Faction War & Political Intrigue Campaign Template

Political campaigns live or die on whether the DM can keep track of who wants what, who knows what, and who's secretly betraying whom. The Faction War template gives you three fully-realized competing factions with leaders, secret agendas, and contested territory — pre-wired with the relationships that make political intrigue actually play like political intrigue rather than a list of names on a whiteboard.

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What's included

✓7 nodes: three factions, two faction leaders, a hidden agent, and the contested city
✓Open warfare edges between the Iron Circle and Silver Court
✓Hidden edges: the Ash Brotherhood secretly funding both sides
✓A faction group with color coding for easy visual separation
✓2 quest goals: uncover the funding source and broker a ceasefire

Use cases

City-based D&D campaigns with competing guilds or noble houses
Planar politics — devil courts, archfey rivalries, or githyanki vs githzerai
Post-war campaigns where former allies are now rivals
Sandbox worlds where faction standing shifts based on player choices

Ideal for Dungeon Masters running intrigue-heavy D&D 5e, Pathfinder, Blades in the Dark, Vampire: The Masquerade, or any faction-driven TTRPG.

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