u/verdantsf

I'm very new to LitM. I'm trying to get a handle on narrating for a party that is converting from DnD at Level 5. The ranger in particular has me wondering on how to navigate his Sharpshooter theme's weakness for close combat. Sharpshooter is his one Adventure tier theme. When Origin tier foes close the distance, does he still get +2 on the situation (+3 might difference, -1 weakness)? The tier difference pretty much overwrites the weakness and could even encourage him to wade into melee combat to earn xp. Perhaps that's not a bad thing and could lead to character changes, but again, I'm really new, so trying to get my head around a very different system.

Level 5 DnD party is considering switching from DnD to LitM having recently finished Lost Mine of Phandelver. The conversion tool has been very helpful for most aspects, but I'm iffy on the parties combined treasury. They're sitting at around 900 gold currently. The paladin would like to buy plate armor, which costs 1,500 gold. My tentative solution is to grant the party a story tag of Wealth-2, then at Wealth-4 (achieved in maybe 2 to 3 more sessions), the paladin can purchase the armor without making the team destitute, sliding them back to Wealth-1. Does that sound fair?

I'd like to take my party through Lost Mine of Phandelver. This will be my first time with the module. While I'm an experienced DM overall, I've spent a long time playing other systems and only recently returned to DnD. I'm a bit rusty with adjusting things and would like some advice.

The party is Level 3, not 1, but it's also only a party of 3 (Paladin, Ranger, Rogue). Will that basically balance things out without much intervention from me? If not, should I have a friendly NPC join them in later chapters, like Sildar?

We're also using DnD 5.5e. I know it's supposed to be backwards compatible with 5e, but are there any particular pitfalls I should look out for in terms of version discrepancy?

I recently had a game where my co-healer was Gambit. I had 48% accuracy, he had 27%. Despite that, he had more healing, more kills, and more damage. I don't begrudge him more healing, as he's a main healer, but as an off-healer, I'd expect at least more damage and kills. The same has been repeated with every other healer I've been paired with so far, with the exception of Rocket, who had more heals, but less damage and kills.

Is this just a part of playing Adam and I should focus less on the scoreboard and more on good plays, especially with the ultimate and soul bond?

In the past, winning Liberation Wars with a Worker Cooperative created a democratic communal parity empire with Shared Burdens. However, now I'm only getting oligarchies, which is pretty much diametrically opposed to what Worker Cooperatives stand for. When did this change?

Given the volume of duplicate posts, for discussions related to the recent news, please use the following threads:

Studio Status Speculation / Undead Labs Appreciation

A few days ago, my nomads were collecting a few pops by exchanging crew with the worlds I was visiting while creating cheap branch offices. A few hundred here, a few hundred there. However, I'm my most recent playthroughs, I'm not getting any pop exchanges at all. Was this removed?