Thanks Lone Adventurer for running this game through to your first Overseer! I know I've had a lot of fun watching and playing it for myself! My first Overseer (Infernal Archon) also almost killed me, but I managed to see it through. The Infernal Archon can also summon minions (I have no idea what they were supposed to be able to do, I just had them make physical combat checks and deal d6 fire damage on a hit), but luckily that was close to the end and I kill the Overseer and decided that his minions scatter. I HIGHLY recommend for first time encounters with an Overseer to bring a weapon that deals Bludgeoning damage, it'll let you ignore that 1 Armor they have on each body part and then your damage rolls are what they are. Another thing I've been doing is to focus my level ups on improving Magic Resistance, cause then you get to say "NO!" to Overseer and other monster attacks more often. The last thing I've done in my game that I've found really helpful is that I sold my first Relic to the first Trader I found, and bought a Backpack, 3 Pouches, a Crowbar, and any armor pieces I hadn't found naturally yet (I had some 300 gold with me too at the time). Granted, you have to play for awhile to find both a Relic and a Trader, but I found it to be worth it. Though don't sell Ring of Arcane Tempest, that thing kills Overseers if it fails its Magic Resistance check and you roll somewhat lucky.
Thanks for your tips! A bludgeoning weapon definitely sounds like it could be handy, and I think increasing magical resistance in some way is basically essential! I'm gonna definitely be getting some more kit as well befoer I try and tackle the overseer again.
This was a lot of fun, haha. You did forget to mark a few skills for improvement, since you rolled a few doubles! And you should have used your Tier 1 Hexmancer ability on the Hexmancer itself, and focus your attacks on it, I think. This Overseer is super easy to deal with if you have a higher Magic Resistance, but yeah, terrible at the beginning of your journey! I do realize that I should have explained better how the dopplegangers work, and they might be a bit overpowered. They are supposed to mirror the Overseer's actions, so they don't make their own rolls. Thanks once again for this video series, it's been a real pleasure watching it!
Hey, Alex. I'm confused by this. If the dopplegangers don't make their own rolls, what do they do? Are you saying they literally do what the Overseer does so if the Overseer does a Reality flux then the dopplegangers do the same thing? Wow! So you could have like 4 dopplegangers all casting Mystic Gaze at the same time! Ouch! I'm having a lot of fun running through this game as well. Thanks, Alex.
@@RPGFrequencies yes, they do the same as the Veilshifter, but on their own turn, not simultaneously. In any case, I think I need to specify that each doppleganger only has a single action, not 3 as the Veilshifter does.
@@blackoathentertainmentyour feedback and comments on this series of videos is so helpful and I've been making lots of notes on the margins of my book... I like to think of these additions as stuff my character has learned along the way and is making note of. Re the single action for the doppelganger versus the three of the Veilshifter - will each doppelganger mirror the first action of the Veilshifter, a random action, or will each doppelganger mirror a different action? Will you be releasing errata/notes on your website with all these points and excellent clarification, or perhaps in a future zine?
@@jay_cadiramen if you check the PDF, it's been updated to v1.2, and it contains most of these errata and clarifications (although not everything, simply because of a lack of space). After a lot of thinking, I've decided to rebalance how the Doppelganger ability works: "Doppelganger Surge: The Veilshifter summons illusory doppelgangers that support it in combat. Two doppelgangers appear near the Veilshifter and use its Illusory Mirage action immediately on themselves. These doppelgangers last until they’ve been struck once, and only act once per round each. In their turn, a doppelganger makes a physical attack against a target, dealing 2D4 Psychic damage if landing a strike."
"I think I can escape while I'm prone," is the kind of sentence that suggests things are not going swell. Hah. Right up there with, "Wait, how many damage dice?"
Really enjoyed watching and running through my own series right now using some online tools. I'm doing the actual first domain so nothing to report yet other than defeating some Blightfang Rats! Thanks so much for posting these. I've truly enjoyed them.
Another fantastic video and i never want this series to end. Watching you play is just as much fun as playing through myself, especially with the addition of an the notes and clarification by the designer as well
I wish that I could but I only have time to film so many videos and I want to cover some other games 🙂 I'm toying with the idea of improving Antonio off-camera and then filming a second attempt at taking on the overseer!
Thank you for this vid, I got to buy my copy and started playing it but after 10+ hours the grind is getting to me so I added some House Rules to speed it up. -I added +20 more whenever you gain experience -Eventhough you get +10exp for successfully dismantling traps I had 0 Thievery, so I added +10exp for successfully dodging traps So I got +30exp for those instead -I rolled twice on enemy spoils and resources excluding overseers. So I can get more variety of items quicker. -After rolling Lair check or Tension check, if it doesn't go down one die then I roll one more time. I think I've got a lot of fun this way, so if anyone's interested you can try this.
This was a fantastic playthrough and definitely helped me along with my first attempt at playing. Its alot of fun amd you can create a good story as you progress along the first zine that was released is a really good addition
Hello, found your channel when I was looking up Notorious, really enjoyed this series and going to grab a copy of the game. I'm off to check out your other videos. 😊
Really good solo series, many thanks. Partiularly enjoy your mechanics based sessions. For some channels who do solo actual plays it ends up feeling like I'm listening to an audio book rather than an actual play! Thats a solid "subscribe" from me and looking forward to checking out your other series.
Thanks for the sub! And I know what you mean - I'm not really down with very 'narrative focused' playthroughs - as you say, can end up feeling like you're listening to an audiobook (though sometimes I'm jealous of their sound effects, etc.)!
@@lone_adventurer Well, thanks for the reply and the job you do (Hollywood special effects aside!). Your style helps me check out playthroughs of games I'm not too familiar with....although I'll probably go straight for Notorious as anything that can be twisted to a Star Wars theme has got to be good!
Hi, my grandson found my son D&D collection from 35 plus years ago. So he together with his friends on weekends. I believe my son says they're using more up-to-date rules? I picked up this solo K.N. game version so I'd at least a slight idea of what he's talking about. I think I'll have to run through your videos at least 1 or 2 more time to have confidence before trying a solo game. But it does look interesting. If it wasn't for your video, I'd be totally lost. Thanks for taking the time to post it.
Great play thru. Question at 11.39 when you rolled a 2D6 you rolled a 6 and 4. The damage chart shows damage up to 10+ so wouldn't the 6+4 =10 Die Roll = 4 Damage instead of the 2 and 1 damage total of 3? I am not sure why the chart would go beyond 6 die roll if only to be considered individually....unless different enemies would use D10 or D20 dice.
Yeah I'm not sure why the chart goes higher, but I'm definitely doing the damage calculation correctly. The system often strikes people as a little strange, so you can find Alex, the designer, all over the place restating that this is how it works - including in the comments on one of these videos somewhere! Thanks for watching!
This is also the first rpg for me and I just started today. Do you know if there are good Solos in a Cyberpunk or modern (Something like Stargate) setting or Solo rules for CP Red? And do you have a few tips for games that doesn't give you scenarios? I really have problems to imagine something from a few bullet points while at the same time being very good at condensing a lot of text into just a few words
Hi there! First off, it might be that Ker Nethalas is quite a challenging one to start playing RPGs with, solo or otherwise. Might be that you're fine with it, but something to bear in mind! Now I'm not the best person to ask about playing games without scenarios, since I have not done a whole lot of 'true solo RPG play'. It is worth checking out Geek Gamers intro to solo RPG play. Maybe The Dungeon Dive's series on Mork Borg solo, any of the playthroughs by Chaoclypse give a good non-intimidating demo of how it's done. Best of luck!
When you find the exit, that acts as the entrance to a new domain with a new overseer. Rinse and repeat. I'm not sure if the designer has plans to allow characters to eventually leave Ker Nathalas and return to the world above...
For now you just keep exploring, getting more powerful, completing your Personal Goals, and basically just exploring the place. I do intend to expand the game with different types of environment, but I still have lots of stories to tell down in the Necropolis, and I plan on shaking things up there so it's not just dungeon delving.
@@blackoathentertainment well doesn't that sound intriguing! Are you gonna keep with the zine supplement format or are you plan something more chunky? I realise I may be cheekily asking for an exclusive here 😉
@@lone_adventurer I'll keep releasing zines with extra rules, Domains, monsters, items, etc. But the type of content that will change how the game is played will get its own expansions. I don't know how chunky they'll be because I only have notes for now (I'm working on other games at the moment), but definitely larger than a zine!
@@blackoathentertainment cool! And yeah, I know you're working on other stuff, since you always are, but also because I'm keeping an eye on Ruthless Heavens - that one looks super intriguing and the art is really drawing me in.
I got Gorehof and it has 2 extra attacks as well. It was impossible for him to kill me and I couldnt kill him either. Why? He got -20 to combat skills (due to my magic gloves and one of my abilities). So was hard for him to hit. And i couldnt kill him because one of the abilities was healing. Having 3 actions wss hard because he always healed 😢
Those overseers are brutal; I'm glad its not just me that found that! Honestly, I think they might be too crazy. Even with 1-2 actions, I reckon they are pretty hard!
![[Ker Nethalas] [ep 01] A necropolis crawler movie!](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YlFf2sSLi8k/mqdefault.jpg)
Thanks Lone Adventurer for running this game through to your first Overseer! I know I've had a lot of fun watching and playing it for myself! My first Overseer (Infernal Archon) also almost killed me, but I managed to see it through. The Infernal Archon can also summon minions (I have no idea what they were supposed to be able to do, I just had them make physical combat checks and deal d6 fire damage on a hit), but luckily that was close to the end and I kill the Overseer and decided that his minions scatter.
I HIGHLY recommend for first time encounters with an Overseer to bring a weapon that deals Bludgeoning damage, it'll let you ignore that 1 Armor they have on each body part and then your damage rolls are what they are. Another thing I've been doing is to focus my level ups on improving Magic Resistance, cause then you get to say "NO!" to Overseer and other monster attacks more often. The last thing I've done in my game that I've found really helpful is that I sold my first Relic to the first Trader I found, and bought a Backpack, 3 Pouches, a Crowbar, and any armor pieces I hadn't found naturally yet (I had some 300 gold with me too at the time). Granted, you have to play for awhile to find both a Relic and a Trader, but I found it to be worth it. Though don't sell Ring of Arcane Tempest, that thing kills Overseers if it fails its Magic Resistance check and you roll somewhat lucky.
Thanks for your tips! A bludgeoning weapon definitely sounds like it could be handy, and I think increasing magical resistance in some way is basically essential! I'm gonna definitely be getting some more kit as well befoer I try and tackle the overseer again.
This excellent game and your excellent series has inspired me! This will be my first TTRPG of any kind! Can't wait to try it for myself! Thanks!
Brilliant - I hope you enjoy it!!
I'm honored that you've chosen my game to be your first attempt at RPGs! I hope you enjoy it!
I second that thought, this will be my first as well. Stoked to check it out
This was a lot of fun, haha. You did forget to mark a few skills for improvement, since you rolled a few doubles! And you should have used your Tier 1 Hexmancer ability on the Hexmancer itself, and focus your attacks on it, I think. This Overseer is super easy to deal with if you have a higher Magic Resistance, but yeah, terrible at the beginning of your journey! I do realize that I should have explained better how the dopplegangers work, and they might be a bit overpowered. They are supposed to mirror the Overseer's actions, so they don't make their own rolls. Thanks once again for this video series, it's been a real pleasure watching it!
Hey, Alex. I'm confused by this. If the dopplegangers don't make their own rolls, what do they do? Are you saying they literally do what the Overseer does so if the Overseer does a Reality flux then the dopplegangers do the same thing? Wow! So you could have like 4 dopplegangers all casting Mystic Gaze at the same time! Ouch! I'm having a lot of fun running through this game as well. Thanks, Alex.
@@RPGFrequencies yes, they do the same as the Veilshifter, but on their own turn, not simultaneously. In any case, I think I need to specify that each doppleganger only has a single action, not 3 as the Veilshifter does.
Thanks again, Alex. Appreciate your comments and your excellent game!
@@blackoathentertainmentyour feedback and comments on this series of videos is so helpful and I've been making lots of notes on the margins of my book... I like to think of these additions as stuff my character has learned along the way and is making note of.
Re the single action for the doppelganger versus the three of the Veilshifter - will each doppelganger mirror the first action of the Veilshifter, a random action, or will each doppelganger mirror a different action?
Will you be releasing errata/notes on your website with all these points and excellent clarification, or perhaps in a future zine?
@@jay_cadiramen if you check the PDF, it's been updated to v1.2, and it contains most of these errata and clarifications (although not everything, simply because of a lack of space). After a lot of thinking, I've decided to rebalance how the Doppelganger ability works: "Doppelganger Surge: The Veilshifter summons illusory doppelgangers that support it in combat. Two doppelgangers appear near the Veilshifter and use its Illusory Mirage action immediately on themselves. These doppelgangers last until they’ve been struck once, and only act once per round each. In their turn, a doppelganger makes a physical attack against a target, dealing 2D4 Psychic damage if landing a strike."
"I think I can escape while I'm prone," is the kind of sentence that suggests things are not going swell. Hah. Right up there with, "Wait, how many damage dice?"
Haha, yeah - definitely not a statement that inspires any kind of confidence!
Really enjoyed watching and running through my own series right now using some online tools. I'm doing the actual first domain so nothing to report yet other than defeating some Blightfang Rats! Thanks so much for posting these. I've truly enjoyed them.
Glad you enjoyed the videos! I sometimes think I should have started out with the beginner domain - seems there are some advantages to doing so.
Another fantastic video and i never want this series to end. Watching you play is just as much fun as playing through myself, especially with the addition of an the notes and clarification by the designer as well
I have a blast watching these videos as well!
This was really fun to see Ker Nethalas, so much so that I get one for myself!
Great - hope you enjoy it!
pls keep playing this game 😢
I wish that I could but I only have time to film so many videos and I want to cover some other games 🙂
I'm toying with the idea of improving Antonio off-camera and then filming a second attempt at taking on the overseer!
@@lone_adventurer That would be cool
Doppelgangers... Realy more doppelgangers. The despair😂😂. You were realy hard on yourself there... fun to watch though👍
Yeah there was a bit of despair 😂 honestly I cut out a couple of bits because I sounded too grumpy!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Grabbed the PDF this morning and looking forward to giving it a spin sometime after my current solo S&W campaign.
Thank you for this vid, I got to buy my copy and started playing it but after 10+ hours the grind is getting to me so I added some House Rules to speed it up.
-I added +20 more whenever you gain experience
-Eventhough you get +10exp for successfully dismantling traps I had 0 Thievery, so I added +10exp for successfully dodging traps
So I got +30exp for those instead
-I rolled twice on enemy spoils and resources excluding overseers. So I can get more variety of items quicker.
-After rolling Lair check or Tension check, if it doesn't go down one die then I roll one more time.
I think I've got a lot of fun this way, so if anyone's interested you can try this.
Nice! I can see how those adjustments would speed things up - thanks for sharing!
Wow, that was a brutal overseer for level 1! I feel like the only way you could beat him is either with summoned companions or AOE attacks.
Yeah it did feel like a doomed encounter pretty much from the start! I'll have to tool up in some way before I go back in there!
Feeding the algorithm hordes.
Finally through this playlist - aaaand now another one on the wishlist.
Lone adventurer you monster
Thank you for feeding the algorithm and apologies for my monstrous acts 😁
I've watched this entire playlist.. thanks for introducing Ker Nethalas to me. i just purchased a copy from amazon thanks to you. cheers!
You're welcome, hope you enjoy the game!
That was an interesting look at Ker Nethalas. Definitely looking forward to getting into it myself, even if it means dying a lot. 😂
Was hoping you would defeat the Overseer. Hope you can come back and get him next time. Enjoyed this series!
Me too! Alas, wasn't meant to be 🙂
This was a fantastic playthrough and definitely helped me along with my first attempt at playing. Its alot of fun amd you can create a good story as you progress along the first zine that was released is a really good addition
Glad you found it helpful! Yeah I need to get myself a copy of the magazine...
@@lone_adventurer it's really good it has a few more domains to explore a few optional rules and some interesting enemies
Hello, found your channel when I was looking up Notorious, really enjoyed this series and going to grab a copy of the game. I'm off to check out your other videos. 😊
Whoop whoop! Welcome and I hope you enjoy my other videos!
Really good solo series, many thanks. Partiularly enjoy your mechanics based sessions. For some channels who do solo actual plays it ends up feeling like I'm listening to an audio book rather than an actual play! Thats a solid "subscribe" from me and looking forward to checking out your other series.
Thanks for the sub! And I know what you mean - I'm not really down with very 'narrative focused' playthroughs - as you say, can end up feeling like you're listening to an audiobook (though sometimes I'm jealous of their sound effects, etc.)!
@@lone_adventurer Well, thanks for the reply and the job you do (Hollywood special effects aside!). Your style helps me check out playthroughs of games I'm not too familiar with....although I'll probably go straight for Notorious as anything that can be twisted to a Star Wars theme has got to be good!
Hi, my grandson found my son D&D collection from 35 plus years ago. So he together with his friends on weekends. I believe my son says they're using more up-to-date rules? I picked up this solo K.N. game version so I'd at least a slight idea of what he's talking about. I think I'll have to run through your videos at least 1 or 2 more time to have confidence before trying a solo game. But it does look interesting. If it wasn't for your video, I'd be totally lost. Thanks for taking the time to post it.
You're welcome and good luck with your gaming! Ker Nathalas is not the easiest solo RPG, so don't worry if you find it challenging!
Great play thru. Question at 11.39 when you rolled a 2D6 you rolled a 6 and 4. The damage chart shows damage up to 10+ so wouldn't the 6+4 =10 Die Roll = 4 Damage instead of the 2 and 1 damage total of 3? I am not sure why the chart would go beyond 6 die roll if only to be considered individually....unless different enemies would use D10 or D20 dice.
Yeah I'm not sure why the chart goes higher, but I'm definitely doing the damage calculation correctly. The system often strikes people as a little strange, so you can find Alex, the designer, all over the place restating that this is how it works - including in the comments on one of these videos somewhere! Thanks for watching!
There are times when you'll see a d10 damage dice - several high-tier mastery abilities grant them, and you can get one from a defensive maneuver too.
Would you kindly consider adding all your Ker Nethalas content as a Playlist?
Done!
This is also the first rpg for me and I just started today. Do you know if there are good Solos in a Cyberpunk or modern (Something like Stargate) setting or Solo rules for CP Red? And do you have a few tips for games that doesn't give you scenarios? I really have problems to imagine something from a few bullet points while at the same time being very good at condensing a lot of text into just a few words
Hi there! First off, it might be that Ker Nethalas is quite a challenging one to start playing RPGs with, solo or otherwise. Might be that you're fine with it, but something to bear in mind!
Now I'm not the best person to ask about playing games without scenarios, since I have not done a whole lot of 'true solo RPG play'. It is worth checking out Geek Gamers intro to solo RPG play. Maybe The Dungeon Dive's series on Mork Borg solo, any of the playthroughs by Chaoclypse give a good non-intimidating demo of how it's done.
Best of luck!
What will happen when you end the dungeon, will you hexcrawl? Or will you just endlessly go down?
When you find the exit, that acts as the entrance to a new domain with a new overseer. Rinse and repeat. I'm not sure if the designer has plans to allow characters to eventually leave Ker Nathalas and return to the world above...
For now you just keep exploring, getting more powerful, completing your Personal Goals, and basically just exploring the place. I do intend to expand the game with different types of environment, but I still have lots of stories to tell down in the Necropolis, and I plan on shaking things up there so it's not just dungeon delving.
@@blackoathentertainment well doesn't that sound intriguing! Are you gonna keep with the zine supplement format or are you plan something more chunky? I realise I may be cheekily asking for an exclusive here 😉
@@lone_adventurer I'll keep releasing zines with extra rules, Domains, monsters, items, etc. But the type of content that will change how the game is played will get its own expansions. I don't know how chunky they'll be because I only have notes for now (I'm working on other games at the moment), but definitely larger than a zine!
@@blackoathentertainment cool! And yeah, I know you're working on other stuff, since you always are, but also because I'm keeping an eye on Ruthless Heavens - that one looks super intriguing and the art is really drawing me in.
I got Gorehof and it has 2 extra attacks as well. It was impossible for him to kill me and I couldnt kill him either.
Why? He got -20 to combat skills (due to my magic gloves and one of my abilities). So was hard for him to hit.
And i couldnt kill him because one of the abilities was healing. Having 3 actions wss hard because he always healed 😢
Those overseers are brutal; I'm glad its not just me that found that! Honestly, I think they might be too crazy. Even with 1-2 actions, I reckon they are pretty hard!