WORLD BUILDING

let's create the most generic fantasy setting ever.

Dwarfs live in mountains.
Elves live in forests.
Humans live in kingdoms.

>Humans live in kingdoms.
I'd kill for a medieval United States expy

Hobbits live under sea.

Dwarves live in high mountain cities with flat, terraformed land that they farm on. Their culture is based on the Inca

The Villain is very close to achieving his goals!

There is an important long-lived long grey bearded long haired wizard whom wears blue and yellow robes with a wizard hat, or a red robe with red wizard hat who is very powerful, everyone knows his name and where he lives, and is protected by higher powers to boot, and also smokes.

The chosen one is an ignorant peasant in a backwater town far away from any evil activity.

the world is called Fantasia

There was a man who looked conspicuously like Sean Bean. He's dead now.

The kingdom is being invaded by orcs.

A Dark Lord threatens to destroy the world.

But he's just working to AWAKEN ANCIENT EVIL.

Places with high magic winds/mana (etc) often becomes scattered with solid magic that takes the form of crystals. They are used as batteries in order to power magical contraptions

A wizard who knows exactly how to fix things lives at the top of a mountain, in a tower.

The Empire has fallen into disarray, full of scheming and backstabbing. The Empire's paladins have become increasingly cruel and now travel around searching for magic users and non-humans to kill.

UNDAH THE SEA

>elves are a dying race
>they're also leaving
>and vastly outnumbered by humans
>they are strong, smart, beautiful, ageless and good at everything

uhh.. but that's actually a nice idea

That's not generic, that's Tolkien.

Generic would be:
>elves are an ancient arrogant race
>they are strong, smart, beautiful, long-lived, and magical
>(but the humans have more geopolitical dominance than them even though they are so superior.... hmm lets just say they have reproductive issues!)
>they HATE all other races because theyre DICKS

Original Setting for D&D, you'll find it in the OSR thread. More American than medieval and literaly used a map of the states as it's world map.

Tolkin. Done.

>Dwarves are basically drunken Jews
>love mining, gold, gems, drinking, engineering, drinking, brewing and drinking
>hate Goblins, Giants, tall ceilings and elves.
>their ancient city, over 10,000 years old, mysteriously disappeared 1,000 years ago
>it didn't actually disappear, it's still there but everyone died when they DUG TOO DEEP and awakened Some DEADLY EVIL.
>that for some reason stays only in the deepest parts of the city?

Not exactly Medieval, but...Ring of Fire?

I have the perfect quest for an ultra-generic setting!

Two dragon sisters are eternal rivals. Two human kings, who are brothers, rule their two small kingdoms peacefully and with mutual trust. Dragon sisters capture the respective wives of the brothers, whom the brothers respectively love to death, and agree to return them on condition of sending the armies to battle the other dragonness. Of course, should the dragon die, the captive wife also dies. Heroes should solve this situation with diplomacy or combat prowess before there is a split in the family!