steel • Strakeln & Timbers General Goods and Curious Oddities • Sundabar • Ten-Towns • Thay • Thornhold • Umberlee's Cache • Undermountain • Unicorn Run • Vallaki • Wild Coast • Xxiphu • Zakhara

MagicEdit

Magic items

Aegis-fang • alchemy jug • amulet of the planes • bag of tricks • boots of elvenkind • boots of spider climbing • Dragonstaff of Ahghairon • figurine of wondrous power • silver sword • Icingdeath • immovable rod • ioun stone (of awareness • of wisdom) • mask of the beast • necklace of fireballs • periapt of wound closure • piwafwi • quiver of Anariel • ring of devouring • ring of fire elemental command • ring of mind shielding • ring of protection • ring of regeneration • rope of entanglement • short sword of backstabbing • Taulmaril • The Teeth of Hadar • Thunderbolt • Twinkle • winged boots

Spells

banishing smite • chromatic orb • circle of death • cloak of flies • cure wounds • eldritch blast • eldritch smite • find steed • fire bolt • fireball • flame strike • guiding bolt • healing word • hellish rebuke • hex • hunger of Hadar • ice storm • locate object • mage hand • magic missile • mass cure wounds • moonbeam • periapt of wound closure • plane shift • remove curse • scorching ray • shatter • shield of faith • shocking grasp • simulacrum • spiritual weapon • sunbeam • thunderclap • time gate

Other

death curse

Referenced only

animal friendship • Ring of Winter • Stone of Golorr • Sunsword • turn undead

OrganizationsEdit

Arcane Brotherhood • Bidderdoo • Bregan D'aerthe • Cassalanter • Clan Battlehammer • Clan Undurr • Companions of the Hall • Cult of the Dragon • Griffon Cavalry • Guild of Watermen • Harpell • Harpers • Heroes of Baldur's Gate • House Zolond • Keepers of the Feather • Lords of Waterdeep • Order of the Even-Handed • Order of the Gauntlet • Red Fellowship • Red Wizards of Thay • Tarlain • Tree Ghost Tribe • Tribe of the Elk • Uthgardt • Vistani • Watchful Order of Magists and Protectors • Waterdeep Guard • Xanathar's Thieves' Guild • Zhentarim

Referenced only

Clan Verthisathurgiesh • Dripping Fang • Gralhund • Shadovar • Weeping Friars

ReligionsEdit

Campaign Deities

Helm • Kelemvor • Torm

Event Deities

Asmodeus • Auril • Azuth • Chauntea • Gond • Jergal • Lathander • Leira • Lliira • Mystra • Oghma • Rillifane • Savras • Shar • Sune • Tempus • Umberlee • Waukeen

Other Deities

Beshaba • Clangeddin • Cyric • Dendar • Dumathoin • Gorm Gulthyn • Gruumsh • Maegera • Maglubiyet • Moradin • Nine Trickster Gods of Omu (I'jin • Kubazan • Moa • Nangnang • Obo'laka • Papazotl • Shagambi • Unkh • Wongo) • Red Knight • Selûne • Talona • Tiamat • Tyr • Ubtao

Referenced only

Nanna-Sin • Sharess • Yeenoghu

VesselsEdit

Types

astral brig • galleon

Named vessels

Narwhal • Second Sun • Snapping Maiden • Umberlee's Promise

MiscellaneousEdit

Armor

breastplate • chain mail • leather armor • plate mail • scale mail • studded leather

Beverages

ale • wine

Books

Cyrinishad • How to Kiss Better • Red Bess and the Kelpie's Regret • The Prince of Al-Qadim • Volo's Guide to Chult • Volo's Guide to Lycanthropy • Volo's Guide to Monsters

Food

cheese • firemint • kabob • pepperoni • salmon • waffle

Fungi

bluecap • ripplebark • waterorb

Gemstones

amethyst • bloodstone • fire opal • pearl • ruby • sapphire • sunstone

Instruments

lute • zither

Materials

adamantine • calcite • copper • gold • iron • leather • mica • mithral • obsidian • onyx • pearl • serpentine stone • silk • silver • steel • tin • velvet • wool

Languages

Common • Deep Speech • Draconic • Thayan • Undercommon

Plants

arrowroot • moss • palm • pumpkin • ryath root • sinda berry • wheat • wildroot • wukka nut

Substances

alchemist's fire • shea nut butter • unholy water • water

Tools

compass • nimblewright detector • spyglass

Weapons

axe • battleaxe • bow • crossbow • dagger • greataxe • greatsword • longbow • mace • naginata • rapier • scimitar • short sword • sling • spear • staff • warhammer

Other

dragon (coin) • lycanthropy • taol

Referenced only

cider • Dragondew • honeysuckle • mayonnaise • tea • violet

AppendixEdit

NotesEdit

Further ReadingEdit

• Matt Chapman (2017-10-31). Click or Die! The Rise of Idle Champions (Web). In Matt Chapman, Bart Carroll eds. Dragon+ 16. Wizards of the Coast. p. 12. Retrieved on 2018-05-23.
• Matt Chapman (2018-12-06). Idle Chatter (Web). In Matt Chapman, Bart Carroll eds. Dragon+ 23. Wizards of the Coast. p. 8. Retrieved on 2018-12-08.

External LinksEdit

• Official site
• Announcement
• Steam page
• Idle Champions Wiki
• Idle Champions Wikia
• Wizards Of The Coast page

ConnectionsEdit