CONFLICT THESAURUS

LACKING AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE



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HELPFUL TIP:

Conflict is your story’s secret sauce, supplying tension, relationship friction, and complications to a character’s journey. It comes in a million different forms, so identify the obstacles and problems that will hit your character the hardest by using the Character Builder to uncover their primary insecurities, fears , and desires. Don’t forget to include everyday conflict scenarios that will frustrate them and keep the pressure high.
CATEGORY:
Increased pressure and ticking clocks, failures and mistakes, relationship friction, moral dilemmas and temptation, losing an advantage, loss of control, dangers and threats

NOTES:
Characters are always going to be somewhat goal-oriented-whether they're pursuing an overall story goal or a smaller-level scene one. When they lack the resources they need to get what they want, it creates a problem. Conflict can easily be generated if a character finds themselves lacking one of the following:

EXAMPLES:
Food or water
A safe place to live or stay
Electricity
A weapon
Transportation
Information
Money or other commodities
Crucial survival supplies
Tools or equipment
Medicine
A skill or ability
An ally in a position of influence
Paperwork (ID, a travel permit, a hall pass, etc.)

MINOR COMPLICATIONS:
Lost time and energy as the character turns their focus to obtaining the resource
Inconvenience
Physical discomfort
Arguments over what to do
Tempers flaring among allies as time passes and emotions escalate
The character being blamed for the lack when it wasn't their fault

POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS RESULTS:
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RESULTING EMOTIONS:
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POSSIBLE INTERNAL STRUGGLES:
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PEOPLE WHO COULD BE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED:
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NEGATIVE TRAITS THAT COULD MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE:
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IMPACT ON BASIC NEEDS:
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WOUNDS THIS COULD LEAD TO:
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POSITIVE TRAITS TO HELP THE CHARACTER COPE:
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POSITIVE OUTCOMES:
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