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The hobbit berserker in my True20 game is far and away the most deadly character in melee combat, but the other characters hold their own and shine in different ways. Everyone's kill count and spotlight time is somewhat similar. In my last d20 game, the gnome barbarian did outdamage the rogue...

Stat items don't bother me. Just part of the game. I guess I'd maybe like a system where a person could gain stat boosts permanently instead of using the items, and then have less items that were each more interesting, but, I don't have a good fix for it. I like Piratecat's method, but yikes...

It does? I remember a vitality and wound point system, but nothing that removed hit points entirely. Am I missing something?

Kill the character, let the guy know that his character didn't fit the group and was evil and that you're looking to play a heroic game. If he's not interested in playing then that's cool, but if he is let him roll up someone new.

True20 handles this through making damage values for weapons static. I recommend it.

I voted a 4. Somewhat often in a game, I'll just stop and say -- wait, my character wouldn't go along with that. Help me figure out a plausible reason my character is going with you all and not stopping the game. (Of course, there are times I'll have my character say "that's a bad idea" or...

House rule, for sure. And yeah... that's a very un-Cthulhu rule, in my opinion. :)

I had one in my game, we played level 1-8. He was a tiny bit weak in combat compared to the barbarian and the ranger, as being a wizard3/cleric3 is not great, but, yes. If your DM has outruled this, he hasn't really thought it through. I had the same gut reaction when I read it.

I'm currently running True20... so, I guess I'm alright with static damage. Calling 1d6 and 2d6 is funny though. It applies to monsters too, right? It overvalues special abilities on weapons. (Which isn't a big deal, of course.)

I'd like to echo going with the latest core set, 9th edition. I'd recommend you and your wife grabbing a couple (or more) friends who also haven't played the game much, and trying a booster draft after everyone has played around for a few days -- it's quite a bit of fun. In booster drafts...

Might and Magic 2, a paladin.

My main flaw is that I have a really hard time staying in-character without cracking jokes. Intense roleplaying makes me a little nervous and I'll draw myself out of it time and time again. This especially hurts the game when I'm DM'ing.

Sounds brutal. Doesn't sound like you're trying to punish them or any other silliness, and it sounds like fun. Fair by me!

World of Darkness (the new rules,) or Call of Cthulhu. Echo echo etc.

I liked it. The incest stuff was really pretty funny, in my opinion. This isn't spam. I think I'd like it better without the, ah, turn at the end. The rest alone would stand... albeit, I'm not sure what it would stand for.

I'm still a sucker for paladin threads.

...I really like the plot hook. Neat way to open up into an epic plot. ...and I can't think of any good NPCs for the town. Doh.

Nailed it. I really liked White Wolf's second editions of stuff, but the metaplot junk was horrible. Shadowrun's metaplot is... ok. I could certainly do without it.

A friend of mine made a system where you only roll for defense against an attacker's static score. I tried explaining "but I want to roll to hit things, not dodge stuff!" but he didn't ever really get it... Oddly enough you still roll your attack roll for shooting a bow in his system. Oh...

True20, do it. Low magic D&D is very hard to make work, and though there are a few success stories, there are a lot more horror stories from people who meant well but ended up running games that weren't fun.