I’ve GM’d LotFP RAW and it runs great, but I wanted a few tweaks for Better Than Any Man. This is a well trodden path and there are lots of house rules out there, many focused on one or two items, and a couple of complete and significant sets such as Ten Foot Polemic’s Unified House Rules. I didn’t want to change too much, so hand picked a few house rules from different sources that seemed a good fit.

Character Creation

Occupations from lotfp666.com

Combat

Initiative – with Roll20 use individual initiative, around the table use group initiative

Criticals and Fumbles

• The tables below only apply when the PC’s roll a natural 20 for a critical or a 1 for a fumble
• If NPC’s/Monsters roll a natural 20 they do maximum damage + normal damage and if they roll a 1 they fumble as determined by GM
• Melee Criticals, Ranged Criticals, Fumbles  from lotfp666.com

Dual Wield [Ten Foot Polemic’s Unified House Rules]

• When using two weapons to attack roll once to hit as with a normal attack.
• If the attack hits roll damage twice, one for each weapon with damage delivered being equal to the highest value.
• If the same number is rolled on both dice, damage is doubled (i.e. the total of both dice rolls).

Skills

Skill Checks

• Skill checks are made on 1d6 as RAW
• Create Advantage: the character creates an advantage by using appropriate tools, taking more time or some other aspect that will increase the chances of success – roll skill dice twice and take the best result [based on these house rules by The Gnarly Gnoll]

Additional Skills

First Aid

• Takes one turn and if successful heals the recipients HP for the number shown on the dice.
• Can only be used once per character after each combat to heal the damage from that combat.
• A roll of 6 deals 1hp damage to the patient.
• Requires a Healing Kit which costs 100sp and has 10 uses.

Lore [based on these new skills from Deep Delving]:

• This skill represents the character’s knowledge about the game world – geography, history, current events.
• Each character class has ‘Deeper Knowledge’ about their area of speciality which grants adds +1 to the skill
  • Cleric: Religions and Gods
  • Fighter: Wars, Military, Warriors, Weapons and Armour
  • Magic-User: Arcana, items of power
  • Specialist: Nations and Societies, Ruins and Catacombs
• Common knowledge is always rolled with advantage

Skill Points [taken from these Class Revisions by Deep Delving]

• While specialists are still the main class for developing skills, all classes can gain some skill points:
• Cleric and Magic-User
  • 1 point at levels 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17
  • Can choose from First Aid, Languages, Lore, Search
• Fighter
  • 1 point at levels 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17
  • Can choose from Bushcraft, Climb, First Aid, Languages, Lore, Search, Stealth
• Specialist
  • 4 points at 1st level
  • 3 points at levels 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17
  • 2 points every level otherwise