I once read through the entire list of RPG cliches and tried to compile a story that contradicted every single one. For example, there's a cliche where the hero's parents wake them up from sleeping in... so I decided the hero would wake up on his own early in the morning and sneak out.

Then I started lounging around the Television Tropes and Idioms website and started picking and choosing which cliches I wanted to appear in my game... since having at least 50 is unavoidable in any case... there are even tropes that exist to contradict other tropes so there's literally no escape... everything's been done.

What were we talking about?