So, have you ever felt like your average fantasy story was not cliched and hacky enough? Like, you have your big bad evil guy who threatens to take over the world, and it's up to the heros to stop him! And you get to be the heros, of course. Whatever that means, whether you're a wizard or fighter or whatnot.

There's nothing wrong with that. That's a perfectly workable plot. Let's do that. What could go wrong?