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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1836435" data-attributes="member: 10201"><p>Well, starting from the animal entries in the D20SRD, i probably spent 20hrs researching online and tweaking the stats to reflect the actual capabilities of the real-world animals, and then differentiating them to represent specific breeds, rather than generic classes (to flesh out the critters for my pseudo-arabian campaign). And that's only a few dozen creatures, with relatively simple statblocks. I'm not sure how direct the comparison is, of course--not only did my work include some research, but there were some judgement calls involved (such as how to reflect animals' real-world speeds in the game system) which took some time fiddling around with possibilities and comparing them. But, nonetheless, i'd expect it to take at least a couple dozen hours just to find theerrors in a book the size of a typical RPG hardcover, at least for a high-crunch game like D20 System. And possibly a couple-dozen more to fix them (for anythat're more complicated than straightforward addition errors).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1836435, member: 10201"] Well, starting from the animal entries in the D20SRD, i probably spent 20hrs researching online and tweaking the stats to reflect the actual capabilities of the real-world animals, and then differentiating them to represent specific breeds, rather than generic classes (to flesh out the critters for my pseudo-arabian campaign). And that's only a few dozen creatures, with relatively simple statblocks. I'm not sure how direct the comparison is, of course--not only did my work include some research, but there were some judgement calls involved (such as how to reflect animals' real-world speeds in the game system) which took some time fiddling around with possibilities and comparing them. But, nonetheless, i'd expect it to take at least a couple dozen hours just to find theerrors in a book the size of a typical RPG hardcover, at least for a high-crunch game like D20 System. And possibly a couple-dozen more to fix them (for anythat're more complicated than straightforward addition errors). [/QUOTE]

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