History VideoGame / IdleChampionsOfTheForgottenRealms

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The character Warden is a Warforged Hexblade Warlock infested by an EldritchAbomination, and they've made their way from ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' to the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms via realmspace. They're also the only character to identify as genderless.

** Bruenor Battlehammer is an expy of Jim the Lumberjack, both being stocky bearded men who use AnAxeToGrind as their weapon of choice and are the first DPS champions you unlock. In terms of abilities, Bruenor's Inspired increases his damage for each adjacent champion just like how Jim's Buddy system did, and his Rally buffs the damage of Champions in his column just like Jim's Sharpen Party did.

** Buenor seems to be adapting a different accent
** Nyeli starts to obey Jaraxle's orders.

** Any changes you make to a Modron Core don't actually save until you close out of the core, so if an intermediate step when changing the layout ends up tanking the buffs, you're not screwed over.

** Speaking of Gold Chests, they only drop equipment for Greenhorn champions; champions from events have to rely on either their own chests or electrum chests. Feats for Event champions, on the other hand, can drop from normal gold chests instead of having to hope you get lucky with their own Gold Ghests (which have to either be bought with real money or repeatedly farmed via Time Gates--normal Gold Chests can be bought with Gems which can be farmed in-game, making them basically free).
** If you don't collect all three Gold Chests before closing a Time Gate, you'll get one or two Time Gate Pieces back. That way if you open a Time Gate and life prevents you from completing it, you're not completely screwed over.

* BalefulPolymorph: Jim Darkmagic's Wand of Wonder ability has the chance to transform enemies into weak Abyssal Chickens.

* TurtlePower:
** Gromma Nander is an elderly Tortle Druid who is not only one of the most durable Champions, she also provides good support abilities in her spell specializations.
** Krull is an evil Tortle deathpriest who infects enemies with various plagues to hinder and hurt them. As Arkhan the Cruel's close ally, he also gains the ability to buff Arkhan himself.

* BalanceBuff: Most of the twelve core champions received one to allow them to catch up with the PowerCreep that event heroes had.

** The stealthy Drow Pickpocket assassin in the Midsummer event variation Drow Deception takes this UpToEleven. If he manages to reach your formation in any way, your ''[[TotalPartyWipe entire party is killed]]'' and forced to go back a level.

** Gold chests have a "pity timer" for Epic Gear; the odds of getting a piece of Epic Gear increase witch each gold chest you don't get one, starting at 1/10 and decreasing that denominator by one each chest until you get a piece of Epic Gear, at which point the timer resets. For Event champions and their respective chests, this timer starts already decreased to 1/4, and they have their own pity timer in freeplay; if you get 3 silver chests in a row from hitting level 50 in their respective freeplay, the next chest is guaranteed to be gold.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Any changes you make to a Modron Core don't actually save until you close out of the core, so if an intermediate step when changing the layout ends up tanking the buffs, you're not screwed over.

* TheCameo: Nordom the Modron appears in the Modron Assistance Variant as the only ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' character in the game thus far.
** As of 2022, he's a playable character and is unlocked in the Modron March event.

* ColorCodedItemTiers: The progression of equipment rarity is as follows: Common (Brown), Uncommon (Green), Rare (Blue), and Epic (Purple). Furthermore, any equipment can be found as shiny (usually from buying chests via real money, but a potion of polish also works) which increases their effect by 50%, and then there's the rarer golden trait which increases their effect even more but can only be obtained by spending real money.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: The main villain for ''Waterdeep: Dragon Heist'' is The Xanathar, although the Cassalanters and Zhentarim/Manshoon do attempt to go after the treasure. It definitely can't have Jarlaxle as one of the villains since ''he's in your party''.

* YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal: In the Greengrass variant "Starve Them Out", a giant Intellect Devourer will show up as a miniboss. It has a massive amount of armored hit-based health, and makes all the other enemies invincible as long as it lives. Its maximum health (and hence the number of hits it needs) [[MaximumHPReduction is reduced by 10]] for every point of Intelligence less than 12 among your champions. For example, Minsc with 8 Intelligence will reduce its max health by 40 if he is in the party.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Aside from the starting twelve, there are also several event champions that increase the total amount of characters to over 35+.

* AdultFear: For the Wild Beyond the Witchlight adventure, Nat Jenks and Squidly all get lost (Nat is eventually found but the other two are not) worrying the champions greatly.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Jaraxle is listed as NeutralEvil even though the game uses 5th edition (where he is ChaoticNeutral) modules. He does act more chaotic neutral though.

* PrecisionFStrike: During one event, Celeste refers to Umberlee as "The Bitch Queen" which is one of Umberlee's titles. Jaraxle lampshades it of course.