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I suppose we should not be surprised by him being proud of a spelling error.

AD&D 1e, Avalon campaign Sahuagin plot involved Paladin's religion.

I'm not sure money was the primary aim. It seems more like the aim was fame and status as the King of D&D, and that money would come from that (hint: Original TSR went broke). The steps seem to be something like: "Real gamers are like me and Ernie: anti-woke conservative fun guys. They're...

That depends on the game system, a bit. With complex point-buy systems like Hero or GURPS, adding character points in small tranches after each session or each adventure tends to be less efficient than designing an entire character to a fixed budget. So if you're replacing a character or adding...

Finished fourteen month side quest. Started in campaign's second session.

The Hero System "luck roll" mechanic gets used in a lot of the GURPS and D&D that I play. Roll 3d6. Sixes indicate good luck, ones bad luck. Other numbers don't mean anything. A mixture of 1s and 6s is mixed luck.

A friend once claimed he'd figured out how it was meant to work. The system he explained was a bit complicated, but didn't require a lot of twisting of the words in the book. He tried running a game with it, and we took some delight in finding a different way for it to go wrong each round.

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Following money unmasks Sahuagin plot.

Privateers of the Caribbean: Mystic funeral for massacred natives.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Pathfinder Kingmaker: Chaos barbarians defeated, campaign hiatus.

Maybe his idea of "old school roleplaying" has condemnation from authority figures as a key element? Satanic panic and all that. If that made him feel cool as a teenager, he could be trying to recapture the feelings of those days. It sort of matches up with the rest of his career.

Nothing baffling about that. It was finding out things he didn't like, so he did something to stop those being revealed in court. Yes, this is a very short-term plan, based on emotions rather than reasoning. What's surprising about that, in context?

Me, for another. I think about the character's background and motives while generating them. I tend to realise more about them in the first few game sessions. The only tool I use for this is a word-processor, for making and organising notes. I think about characters I'm playing a fair bit...

The d20 change is just a question of rounding to 5% intervals, and then simplifying the physical act of rolling. It doesn't change any probabilities to roll with a d20 as opposed to d100 against numbers at 5% intervals. Pendragon did this well before D&D 3e made all of its rolls d20-based.

"But that was over a year ago! Surely everyone will have forgotten it by now!"

Honor & Intrigue: Adventures in Early Modern Whaling.

It is perfectly possible in point-buy systems for the GM to award some points with a requirement that they be spent on a specific form of advancement. It's also possible to for the GM to require characters to buy up things they've actually used, and forbid buying up things they have not touched...

AD&D1e, the Monday Avalon campaign: Planning start of the war.

Occult WWII campaign in India: Japanese-faked Thugee abandoned operation.

I have never been monogamous with a game system. I learned gaming in two separate groups simultaneously, one played AD&D1e and the other, which was larger and had more interesting referees, played OD&D. It was obvious that neither system could handle everything I might wish to do with a TTRPG...