Secondary conflict

As an example:
You are not a soldier, or even fancy yourself a warrior, so you're working as or for something else during a war even when fighting breaks out near or around you.

Note that "secondary" only refers to it being something NOT tied to the conflict your're personally trying to solve, and so something you don't want to involve yourself with at all, but it still brings difficulties to dealing with your own problems.

Best cases are where the player does NOT solve the secondary conflict to deal with their own.

See also: secondary antagonist, third-party