Esoteric Enterprises - House Rules - UPDATED JULY 14 2020

UPDATE DECEMBER 7 2020: The latest version of these rules can be found here.

SKILL CHANGES

Everyone starts with 1 extra point in Athletics, meaning average characters have a 2 in 6 base chance. If this takes you to 7 in 6, you must put the extra point somewhere else.

CLASS CHANGES

BODYGUARD
The Bodyguard class has the option to take damage in lieu of someone else taking it. This is subject to narrative plausibility at the discretion of the DM. You can dive in front of a knife or bullet, you can't take the damage from poison if someone else drinks it.

MODIFIED JULY 14, 2020: 

MYSTIC

• Mystics now start with 3-6 charm, plus or minus CHA modifier. This does not increase as they level.
• Blessings do not require a roll on the Cost of Holiness table if the recipient of the blessing passes their Charm roll.

EXPLORER

Explorers do not shrink the damage dice of their weapons. They roll damage normally.

ADVANCEMENT CHANGES

Multiply experience gained from treasure by 5. This results in the awkward expedient of dividing job rewards by 2 (since they give half XP), dividing that by the number of party members, then multiplying by 5. But it makes advancement fast enough to matter, instead of glacial. And it doesn't disrupt "balance", because the game has none and doesn't care.

Your character's Resources value functions rules as written during character creation. After character creation, buying items is done with cash. It's up to the DM to come up with cash prices for items, but the book has some guidelines (ex pg 134 lists 300 for a handgun, 600 for a heavy weapon, etc). In addition to money from adventuring, you get a weekly influx of money equal to the "budget" for your Resources level on page 56.