Path of the Fury (Mad Max One Shot)

• Level 5 D&D 5e Pcs - Premade character sheets
• Based loosely off the premise and plot of Mad Max Fury Road
• The players will be portraying The Wives, a party of captured women kept in bondage by a powerful warlord known as The Immortal. The one-shot will follow their perilous escape from The Immortal's Citadel and across the wastes to a safe haven known as The Green Place.
• borrowing racing mechanics from petals to the metal

Plot points/Scenes

Act One The Escape

Opening sequence, introducing the PCs: the wives have escaped the Immortal's chambers

presented with two magic item options each, choose one

Splendid: Sentinel Shield or ___ shield

Capable: Two magic items

Toste: Two guns

Dagna: 

Fragile: 

survival elements

creature combat, traps, environmental threats+

Act Two The Chase

• Descent into Avernus vehicle rules
• borrow elements from Petals to the Metal
• https://theadventurezone.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_Wagon_Racing

Act Three The Showdown

fight with the immortal?

Themes

• Power and Agency
• "We Are Not Things"
• Redemption
• Found Family

Relations

Protagonists

Splendid

tiefling, golden skin and hair, all pearl white eyes. Life cleric

Capable

Fire Genasi, flaming red hair in braids, moves like fire, pink/red skin, golden eyes, alchemist artificer (?)

Fragile

tiefling var, with blue skin, cat eyes, wings that have been clipped. Arcane Trickster Rogue

Toste

Human fighter, tan skin, brown eyes, short, cropped dark brown hair. Fighter/Gunslinger

Dagna

High elf, tall thin and very pale almost white skin, white hair, light blue eyes. Circle of the Land druid

Allies

The Fury

Barbarian

Maximus

Paladin Redemption/Vengeance

Nux

Sorcerer Clockwork Soul

Cultural Touchstones

Check out some of these if you want to get a feel for the tone of the world of Path of the Fury:

• Mad Max: Fury Road (film)
• Borderlands 1 & 2 (video games)
• Battlestar Galactica (tv show)
• Post Apocalyptic genres

Guidelines

• themes of empowerment and agency
• F*C$ the patriarchy