Start with your own roster
Rename the sample factions or add new groups. Set standing, awareness, pressure, relative resources, priorities and objectives.
Give the powers a next move.
Faction Response
Engine
Resolve reactions to the party’s actions, review changes to standing and awareness, and propose between-session moves for your editable faction roster.
Faction reactions, seeded turns and temporary response clocksWindows access through Desktop Command Centre
Keep the powers in view
Make the next response a deliberate choice.
Use bounded reactions and turn proposals as preparation, then decide what happens in your campaign.
Resolve what the party did
Choose an interaction and severity, then review proposed changes, internal debate, outward action and possible counter-moves.
Propose a turn between sessions
Run a seeded action for each participating faction. Review severity, visibility and objective context before bringing it into play.
Keep consequences under your control
Apply a resolved reaction explicitly. Turn actions, relationship effects and clock outcomes remain decisions to carry into your fiction yourself.
Prepare factions with visible pressure
Keep standing, awareness and resources in view.
Set the roster before resolving an interaction or proposing a turn.
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From a party action to a response
Set. Resolve. Review. Apply.
The reaction and faction-turn tabs have distinct purposes.
01 · Set the faction’s current position
Edit its standing, awareness, pressure and resources. Choose directional allies and rivals from the roster.
02 · Describe the interaction through controls
Select aid, harm, negotiation, conflict or avoidance, severity, a separate resource level and optional circumstances.
03 · Review the proposed response
Read the old and new values, internal reactions, outward actions, rough timelines and counter-moves. Relationship effects are narrative suggestions.
04 · Apply or keep the result as a proposal
Apply to roster carries the selected reaction’s changes forward. Save a result snapshot separately, or run a turn without automatically changing campaign state.
What the tool provides
Reactions and turns you can review and use.
Eight capabilities support editable factions, explicit changes, local notes and deliberate sharing.
An editable faction roster
Start with seven sample factions or add your own. Edit identity, priorities, objectives, standing, awareness, pressure, resources and directional allies or rivals.
Reactions to party interactions
Resolve aid, harm, negotiation, conflict or avoidance at four severity levels. Explicit resource conditions and three circumstances shape bounded authored responses.
Standing, awareness and resource changes
Review old and new standing and awareness with proposed resource shifts. Apply deliberately to carry the selected reaction into the local roster.
Internal debate and outward action
Read internal reactions, outward actions, rough timelines, counter-moves and narrative effects on named allies and rivals. Decide what becomes campaign fiction.
Seeded between-session faction turns
Run one action for each participating faction in Weighted, Deterministic or Chaotic mode. Keep the same seed, mode and ordered roster to reproduce a turn.
Temporary response clocks
Name an approaching response, choose two to twelve segments and describe its final outcome. Advance or rewind manually during the current window.
Local saved reactions and turns
Save result snapshots on this device, reopen their output or delete them. Roster changes save separately; snapshots do not restore the roster or controls.
Copied notes for deliberate sharing
Copy a reaction summary, a shorter report or turn text. Review internal descriptions, counter-moves and hidden actions before giving any copied material to players.
Choose the kind of proposal
Single reactions and roster turns serve different moments.
The authored rules and modes have clear limits.
Resolve one faction’s reaction
Interaction and severity determine bounded standing and awareness shifts. Circumstances and explicit resource conditions add conditional reaction text.
Weighted faction turns
Draw from six authored actions with fixed relative odds. The common attitude, awareness and pressure multiplier does not change those relative odds.
Deterministic faction turns
Choose the highest-weight action. Under the normal controls this produces Gather intel for participating factions, rather than varied strategic plans.
Chaotic turns and reproducible seeds
Choose equally among the six actions, including factions with very low awareness. Reproduction requires the same seed, mode and ordered roster.
Bring the response into the next session
Decide what the party sees and what stays private.
Use proposed actions and rough timelines as prompts for your campaign.
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Carry forward the change you accept
Review the current faction before applying.
A result snapshot is separate from the roster it originally described.
Apply the intended reaction
Apply sets standing and awareness and adds resource shifts to the currently selected faction. It does not validate a saved result against that faction’s ID.
Recompute after opening or editing
Opening a saved reaction does not restore the selected faction or controls. Match the faction and resolve again before applying to an edited roster.
Keep relationship effects in perspective
Allies and rivals receive narrative observations, not automatic standing or resource changes. The roster does not enforce reciprocal relationships.
Keep turn actions as proposals
A turn does not advance goals, change resources or execute an encounter. Its first priority and objective supply context rather than directing action selection.
Local records and audience review
Keep accepted results and check copied material.
Local persistence, temporary clocks and sharing have different boundaries.
Automatic roster saving on this device
Changes save after a short delay, with failures not surfaced. An empty or unreadable roster restores samples on reopening; keep important notes separately.
Manual saved result snapshots
Save creates a new local reaction or turn result. Open restores output and its tab only; Delete removes the saved file. Account synchronisation is not provided.
Temporary response clocks
Use two to twelve segments and a final-outcome note. Advance and rewind manually. Clocks disappear on closing the window and never execute the outcome.
Review before sharing
The shorter report includes an internal-reaction description and a counter-move description. Turn text can include Hidden actions. No copied view guarantees privacy.
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Keep organisations present in the fiction
Use standing, awareness and response proposals to prepare the next session.
Keep judgement at the table
Choose which authored actions become real events and apply wider consequences yourself.
Guidance beside the controls
Start Here and How Do I help cover reactions, turns, roster editing, clocks, reports and saving.
Keep the result you accept
Save local output snapshots and keep separate notes for important roster state and temporary clocks.
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Quick answers
Reactions, turn modes and local records in plain language.
Understand what changes, what stays temporary and what copied material can reveal.
What can I edit in the roster, and where does it save?
The sample roster contains a council, merchant guild, watch, thieves’ guild, temple assembly, craftsmen union and noble houses. Rename or remove them and add your own factions. Edit description, comma-separated priorities, objective, standing from minus five to plus five, awareness from zero to one hundred, pressure from zero to ten and four relative resource values: gold, influence, military and intelligence. Select allies and rivals from other roster entries; these are directional references, not automatically reciprocal agreements. Changes are automatically written to this device after a short delay. Save failures are not surfaced, and an empty, missing or unreadable roster restores the samples on reopening. Keep important notes separately. There is one local roster, without account synchronisation or separate campaign libraries.
How does Resolve use the party’s action and faction circumstances?
Choose aid, harm, negotiation, open conflict or ignore, then Minor, Moderate, Major or Existential severity. Choose the current resource level separately from the roster’s four resource values. Internal conflict can add disagreement, an external threat can limit active opposition and a recent setback can produce scapegoating. Fixed rules calculate bounded standing and awareness changes and authored reaction text. Results include internal reactions, outward actions with rough session timelines, resource shifts, conditional counter-moves and narrative effects on named allies or rivals. There is no free-text event analysis, detailed intelligence model or automatic campaign simulation. Resolving leaves the roster unchanged until you choose Apply to roster.
What changes when I apply a reaction or run a faction turn?
Apply sets the selected faction’s standing and awareness to the resolved values and adds the proposed resource shifts within the roster’s bounds. It does not change allied or rival factions, advance clocks or execute encounters. Apply uses the currently selected faction and current resource values without checking that an opened result matches its ID or original state. After opening a saved reaction or editing the roster, select the intended faction and resolve again before applying. There is no undo control. A faction turn proposes actions only: it does not apply standing, awareness, resources, objectives or clock progress. Apply actual campaign consequences yourself.
What do turn modes, awareness and seeds actually change?
Weighted draws from six authored actions: observing, gathering intelligence, soft outreach, resource deployment, interference and escalation. Its attitude, awareness and pressure adjustment multiplies every action’s weight equally, so the relative action odds remain the same. Deterministic chooses the largest weight and produces Gather intel for participating factions under the normal controls. Chaotic gives the six actions equal selection chances and includes factions with very low awareness. Weighted and Deterministic omit factions whose awareness rounds to zero on a ten-point scale, including values below five. Attitude and pressure help label severity; visibility follows the chosen action. The objective and first priority provide output context rather than directing selection. The same seed, mode and unchanged ordered roster reproduce the turn; a seed alone is not enough. Running a turn never executes its actions.
Do response clocks and saved results survive closing the window?
Response clocks last only for the current window. Create a named clock with two to twelve segments, an associated faction and text describing what happens when it fills. Advance or rewind it manually; progress stays within its face. Filling a clock does not execute its outcome, save it or update the roster. Saved reactions and turns are different: Save writes a new local result snapshot each time, and the Saved tab reopens or deletes it. Opening restores only the output and its tab, not the selected faction, inputs, seed, mode, roster, clocks or Apply state. There are no search, rename, tag, compare, archive, import or structured download controls. The roster is saved separately on this device.
Are copied reports safe for players, and is there a Combat PRO handoff?
Review all copied text before sharing. Copy full is a formatted reaction summary containing internal reactions, outward actions and counter-moves; it omits resource and relationship details and dedicated counter-move DM notes. Copy shareable report includes the first internal-reaction description as its public position, the first outward action and the first counter-move description. Its label therefore does not guarantee that private intentions stay hidden. The report uses the fixed Within a week timeframe; this is not a scheduler or an editable time control. Turn copies include action text even when its visibility is Hidden. There is no automatic player filter, dedicated print or structured export, Combat PRO preparation command, faction-dossier import or cross-product state synchronisation. Use related products separately and choose what to transfer manually.
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Create a free VISINVOKE account and choose the required generator access.
Get Desktop Command Centre from your account installer page. Sign in on Windows, then open Faction Response Engine.