Originally Posted by OcO
Originally Posted by ldo58
Originally Posted by Blackheifer
The dream sequence occurs after you long rest twice and in between each you used your Illithid powers at least once.


1. Use Illithid Powers
2. Long rest 1 "Where are you?"
3. Use Illithid powers
4. 1st Full Dream sequence
5. Use Illithid Powers
6. Second full dream sequence

No when you use the ilithid power, there's no automatic dream sequence the next long rest. It can take several long rests, using many IP before it triggers. In my current PT I use the power as much as possible, because I'm curious to see how the dreams evolve. I don't care if the player turns into a mind flayer. I'm trying out the palladin and can't really connect to it, so it's ideal for this kind of experiment.

So I also wanted to give the dream person maximum access to my mind and avoid all resistance, and it's really annoying that the choices in the 3rd dream were phrased in such a way that I chose the opposite of what I wanted to do. "resist the violent thoughts" and the result was that the player tried to strangle the dream person. Grrr......
And now there's no way back to choose otherwise unless I go through that complete goblin camp battle again.

Blackheifer is right, but when they say "Use Illithid Powers" they mean... Use Illithid Dialogue Option".
You have to use the tadpole wisdom option in dialogue and then LR. Each use will trigger a different dream sequence starting with the vocal only "Where are you?". After you have used the tadpole wisdom option enough times you will get the tadpole class specific abilities. Using those class abilities does NOT cause dreams, it may or may not count toward whatever badness is going to happen eventually but as of yet in EA we don't know.

Again no, this is not my experience. I used the illithid conversation option (which changes name to "absolute" option after a while) on about every possible occasion in the game. In the wilderness, the blighted village, the goblin camp, but also with Gale, Astarion and Lae'zel. I also had many long rests, and there is no automatic dream scene during LR after choosing the illithid tadpole to enter the mind of an oppenent during conversation. It may take several mind probes and LR before a dream triggers.

Last edited by ldo58; 17/02/23 05:09 PM.