CONFLICT THESAURUS

PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION



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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, duty and responsibilities, losing an advantage, no-win situations, dangers and threats, miscellaneous challenges

EXAMPLES:
The character's body being pushed past its limits due to exertion
Being depleted due to poor nutrition or starvation
An illness that ravages the character's strength
Forced wakefulness that takes a physical toll

MINOR COMPLICATIONS:
Clumsiness
Sustaining an injury (a cut, a burn, etc.) due to slow reaction time 
Dropping something of value and damaging it
Being unable to finish a task
Becoming a danger to others when one's abilities decrease due to exhaustion
Making mistakes that require additional energy to correct them—falling down a hill on an obstacle course which must then be re-climbed to continue, for example
Having to ask someone to take over because the character's strength is depleted
Poor decision-making that leads to mistakes

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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