i dont see how anyone can use Lucid Dreaming to beat anyone .... can someone enlighten me?
Step 1: Go to sleep when Monk is asleep. Realize you are dreaming. DC 5 Lucid Dreaming check.
Step 2: Move into Monk's dreamscape. DC 15 Lucid Dreaming check.
Step 3a: Grapple opponent.
You do not have to pin your opponent. You only have to dodge Monk's Attack of Opportunity, land the touch attack, and beat their grapple check.
Step 3b: Before you can sustain a grapple with the Monk, the Monk kills you in the dreamscape. You wake up "immediately, with a hammering heart". Repeat Steps 1-3 until successful. Continue to Step 4.
Step 4: Make DC 25 Lucid Dreaming Check to pull you and foe into Dreamheart.
Step 4b: Before you can pull you and foe to Dreamheart, Monk makes a DC 10 Wisdom check to wake up.
Step 5: You and foe take 25 damage.
Step 6: Make a DC 20 Lucid Dreaming check to leave Dreamheart.
Step 7: Foe keeps taking 25 damage every round unless they make a DC 18 Wisdom check and wake up.
Step 8: Foe does not wake up and foe dies in the Dreamheart, dying in the real world (dying in a normal dreamscape doesn't do this). Foe cannot be brought back to life via "Resurrection" or "Raise Dead" spells.
Step 8b: Foe does wake up with successful DC 18 Wisdom check. Repeat Steps 1-8 until successful.
The only thing a Monk can do about this is see it coming and prepare somehow (Hint: The Monk we're actually fighting won't) or make a DC 18 Wisdom check. Let's be nice and assume the level 10 multiple attribute dependent Monk has 16 Wisdom and 16 Constitution. They have [9(4.5+2)+10]=68-69 hit points. This means they die in two rounds after being taken to the Dreamheart. They have a 1/4 chance of making a DC 18 Wisdom check with a +3 modifier. They have a 56% chance of failing twice in a row and thus dying. That's if they didn't wake up in the initial fight. I doubt a Monk would try to wake up from a dream of grappling someone in the first assassination attempt. Since one can change their outward appearance and a Monk can never realize they are dreaming (because that requires being trained in Lucid Dreaming), I don't think a Monk would try to wake up if an Expert approached them in a dream. They would only try waking up once said Expert tried to grapple them. I'll give 2 rounds for an Expert to establish a grapple against a Monk, meaning the Monk get's two chances to make a DC 10 Wisdom check to wake up in their regular dreamscape. They have a 65% chance to beat it, meaning a 12.2% chance to fail both times. Multiply both probabilities together (not waking up in initial grappling attempts, not waking up in Dreamheart) and we get a 6.8% chance of working.
Summary:A kill method with a success rate of 56% on the first try and a 6.8% success rate on every subsequent try.
The only point of contention is Step 2. How in the hell does one travel to the specific foe's dreamscape?