*Thank you, Thauraeln_the_Bold, for inspiring me.*

This is a homebrew setting I'm working on, currently. This post includes the current introduction, and feedback is always appreciated. Thank you! 

Amazing lore! I'd love to hear more about your world! Are there any new races, subclasses, spells or monsters?

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Amazing lore! I'd love to hear more about your world! Are there any new races, subclasses, spells or monsters?

 Monsters and magic items for sure, still working on races/subclasses, although I have a half-vampire race I will probably put in.

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Amazing lore! I'd love to hear more about your world! Are there any new races, subclasses, spells or monsters?

 Monsters and magic items for sure, still working on races/subclasses, although I have a half-vampire race I will probably put in.

 I'm sure they'll be great! I myself am having a bit of trouble coming up with magic items, but your ideas are probably a lot better. 

Magic items are my strong suit, and monsters I'm OK at, but the other two I'm really bad at.

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Magic items are my strong suit, and monsters I'm OK at, but the other two I'm really bad at.

This google spreadsheet is really helpful for balancing races. Besides that, you should look in the PHB, as well as XGtE and TCoE if you have them. Modify your subclasses' features so that they sound like the ones in the book. If you need any other help testing out your subclasses, post them in this thread or another one and I'll try to check them out.

Thanks!

What I currently have/plan on making:

Races:
Half-Vampire

Monsters:
Guild Adventurer
Church Inquisitor
Guild Assassin
Bronos (Adventurers' Guild leader)
President Qara (Assassin Guild President)
Pope Camshin (Church Pope)
Chancellor Filka (Head of the Mages' Guild)
Rii Bloodlamp (Bloodlamp Family Emissary)

Magic Items: 
Vrx (sentient sword)
Gloves of Spell Turning

I would recommend taking a look at Kobold Press's Dhampir (Half-Vampire) race. 

The others, I don't have much to say about, as there aren't stats for them, but the names and concepts are cool, at least.

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I would recommend taking a look at Kobold Press's Dhampir (Half-Vampire) race. 

The others, I don't have much to say about, as there aren't stats for them, but the names and concepts are cool, at least.

 Thank you. Any suggestions for the book intro?

A lot of it doesn't seem like the introduction for a world, it seems like an introduction for a campaign. I would read how Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, Mythic Odysseys of Theros, Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, and Eberron: Rising from the Last War introduce their worlds and do something similar to that. 

I have since added: 

Using This Book

This book gives you everything you need to set a campaign in Leira. It directs both players and Dungeon Masters in making characters and designing adventures set in this world.

This introduction gives an outline of the world, including things such as its history and main themes.

Chapter 1 gives information on how to create characters from Leira, as well as providing a new race option.

Chapter 2 provides information on the guilds and various other factions. It also gives instructions on using these factions as group patrons.

Chapter 3 focuses on the geography and many cities of Leira. It includes many adventure sites, as well as the locations of Leira's famous Living Dungeons.

Chapter 4 provides advice on using the guilds as campaign villains and how to create adventures in this setting. It also includes a premade adventure set in the city of Toppenstone.

Chapter 5 includes a number of new spells and magic items that can be used as treasure by the Dungeon Master. This chapter also talks more in-depth about the Living Dungeons.

Chapter 6 contains a wide variety of monsters and NPCs that call Leira home. This also has the Living Dungeon template for application on those certain monsters.

Main Things to Know

Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you create your character or set your campaign in Leira:

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1. The Guilds rule all. If your character is not part of the appropriate guild, they may find themselves openly harrassed or inconvenienced by guild-members in the streets with no repurcussions from the authorities; indeed, as the Guilds arethe authorities.
2. Their are many guilds, and many schemes. If you are a Dungeon Master, you should pick from the start which guilds to involve, as they are all powerful, scheming and deadly. If you add too many factions in, it can be a bit much for your players to handle. The three main factions are the Assassins' Guild, the Adventurers' Guild, and the Helvatice Rebellion; they are most likely the ones you want to stick with.
3. Few other factions exist. During their initial power play, the Guilds were quick to wipe out any other faction, and so the Helvatice Rebellion is likely the only non-guild faction left in Leira.

 

 

*I owe a lot to TTB. Thank you, Thauraeln!*

I'm kinda going off the assumption that very few people read the introduction.

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I'm kinda going off the assumption that very few people read the introduction.

 I did :)

So far, it looks pretty good. I would suggest assembling the book in a word document, and then copying specific sections into DnDBeyond, rather than writing it all here. That way, it's easier to format and you can access it even when you don't have WiFi available.

cool! still kinda short, but that will change (I think)

Overall, really cool. Few minor suggestions, nut nothing crazy.

For Chapter 4, I would switch the History to the Introduction Chapter, where it goes in most published campaign setting books. Then, you would have a mostly empty chapter 4, where I would suggest placing the classic "Using X as a Campaign Villain/Building Adventures in this Setting." This would be equivalent of the Theros chapter 4 (using Gods as Campaign Villains), the Ravnica chapter 4 (using the Guilds), or the Eberron chapter 4 (using...basically anything as the campaign villain. E:RFtLW was crazy. I loved it). These chapters typically included the Example adventure as well, so it would work well with what you have there already.

Not really important, just a Formatting thing to fit with all the other D&D campaign books.

Beyond that, seems really interesting. I would love to see how it expands :D

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Overall, really cool. Few minor suggestions, nut nothing crazy.

For Chapter 4, I would switch the History to the Introduction Chapter, where it goes in most published campaign setting books. Then, you would have a mostly empty chapter 4, where I would suggest placing the classic "Using X as a Campaign Villain/Building Adventures in this Setting." This would be equivalent of the Theros chapter 4 (using Gods as Campaign Villains), the Ravnica chapter 4 (using the Guilds), or the Eberron chapter 4 (using...basically anything as the campaign villain. E:RFtLW was crazy. I loved it). These chapters typically included the Example adventure as well, so it would work well with what you have there already.

Not really important, just a Formatting thing to fit with all the other D&D campaign books.

Beyond that, seems really interesting. I would love to see how it expands :D

 Thanks!

Wow this is really awesome. I have no comments and am really excited to see what comes next.