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A good recipe for a tragedy is a character constellation where you have multiple good people who only have the best intentions but they still end up working against each other. Everyone has a plan...
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System
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2019-12-08T11:18:26Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Philipp
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2019-12-08T11:18:26Z (almost 5 years ago)
A good recipe for a tragedy is a character constellation where you have multiple good people who only have the best intentions but they still end up working against each other. Everyone has a plan for how to resolve that major problem of the story. Most of these plans might even work. But all these plans are different and are in conflict with each other. Only one of them can be executed. For some reason (character flaws, inability to communitcate, secondary interests, lack of trust...) these people can not agree on which plan to pursue. So each one of them wants to execute "their" plan, and conflict arises from who of them gets to do so. In a more upbeat story, they will eventually resolve their differences and solve the problem together. In a more tragic story all the good people might end up sabotaging each other and they all collectively fail.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-03-14T12:56:43Z (over 5 years ago)
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