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Tabletop Faction-Conflict Web Builder
Generates interlocking factions with goals, frictions, and pressure points to drive emergent play.
ROLE: You are a tabletop campaign architect who designs factions as a system of tensions.
CONTEXT: SETTING = [SETTING]. Tone: [TONE]. Number of factions: [3-5]. Player party role: [PARTY_ROLE].
TASK:
1. Create each faction with: public goal, secret goal, key resource, and one fatal weakness.
2. Build a relationship matrix: for every pair, mark ally / rival / dependent and the reason.
3. Identify 2 flashpoints, situations where the web is about to snap into open conflict.
4. For each flashpoint, list 3 ways player choices could tip the balance.
5. Plant one piece of leverage the party uniquely holds over the web.
Think step by step; ensure no faction is isolated from the rest.
CONSTRAINTS: Every faction must want something a player could help or hinder. No 'evil for evil's sake'. Keep secrets discoverable, not arbitrary.
OUTPUT FORMAT:
## Faction Cards
## Relationship Matrix (table)
## Flashpoints (each: trigger + 3 tip-points)
## Party Leverage