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That's an interesting article, thanks for linking. One trick that I've seen work and could work for the OP. When reasonable, assume that all player talk is meant to be in character. For example, one time the party discussed whether to kill a merchant and steal his wares. The DM warned us that...

When the adventurers wake up, they will find that the innkeeper has been beaten half to death by a thug and given a note. The note informs them that one city official will die every hour unless the city guards execute the adventurers. Copies of this note have been distributed around town...

Which in turn means that hand crossbows are useless for ordinary combat. If you had both hands free to reload the weapon, you would use an ordinary bow instead and do more damage. As far as I know, the only way to use a hand crossbow effectively is to climb the walls. Then you open a fight with...

Invisibility is wildly powerful. You haven't seen obnoxious until you've seen a room full of people trying to swat an invisible, flying, high AC target while it pelts them with ranged attacks. Real TPK material.

As others have said, the Dragonborn race is not the best for the Monk class... BUT! It also doesn't suck. Place your best score in Dex and your next two best scores in Con and Wis. After that, pick whatever background inspires you. Some people insist on only taking backgrounds with Sneak and...

Just to muddy the debate. :D The classes, ranked by intelligence Fighter Traditional intelligence score: 8 Uses it for: Studying Sun Tzu's The Art of War to learn military tactics and Machiavelli's The Prince to learn political theory Traditional role in society: Becoming king and bringing...

It's not exactly D&D, but I played a pacifist in Skyrim once. I was aiming for a good character, but I had to reign in my character once for violating the spirit of the oath and twice for excessive brutality. Even after that, a friend of mine still called me out for my complete lack of morals...