I have the same addiction too! But I must admit that the Wizardry series made it worse cause it has so many stats and skills to play with that I almost foam at the mouth yapping about it!
There's something special about creating your own characters in any RPG and I always get attached to them unlike using premade characters. Names is another story all together, I can spend days thinking about what names to use, and for a pary of six!.....!!
Gosh I just can't bare the wait! Thank goodness for W&W to widdle the time away! W&W is almost like W8 Lite. My only major concern is that if Sir-tech waits too long, the graphics/game engine and interface will start to become too dated for casual players to consider playing which can hurt them financially. I do want to look foreward to a Wizardry 20!
But its good to know I'm not alone in this addiction!
And great topic by the way!