@Beemann There is not just One Way to make good stories... But there are a limited amount of ways to make them work well.

Right and the limits are that there needs to be some level of consequence

no

yes

There should be a Bad Thing that could actually happen

And a Good Thing that might happen that we root for

Arg. You guys.

These don't have to be 100% good and bad

stakes range from the end of the world to I forgot sugar for this cake.

Which is which can even be debatable

We enjoy stories with consequences the most, but that doesn't mean that's the only way to make a good story.

No I'd definitely disagree with that, but I'd invite you to come up with examples

The only way to tell a good story, yes it is. The only way to tell any story, no.

Good stories aren't even usually one singular conflict, but multiple conflicts that center around a theme, each with their own struggles and consequences

Now you're kind of digging into preferences

Even Naruto leans on this, they just fail in it wrt their OC. It's illusory

Not really. GTO is one large conflict (Onizuka wants to become the greatest teacher) and many smaller conflicts (students' personal problems, attempts at sabotage) that tie into the larger one

Naruto has other characters with their own (often potentially better) conflicts. Superman has personal and political conflicts

That's all well and good and works for that story, sure. But we're talking about general "rules" of writing.

Yes, one singular conflict is generally not going to carry you through more than a single short story

Which is fine considering we're talking about stories in general

For a series or novel you need to think bigger than that

Sure, but we're more specifically talking about stories in relation to Naruto (and whatever other animu)

The train of thought you're following is getting too granular

When following a philosophy of things like writing, I find that applying a U.S. government structure of understanding works best. You start broad (constitution) then you break it down to specifics for what you're working on (states) then even more specific for your topic (municipality) and then even more specific (individual). At the moment, no one's even agreeing on the broad

Its because we all hate monopoly!

Oh you meant a different broad

broad and board

Monopoly was designed to be hated

I like Monopoly tho lol

Ever play that revised one where you use a credit card instead of money?

It's anticapitalist propaganda that hilariously got appropriated and commoditized

I have not

@SteelandSouls That credit card one (they made a few), was crap, it made the game take so much longer...

Right?! It wasn't as convenient as they made it seem

I see a lot of potential in debt-based monopoly

Tbh

Maybe not as it was implemented but still

any board game where you can lose halfway through the game is a shitty board game

like you're just supposed to sit there with your thumb up your ass while the rest of your friends have fun

Yep