Dream Guardian/Combat

Overview The Emperor

Combat The Emperor

Overview Dream Guardian

Combat Dream Guardian

This page focuses on the Dream Guardian's behaviour during turn-based combat gameplay.

Attacks and actions

 Fleeting Dream ( + )

Surrounded by silver mist, you teleport to an unoccupied space you can see.

 Range: 18 m (60 ft)

 Main Hand Attack ()   –  Spear +2

Damage: 4~9

1d6 + 3⁠Piercing

Make a melee attack with your equipped weapon.

 Melee: 1.5 m (5 ft)

 Psionic Suggestion: Drop ()

Command a creature to drop its weapon on its turn and do nothing else.

 WIS Save

 Range: 18 m (60 ft)

 Psionic Suggestion: Flee ()

Command a creature to flee from you on its turn and do nothing else.

 WIS Save

 Range: 18 m (60 ft)

 Psionic Suggestion: Grovel ()

Command a creature to fall  Prone immediately and do nothing else.

 WIS Save

 Range: 18 m (60 ft)

 Psionic Suggestion: Halt ()

Command a creature to fall  Prone on its turn and do nothing else.

 WIS Save

 Range: 18 m (60 ft)

 Psionic Suggestion: Hush ()

 Silence a creature with a psionic command.

 WIS Save

 Range: 18 m (60 ft)

 Rush Attack ()   –  Spear +2

Damage: 4~7

1d4 + 3⁠Piercing

Charge forward and attack the first enemy in your way, possibly pushing them  Off Balance.

 STR Save

 Range: 9 m (30 ft)

 Recharge: Short rest

Tactician Only

 Mind Flayer Domination ()

Dominate a nearby humanoid. Allies are unaffected.

Each time the dominated creature takes damage, it may repeat the  Saving Throw against your domination.

 INT Save

 Range: 18 m (60 ft)

Encounter details

The Dream Guardian will only appear in combat during the final battle Atop the Netherbrain if the party chose to side with Orpheus rather than the Emperor. At the start of combat, the Emperor will summon four Dream Guardians to fight alongside him.

The Dream Guardians typically spend their turn using  Psionic Suggestion (a unique spell similar to  Command) to control the party's actions and  Fleeting Dream to reposition themselves.

Tactics

The Dream Guardians' low number of hit points make them very vulnerable to high damage spells and attacks that can take them out before they begin using  Psionic Suggestion to interfere with the party. Area of Effect spells and attacks such as  Chain Lightning or  Arrow of Many Targets can kill several of them in a single turn.

Alternatively, the party can use  Heroes' Feast before ascending the Brain Stem, since its  Advantage on Wisdom saving throws counteracts  Psionic Suggestion.

On Tactician or Honour mode, the party should be wary of summoning any Humanoid allies via  Gather Your Allies since the Dream Guardians will often attempt to gain control of them with  Mind Flayer Domination.

Notes

• Up to 4 Dream Guardians are summoned, representing the different Dream Guardians of each party member. The appearance of the first is based on the Dream Guardian that the player designed at the start of the game. However, it is not completely identical – it only shares the same race and gender.
• The remaining 3 always have the same appearances: a human with shoulder-length grey hair, a human with curly red hair, and a human with short black hair.
• Regardless of their appearances, none of them have any racial passives.

Loot

• Dreamsome Boots
• Dreamwalker Plate
• Metallic Gloves
• Spear +2