Scene Conflict Template 1
Scene Conflict card Scene owner: [ ] Immediate Scene Goal: [ ] Primary resistance: [ ] Who/what supplies it: [ ] Why resistance has logic: [ ] Initial tactic: [ ] Countermove: [ ] Turn: [ ] Exit state: [ ]
16 Scene Conflict Templates
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Strong Scene Conflict is attached to a clear Scene Goal, gives the resistance credible logic, and develops through changing tactics, evidence, leverage or constraints. The scene exits in a different state because the contest produced a concession, refusal, discovery, cost, commitment or revised objective.
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Scene Conflict Template 2
Goal-resistance fit Scene Goal: [ ] Resistance: [ ] How resistance directly blocks/complicates that goal: [ ] Random obstacle to remove: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 3
Opponent logic map Opposing person/system/force: [ ] Its goal/rule/mechanic: [ ] Its leverage: [ ] Its constraint: [ ] What could make it change tactic?: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 4
Tactic ladder Goal: [ ] Tactic 1: [ ] Countermove 1: [ ] Tactic 2: [ ] Countermove 2: [ ] What changes each time?: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 5
Leverage tracker Character A controls: [ ] Character B/force controls: [ ] Information shift: [ ] Time shift: [ ] Resource/access shift: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 6
Evidence conflict map Claim/request: [ ] Evidence A: [ ] Counterevidence: [ ] What becomes harder/easier after each reveal?: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 7
Internal-external interaction Immediate goal: [ ] Internal pressure: [ ] External resistance: [ ] How one changes the other: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 8
Rule-based conflict Scene Goal: [ ] Rule/procedure: [ ] Why it exists: [ ] Possible exception/workaround: [ ] Cost of workaround: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 9
Resource conflict Needed resource/access: [ ] Who controls it: [ ] Competing demand: [ ] Trade/alternative: [ ] New cost: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 10
Repeated-argument audit Position A: [ ] Position B: [ ] What changed after exchange 1?: [ ] After exchange 2?: [ ] If nothing changed, revise with: [evidence/leverage/constraint/tactic]
Scene Conflict Template 11
Partial-success map Scene Goal: [ ] What is won: [ ] What remains blocked: [ ] New obligation/cost: [ ] Next Scene Goal: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 12
Failure-with-consequence map Scene Goal: [ ] Why it fails: [ ] Information/resource/relationship change: [ ] New option closed/opened: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 13
Turn design Current terms of conflict: [ ] Revelation/choice/cost: [ ] New terms: [ ] Why the old tactic no longer works: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 14
Conflict-layer audit Scene Goal: [ ] Scene Conflict: [ ] Internal component: [ ] External component: [ ] Story Conflict connection: [ ] Stakes: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 15
Exit-state check Opening power balance: [ ] Outcome: [ ] Changed information: [ ] Changed commitment: [ ] Changed relationship/resource/time: [ ]
Scene Conflict Template 16
Scene-to-story handoff Local conflict result: [ ] Character Goal impact: [ ] Story Conflict impact: [ ] Next strategy/Scene Goal: [ ]