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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cooper" data-source="post: 1833096" data-attributes="member: 24255">Let me see...I started reading Libris Mortis on the 20th of October or thereabouts, and finished it yesterday, for a total of about 12 days.  During that time, I spent probably an hour or so on weeknights, and maybe an average of 3 hours on each day of the weekend.  I'd guess it was somewhere around 20 hours over the course of nearly two weeks, in all.  There's absolutely no way I could get through a book that size (and with that many stat blocks) in 8 hours, as someone suggested earlier.  What slows me up aren't the straight monster stats (I've gotten so I can pretty much do them cold, since I don't bother to check Skills, which would be the really time-consuming chunks) but the NPC stats, especially if they're multiclassed characters.  Frankly, I don't trust myself not to mess up by trying to do those sorts of computations in my head, so I have to pull out the PH and DMG to double-check the adept's BAB or what level a barbarian gets Uncanny Dodge and that kind of thing.  Also, remember that those 20 hours are not just devoted to reading through the book and doing stat computations in my head (or looking stuff up), but also documenting everything on sheets of legal paper so I can refer to it later when I type up the review.And as for the review, that's a good chunk of time right there on top of the time spent reading through the material.  Reviews like Libris Mortis with huge chunks of stat errors take forever to type up (I think I spent over four hours, all in all, just typing up my review in Notepad).</blockquote>

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