I once got handed the D&D trilogy thing from Weis and Hickman, by a friend who was apparently under the impression that the tropes in it were... new. and fresh. -_-

I mean, yes, they're competently done, and Kender were a pretty sharp break from Hobbits, and gully dwarves (*giggle*), but the tropes... the tropes... the creaking ancient tropes... *cry*