Every situation you are confronted with needs to be a direct result of something you did.

No "cause some trouble" events; events happen because of game state, they do not invent game state. Otherwise it will make genuine emergent stories feel scripted.

EVENTS SHOULD LITERALLY SAY: this happened because X

Here are our current tools:

• Character current opinion of each other
• Character opinion history
  • Character used to like X but now hates X
• Council status
  • Not on council and all roles are taken
  • In a specific role
  • Not on council and there's a role open
• Battle results
  • Win (and units that specifically performed well)
  • Lose (and units that specifically performed badly)
    • think survivor and challenge reactions
  • Character greviously injured in a battle
  • Captured commanders and what you do with them
    • Execute (final words & nobunaga's ambition style portrait slice)
    • Recruit
• Troop count and ratio missing
• Faction troop was recruited from
• Resource shortfall status

Here are some events that use these tools:

• characters X and Y are in a bitter feud: what do you do?
• character X demands to know why they are not on the council
• character X sees [council role] open and asks to be considered for it
• character X (was in battle) blames character Y (performed badly in battle loss) for the loss at Z
• character X (was in battle) celebrates character Y (performed well in battle win) for the win at Z
• character X (was in battle) is wary of character Y (performed badly in battle win) despite the win at Z
• character X (was in battle) is inspired by character Y (performed well in battle win) despite the loss at Z
• character X is upset their troop hasn't been reinforced yet
• character X suggests a raid on Z to stave off the impending shortfall
• character X (council role architect?) is panicking because county cannot be developed any further and map space is running out

Here are some county actions that feed into these tools:

• Scrounge for money: infringes on something character X was doing
  • Need many variations for this
• Develop industry (income): infringes on something character X was doing
  • Need many variations for this
• Raid neighbor for money: worsens neighbor relations