What if you don’t want fisticuffs, fire, mayhem, spaceships zipping at mach speed through narrow, crescent shaped gorges or sorcerer’s conjuring the universe’s dark arts? How do you manufacture conflict then?

Dialogue.

Setting is the combination of scene descriptions and blocking narrated through a specific voice to produce the effect of atmosphere.

Characterization are the choices your characters make under pressure that reveal their true natures.