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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...

It does with a little practice. For example, fighting that Iron Golem above, I found out in the first turn that it had DR in the 15-20 range, which meant I wasn't getting much damage through with ordinary hits. A quick PDF search revealed that attacking chinks in armour is at -8 to the torso...

We're in part 4 of Kingmaker, in the Tomb of Armag. We're looking for the present-day barbarian leader of the same name who thinks he's a reincarnation of the historical one, or something like that. The evil priestesses were a bit of a pain, via demon summoning and various blast spells, until...

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Pathfinder Kingmaker: Must save skeletal champions' spirits!

The ancient Judges Guild scenario The Dark Tower has a large dungeon, which includes an entrance from a tavern (there are several other entrances) and a rat warren, but from memory, the tavern does not lead to the warren.

I can bounce very fast if a game has an objective that I'm not sympathetic with. Examples: Fantasy Hero went on about how to design characters for the media you wanted to emulate. I don't: RPGs are their own genre, and trying to emulate a different one just makes things harder. D&D 4e was too...

AD&D1e, regular Avalon campaign session: Party casts Commune on holiday.

I suspect so: your post is only the second time I recall encountering it. The first was the introductory adventure in the SJ Games Dungeon Fantasy RPG, where the opposition rapidly gets beyond large rats.

Norse setting, foiled Angrboða's plan.

Helped Cat-Kronos leave Yggdrasil.

Stabcon convention game in Avalon We are restoring the dungeon!

Privateers of the Caribbean campaign: Arima dreams of slaughtered natives.

So you deliberately annoy him a bit, and drop hints that he might be happier representing himself? No, too much risk he'll complain to the Bar Association once he's lost.

All of those things were happening years before Hickman. The game didn't tell you could do those things, but that didn't slow people down much.