Greatest CRPG of all time, hands down. The premise is unique, the protagonist is incredibly deep and complex, the storyline and dialogue are masterfully written -- I could rattle off a small essay of praise and that's without touching the incredible NPCs and their interactions with eachother and the PC. I reinstalled it recently on my laptop (with all of the fan-made bug-fixes and widescreen resolution enablers) as I haven't given it a playthrough in a couple of years. I love that every time I revisit a 10 year old game, I discover something new.

"What can change the nature of a man?"

It's hard to assign a specific length to it as there's a ton of optional content (secrets, sidequests). If I had to assign a range to it, I'd say you could easily spend anywhere from 60-100 hours on a single playthrough.

You begin a quest sequence to rescue him shortly after his capture .. it's quite involved though, so don't expect a simple resolution.

hehe i played until i got the modron cube, then lvl'd in there for weeks probably
i was really stuck when i had to give mar his box but cudnt find mar took ages and ages and ages
so cud very well take way longer than 100 hours
unless
u played it before and new where to go evertime