You know you're a modder when...

[Dol Guldur]

You come to realize that whatever you do or say you cannot escape the eternal law that states that only 1 person in a hundred will actually read your mod installation instructions properly...

[Lusted]

The one person who does read them does it wrong.

[alpaca]

You try to include a new feature and the game does something completely different than you intended.
You ask people questions they can never really answer.
You tell a friend about a cool feature in your mod when you're drunk and he doesn't get what the heck you're talking about.
You think about a philosophic principle and immediately wonder how you could get that into the game.
You ask yourself which files you have to change in order to open the fridge.

[Apoc]

You spend time wondering which traits the fine girl at the bar has, and whether she has a fat, ugly friend ancillary you have to get rid of.

[wlesmana]

You feel like the guy at the medicine counter at a drug rehabilitation center because you got a horde of people trying to swindle you to get a little bit of info, screenshot, screencap, OMG ANYTHING PLEEEASE out of you every single day.

You kept the Google page on search for "Vercingetorix Total War CAS exporter" refreshed every few hours in case a new CAS exporter is released.

You nitpick the models of CA's screens.

You spent hours, days, weeks, making sure the vertices are weighed properly at the arms so they don't look odd when animated, fully realizing that no one else except you would ever notice it in-game.

You have opened (or TRIED to open) every single file in RTW directory.

[Woad Warrior]

You can't actually play the game any more because as soon as you see something you don't like, you have to change it. Then once you start a mod, you think you have a better idea for one, then start it, then drop it again, and on and on......

Before I found the Guild I done loads of full campaigns on RTW. Since I came here I've hardly even played the game.

[Dol Guldur]

when you're convinced that you and your team of 3 can do a better job than CA - fill up all the factions with unique units, make faction-specific that which was merely cultural or make all the cultures distinct with no overlaps, ad, change all the artwork, music ad infinitum - even though the vanilla game alone took 30 full-time professionals 55 man-years to complete. :)

[Lucjan]

You tell people computer files have more than just bmp's and jpegs...and they look at you like you're god.

[Lentonius]

lol yeah, once entering the world of modding you begin to tire of the game itself, becoming an ever hungry monster of mods, downloading every mod, and having fifteen RTW folders on your C drive.

[Agraes]

You keep modding even on a computer that doesn't run RTW properly...

[Caius]

You are always waiting to a CA member, only for make questions about the game.

You are making guides about a things in the game who no-one understands.

You are talking about all the time of the mod.