— By Himeutsugi.

As a new KN player, these are some things that have been endlessly useful to me. This is only taking into account the base game + Book of Masteries.

Of course, you first want the game itself! Buy the PDFs (or hard copy of the core rules) direct so that Alex T. can have more money to take over the world with—I mean, continue making wonderful games for us all.

For use with Obsidian

I mean pen and paper is best, but sometimes digital is just so much easier.

• Open Gate: a plug-in that allows you to embed a website on one of the sidebars. You can embed one of the generators, flowchart, etc, to make your life easier as you play. You can even embed multiple websites and switch between them as needed.
• Solo RPG Toolkit: this plug-in allows you to roll dice in Obsidian, as well as add your own custom card decks, random generators, and progress trackers. Useful for any solo TTRPG.
• Inline Scripts: create typed shortcuts that expand into more text. This has a built-in dice roller that I use a lot just to grab a quick result.

I use Solo RPG Toolkit to create this footer that lives at the bottom of my KN pages:

The footer is always visible, as I’m typing above it. This has the Overseer’s influence, some of the most commonly used dice, and my character’s current attributes.

Each of those dice icons is clickable, which then rolls the dice. I reuse them for other things if need be, ie: if I need a d6 for the enemy’s action, I typically just roll that “weapon dmg” die since it’s a d6 anyway.

The attributes are easy to increase and decrease so I can see where my character is at a glance during a fight or exploration. I typically then update the character sheet at the end of an encounter or rest.

If you have the Solo RPG Toolkit plug-in installed, this is the code I used to make that footer:

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**Corrupting Influence.** Each time the creature deals 3+ damage on a single attack, the target must make a Resolve check or lose 1 Sanity.

Attack `d100|red: 1` Defense `d100|blue: 1`
Hit Location `d20|purple: 1` Weapon dmg `d6|orange: 1` 
Dodge (Acrobatics) `d100|green: 1`
Tension  `d8|black: 1`  Encounter  `d20|gray: 1`

LIGHT `    ` `0`
TOUGHNESS`  ` `0`
HEALTH`   ` `0`
AETHER`   ` `0`
SANITY`    ` `0`
EXHAUSTION `  ` `0`

Flowcharts

• Color-coded exploration flowchart by Defaultgen (via the Blackoath Discord)

  explore_ker_nethalas_base.pdf

  This one is nice because it’s color-coded, making it easier to follow! You want to start in the blue box in the upper right that says Roll Area.

• Exploration and Combat flowchart by Aaxor (BoardGameGeek)

  Ker_Nethalas_Flowcharts_v2.pdf

  I like this one a lot since it has Exploration and Combat together on one page. It doesn’t have all the details, but you can see the overall flow of the turns and such.

Generators

These can be used to help eliminate some of the dice roll → flip through book to find table → repeat that happens a lot throughout this game. While some of those can be very fun and suspenseful, it definitely adds time!