December 2nd, 2019:

	I've been designing another GURPS campaign, this time it's a GURPS 
Supers campaign centred around a villain who has a "buddy" relationship 
with the suburbanite family whose house is just above his underground 
lair's newest expansion (as they discover to their mutual annoyance).  
It's a complex story that spans continents and (later) times, and it made 
me realize a couple of things:

A: I am incapable of roleplaying an evil character (they all end up 
redeemed somehow) and

B: I don't think I really like designing RPG campaigns, I just like 
writing stories.

Seriously, I started writing an outline of the main character (the 
villain), and got carried away - three hours later, what started out as a 
point-form list of traits and abilities became a twelve page origin story, 
and spoiler alerts for things I haven't built up to yet.. AND THIS IS JUST 
THE FIRST CHARACTER!

But, that's how it is with me... if you'll remember last year, I wrote a 
campaign for Car Wars that was meant to be a simple exercise in vehicular 
combat in a busy urban setting, but ended days later with me having 
written city ordinances, a bus schedule, a "wandering monster" encounter 
list of stock cars to simulate traffic, traffic shaping and route 
planning, etc etc.  What was supposed to be a simple "what happens if we 
got into a fight in rush hour" scenario became an entire virtual city with 
laws and emergency service response times that would be HELL to actually 
play (let alone GM).

I think I need to step back and try to do something small-scale for a 
change.