this is COOL AF! "Ezmerelda's Guide to Ravenloft" Subclass Review +5.5e Update ideas on Dread Knight

Looking at a cool subclass from "Ezmerelda's Guide to Ravenloft" that I got for pre-ordering Ravenloft the Horrors Within on Roll20. It was written when Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft came out, so it's a 5e product, which gets me thinking over some ways it could work for a 5.5e character, plus considering if it would be/remain balanced with 5.5e updates and also as a 3rd party product that I'd feel good bringing to someone's table to play, and, well, much like this sentence, I fear the thinking might've gotten away from me a bit; it's an almost 2 hour discussion video, you see... In this video: 00:00 intro 00:03:06 ahead of its time... 00:03:42 The Dread Knight 00:05:45 Dread Sight (Level 3 Feature) 00:09:36 my design philosophy disclaimer 00:10:39 Ominous Presence (Level 3 Feature) 00:14:29 Rising Darkness (Level 3 Feature) 00:32:59 Reaching Darkness (Level 7 Feature) 00:37:39 Weapons of Fear (Level 7 Feature) 00:37:48 Optimizing Darkness Points Gain? 00:41:17 Death Grasp (7 Feature) 00:46:11 Instill Terror (7 Feature) 00:48:03 Obliterate (7 Feature) 00:52:00 Musings on "Balance" 01:04:56 Inexorable (Level 10 Feature) 01:09:37 Improved Weapons of Fear (Level 15 Feature) 01:14:20 Baneshadow (15 Feature) 01:20:41 areas of effect considerations 01:22:24 Ravenous Darkness (15 Feature) 01:27:54 Void Vortex (15 Feature) 01:38:06 Evernight (Level 18 Feature) 01:46:46 Final Thoughts patreon.com/cw/b100gaming #dndinspiration #fighter #subclass #shadow #dread #knight #ravenloft #horrorswithin #ezmeredla's #guide #strahd #curse #darkness #darkpowers #edgelord #pc #ideas #discussion #conversion #dndhomebrew #dnd #dnd5e #55e #onednd #tabletop #build #guide #ttrpg #5e #dragon #dungeonsanddragons #dungeon #mechanics #tech #rules #discussion #dungeontubers #character #pc #onednd #dnd2024 #dnd5.5e #dotsdontworkforhashtags