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A Grand Tour of the Sword Coast is a campaign in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms .

• 1 Formation
• 2 Adventures
• 3 Blessings

Formation [ | ]

Adventures in this campaign use the Diamond formation.

Adventures [ | ]

• A Brief Tour of the Realms - A Brief Escort through the Realms
• The Cursed Farmer – Are Ya Chicken? , Mad Cow Disease , The Contagious Curse
• The Mad Wizard – Friendly Imps , Pure Energy , Maddening
• Beast Intentions – Were-verpowered , A Persistent Buzzing , Beast Mode
• Terror in the Dark – Low Initiative , March of the Undead
• Unearthed Evil – No Time To Rest , Invisible Shadows
• Escort to Waterdeep – Close Escort , Constant Banditry , The Long Haul
• Waterdeep Detours – Lost in the Deep , Easily Distracted , Rude Welcome
• Underdeep Cartography – Overdue Rendezvous , Durable Deep , Expert Opinion
• The Silken Swamp – Wet Feet , Hatchlings Underfoot , Don't Look Up!
• Supply Run – Heavy Burden , On the Hunt , Friends of the Forest
• The Mists of Ravenloft – The Hunt for Owl-y , Werewolves in the Mist , We're not in Faerûn Anymore
• Family Entanglements – Haunted Fortunes , Poor Fortune , Relentless Misfortune
• Tower on the Lake – Only the Strong Survive , Shorty's Day Off , Intelligence Hunt
• Seeds of Deceit – Visions of Strahd , Seeds of Corruption , The Strahd Squad
• Flies on the Wall – The Killer Mists , Class Vacation , A Nod from Strahd
• Backtracking Through Barovia – Diversity Day-Trip , Late Game , Shadowfell Stalwarts
• Excavating History – Screams of the Dead , Frantic Excavation , Birds of a Feather
• Towering Expectations – Guests of the Groom , Careful Consideration , Tanking Expectations
• Who Lurks in Lurkwood – Bullywugs in the Bog , Modrons in the Mud , And a Pixie in a Pear Treant
• Orcs Are Wild – An Abyssal Situation , Dino Nightmare , A Familiar Friend
• The Sunless Citadel - Veteran Brigade , Social Grace , Evergreens with an Evergreen
• Meepo's Quest - She's Harmless! , The Tallest of Kobolds , Calcryx Tricks
• Lost in the Goblin Halls - Batiri in the Goblin Halls , Temporal Rift in the Goblin Halls , Goblin Halls: the Next Generation
• The Twilight Grove - The Nimble Grove , The Misty Grove , The Overgrown Grove
• Into the Unknown - A Tenday at Golgamann's , A Nightmare Occasion , Mental Gymnastics
• The Prison of Velkynvelve - Prisoners of Lolth , Prisoners of Unknown Choices
• Lost in the Underdark - Demons Here, Demons There , Visions of Hornfirth
• Leemooggoogoon Rises - Stragglers , Volo's Guide to Kuo-toa
• Neutral No More - Fungal Excitation , Crimson Perception
• Encroaching Madness - Watchful Eyes , Maroon Madness
• The Dark Heart - Undergeared , Underdark Chill
• The Alien Underdark - Thoughts on the Menu , Brains on Ice
• The Oozing Hunger - Levelheaded
• The Madness of Zuggtmoy - It's So Pretty
• The Cult of Lolth - Head over Heals
• The Demon Lords of the Abyss - Speed Demons
• Vecna Lives! - Overwhelmed with Knowledge , A Demi-god's Defender
• Vecna Loots! - Well Equipped , More Than Well Equipped
• Return to the Tomb - Arcane Efforts , Keep Your Distance
• Heatwave - To Avernus in a Handbasket , Hands Off!
• The Dread Domain of Tovag - Weak Doesn't Mean Feeble , Frail Doesn't Mean Broken
• The Castle of a Thousand Vecnas - Clumsy Doesn't Mean Inept , Unreasonable Doesn't Mean Stupid
• The Sanctum of the Sword - Kas the Bloody Handed
• Get Back In The Castle - Kas the Destroyer
• Checkmate - Pin and Skewer
• Vecna Out! - Bully for Vecna

Blessings [ | ]

Trivia [ | ]

Some adventures based on the D&D books:

• Curse of Strahd
• Tales from the Yawning Portal
• Out of the Abyss

CNE Grand Tour Blog Post :

• Blessings and New Adventures!
• New Champion: Drizzt Do'Urden
• New Grand Tour Variants
• Grand Tour & Tomb Variants
• The Mist of Ravenloft
• The Tower on the Lake
• New Campaign Variants
• Flies on the Wall
• Variants & QoL Update
• Core 12 Balance Update
• Enter Castle Ravenloft
• Variants Update (June 2019)
• Feats & The Grand Tour, Part 9
• Variants Update (Sept. 2019)
• The Sunless Citadel
• Variants Update (February 2020)
• Lost in the Goblin Halls
• Variants Update (May 2020)
• The Grand Tour, Part 12
• Variants Update (Jan 2021)
• The Grand Tour, Part 13
• Variants Update (May 2021)
• Summer Spectacular 2021
• The Grand Tour, Part 14
• November 2021 Variants
• Jan 5 2022 Adventure Variants Update
• Feb 16 2022 Adventure Variants
• The Grand Tour, Part 15
• April 20 2022 Adventure Variants
• The Grand Tour, Part 16
• The Grand Tour, Part 17
• August 3rd 2022 Adventure Variants & A Familiar Quest
• Fifth Anniversary Celebration
• September 21st Adventure Variants and Scotty the Rescue Pup Familiar
• The Grand Tour, Part 6b
• Winterfest & Dec 14th Adventure Variants
• The Grand Tour, Part 7b
• The Grand Tour, Part 8b
• March 29th 2023 Adventure Variants
• April 5th Adventure Variants
• The Grand Tour, Part 9b
• June 21st Adventure Variants
• December 13th Adventure Variants
• 1 Combinations
• 3 The Dark Urge

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Idle champions of the forgotten realms: d&d game explained.

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a fun game with many puzzles to solve chock full of characters from both D&D lore and the community.

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a popular free-to-play strategy game and is becoming well known among  D&D fans. The game itself is based in the Dungeons and Dragons world of Faerûn and developed by Codename Entertainment. The multiplatform game was released in 2018, initially on iOS, Android, PS4, and Xbox One. In 2020,  Idle Champions was released fully on Steam and arrived in the eShop for the Nintendo Switch.

Idle Champions brings together characters from throughout  Dungeons and Dragons lore to act as champions for the player. By collecting these champions, players can progress through various campaigns earning rewards and gear to make each new adventure a little easier each time. Champions can be acquired through a few different methods to gradually fill out a player's roster.

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Although, on the surface, a simple clicker game, Idle Champions has more depth than most games that fall into the idle category. The variety of the champions available to players aids when solving the game's various puzzles. The link to D&D lore and the wider community provides another fun aspect for newcomers and long-term fans alike.

D&D: The Basic Premise Of Idle Champions

When playing Idle Champions , players work through different D&D campaigns , which are divided into smaller adventures. Each adventure has 50 levels which then repeat with enemies getting progressively more challenging. When an adventure is completed, it unlocks the free-play version of that adventure and its particular variants.

Each campaign has a different deity whose favor must be earned in order to progress faster. Completing adventures and their related variants is how players earn favor with the various deities. This favor is then used to level up the champions quicker and provide the player with blessings. Blessings are buffs that can be applied to individual campaigns as well as universally to all campaigns.

There are currently six campaigns in Idle Champions available for players to work through. In the beginning, new players will start on "A Grand Tour of the Sword Coast," which is a broader campaign following a path down the Sword Coast as well as a  quick trip to D&D 's infamous Barovia . Other campaigns loosely follow the storyline and locations of their corresponding sourcebooks. For example, Tomb of Annihilation  takes place in Chult, whereas Baldur's Gate: Decent into Avernus drags the players into the first level of Hell.

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Initially, a player will start with 12 champions taken from throughout D&D lore and the community. Characters from campaign books, Neverwinter, and the Force Grey team are known as the 'evergreen' champions. By signing up to the Idle Champions newsletter, players will also be given a code to get a further champion: Hitch from Force Grey. Characters such as Bruenor Battlehammer and Jarlaxle from R.A. Salvatore's novels fight alongside Minsc and Boo from the Baldur's Gate series and Joe Manganiello's Arkhan the Cruel .

Other champions are obtained through Time Gates and in-game events. Free Time Gates are available approximately every three weeks, although players can open one whenever they choose if enough Time Gate pieces have been gathered. Events also run roughly every 3 weeks and allow players to obtain up to three new champions in each event. Champions from past events are available through the Time Gate at any time.

Idle Champions Is A Dungeons & Dragons Strategy Game

Each campaign in Idle Champions has its own formation layout, and it is these formations' differences that provide some of the challenges for players. Creating a good formation is key to progressing in each campaign, and working out which champions work well in which position is important. Understanding what  D&D style role each champion plays and how they will interact with the overall formation and an element of strategy to what otherwise would be a simple game. As each adventure is completed, it unlocks its variant, which offers additional challenges and puzzles for the player to solve. Some variants will take away some of the slots available in a formation, which a player will have to work around to complete the adventure. Others will limit what champions can be used by imposing restrictions based on class, party role, or stats.

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After players have progressed a certain amount in Idle Champions and have unlocked a set number of champions, Patrons become available. Patrons are an additional way to replay previous adventures and variants and provide players with new rewards and perks. Each Patron has their own set of restrictions about which champions can be used, which can provide unique challenges for players when combined with specific variants.

Idle Champions & Links To The D&D Community

Idle Champions sponsors several D&D streams on Twitch as well as running their own channel, which streams D&D and Idle Champions related content. Idle Champions works with the D&D community and its own gaming community, with many Idle Champion streams being championed by the developers. A small pop-up box appears in-game when an affiliated stream has begun allowing players to keep up to date whilst playing. Most of these streams have codes available for in-game rewards such as gold and electrum chests.

Many event champions have been added since Idle Champions first launched, and most of them are characters from D&D streams. Players can add characters from popular streams like the Waffle Crew, Critical Role , and Penny Arcade's C-Team to the roster to work alongside 'canon' characters. More recently, characters from newer and perhaps less known streams have joined the ever-growing team of champions. Characters from streams such as High Roller's Aerois , Rivals of Waterdeep , and Sirens of the Realms are all available for players. The latest additions to Idle Champions have been characters from the Oxventure Crew, with the newest, Tabaxi Rust on the Harbour, coming soon.

As Idle Champions enters its 5th year and updates are constantly being rolled out and new campaigns ahead, there is plenty to keep players busy. New adventures like the new "Trials of Mount Tiamat," asynchronous cooperative multiplayer missions, provide more challenges. However, it is Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms' links within the Dungeons & Dragons community that set it apart from other officially licensed games.

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Formations/Adventure Formations

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Summer spectacular, daily rewards, new variants, grand tour of the sword coast.

• Tomb of Annihalation
• Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

Icewind dale: rime of the frostmaiden, new dlc packs, feedback wanted.

• Freely Champion Unlock
• Exclusive Red Panda Freely Skin
• 5 Gold Chests
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Prison of Velkynvelve: Prisoners of Unknown Choices
• 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
• Only Champions with CON of 14 or higher can be used.

Tomb of Annihilation Variants

• The Guardian of Orolunga: Red Wizard 'Escort'
• 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
• 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
• Wongo - When a non-boss enemy is killed, it respawns after 5 seconds.
• Rewards 5 Modron Component Chests

Waterdeep: Dragon Heist Variants

• Building Trust: The Newcomers of Notoriety
• The fancy red pandas deal 400% additional damage. Watch out!
• Reach area 200 .
• The Dinner Party: Thine Bounty is Mine!
• If Briv is in your formation, Champions' normal attack cooldowns are decreased by .5 seconds.
• Reach area 225 .
• The Path of Dreams: The Path of Trials
• 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
• The Lost Hollyphant: Best Friend Search Squad!
• 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 .
• Dwarven Rumors: Frozen in Fear
• All Champions' normal attack cooldown is increased by 1 second, unless Havilar is in your formation.
• Rewards Red Panda Havilar Skin
• Sunblight: Hats Off to You
• While these distracting red pandas are on screen, all enemies deal 200% additional damage.
• Reach area 375 .
• Bubbles the Hollyphant Familiar Pack
• Zoonie the Hell Hound Pup Familiar Pack
• Pirate Briv & Phlo Theme Pack
• Pirate Alyndra & Griff Theme Pack

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Originally posted by Captain_Narol : The link to "Champion spotlight" doesn't work , I get that error message : "Sorry, we couldn't find any posts that matched your search."

Originally posted by Codename : - Added the new ability "Survival of the Fittest" at level 180, with buffs at levels 480 and 760. This new ability increases Krond's damage by 100% for each champion in the formation (multiplicative) who is either Evil or has a STR score of 16+

Originally posted by Crommir : I'd hold my breath before bashing nu-Krond. His new ability seems promising (Run a simple test with the new mission "Tower of the Lake" and his self buff was, at a given moment, around e6 when all others were e5). It's like when Farideh came out, at first people were already complaing that she would be useless, and at the end she proved useful for many players (myself included). Can't wait for the nu-Arkhan release! Keep up the good work CNE!

Originally posted by LostSoul : That's simply not the case. Outside a challenge mission or two, Farideh is still weaker than an inferior equipped Strix...because Strix works with Barrowin. Farideh does not. Strix can attack/defend the entire front line. Farideh cannot. Krond is in the exact same boat. Aside from a challenge mission or two (which he was already on the roster for lack of any other options) he will remain benched. Because formation buffs are just that stupidly powerful.

Originally posted by LostSoul : Originally posted by Crommir : I'd hold my breath before bashing nu-Krond. His new ability seems promising (Run a simple test with the new mission "Tower of the Lake" and his self buff was, at a given moment, around e6 when all others were e5). It's like when Farideh came out, at first people were already complaing that she would be useless, and at the end she proved useful for many players (myself included). Can't wait for the nu-Arkhan release! Keep up the good work CNE!

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