Percy Jackson D&D One-Shot (Preview) – We Steal a Belt From the Wine Dude

What do you need to know about Percy Jackson?

Knowledge of the Percy Jackson books or movies is not required, but does gives color to the world through references to known characters.

What do you need to know about Dungeons & Dragons?

You or part of your group need a base understanding of the game, and one needs to be able to be the Dungeon Master.

Available character options

All characters are human demigods that are 3rd level and between 9 and 11 years old.Use the “Human traits” as specified in the “Player Handbook”, but alter the languages as following: “You can speak and write English and an additional language, and you can read Ancient Greek, but you have difficulty reading English and your additional language because of dyslexia.”

Additional Races (like Centaur, Cyclops, Dryad or Satyr), Classes and extra character options that each of the 20 gods bestow can be found in “Percy’s Olympian Handbook”, available soon in the shop.

The available classes are linked to the chosen godly parent. The options in this one-shot are:

Quick start character sheets are included in the product.

Choose your spells and abilities based on the domain of your chosen godly parent.

The players start without weapons or gear, so their starting AC is: 10 + Dex modifier (unless they have a feature like Unarmored Defense).

Introduction

The events of this adventure take place during the third book in the Percy Jackon series “Percy Jackson – The Titans Curse”. The players are unaware that they are demigods at the start, or that gods and monsters exist. They were raised by their human parent who was forbidden to let you know of your heritage. During this adventure the PC’s are asked to help with a fantastical, high-stakes mission.

Running this one-shot

This one-shot covers a lot that might happen during this adventure and goes into detail about how the locations the players come across look and feel. Despite that, players tent to do stuff, meet people and go to places they are not supposed to. It is your job as the Dungeon Master to fill in gaps where necessary and steer them back towards the main plot.

Text in boxes can be read out loud to the players when the conditions in them are met.

The normal humans of the world are unable to see the monsters or magical happenings because of the Mist. Roleplay the effects as you like.

Turn on a fitting music playlist and let the fun begin!

The hall of the Statue of Freedom in the Visitors Center (Emancipation hall)
In this huge, well-lit, open room there are endless tourists, staff members and security guards. The enormous statue of freedom can be seen from any location in the room.
The statue of Freedom is a plaster model used for making the cast of the bronze statue on top of the building. ‘Freedom’ wears a helmet with an eagle’s head, a dress with a ‘US’ clasp and she is holding a sheathed sword and a laurel wreath. It is standing on a black, marble base. 5 feet around the base is a small fence to keep tourists from touching the statue. While you are investigating the whole statue you notice small glowing letters on the base. Although you recognize them as a different language they are even easier to read than English. They read: “A grape is tasty, and elegant is a vine, having patience is hard, but it is worth it for ”.

This Satyr named Jacob is very drunk. In this state he is very gullible and can be convinced of almost anything (DC 5). He tries to keep up appearances of doing a good guarding job though so through hiccups and slurring his words he will ask them questions to verify who the visitors are. His job is to guard this gate for 50 years and he has been here for 8 years. He has a little room behind the wooden door with a bed, a kitchen and his belongings. His job is to send anyone away except Dionysus or anyone here on his behalf. When there is a breach he pushes the red button and the hallway behind the gate will collapse.

If the red button is pressed
The first explosion breaks the ceiling of the entire hallway but also breaks open the gate. There is a split second window for the players to still run through the hallway while rocks start to fall. PC’s running through have to make two separate Wisdom or Dexterity saving throws and take 1d6 damage for each failed roll. Hylla will run through immediately to continue her quest and if Harry is still around he will run back up the stairs to save his life.

If the PC’s walk completely out of sight in any direction they come back around to this vault door and the stone bust. The Satyrs and Centaurs are here out of free will and see it as a kind of vacation. They can’t help the PC’s but do know that the stone head can probably help but has to be tricked into talking about anything except wine. The Satyrs and Centaurs all come from different timelines and will return there when leaving. Exiting back out through the vault door gets you back to the same time and place you left. This also means PC’s could take a long rest here.

Going back out the vault and using a wrong combination of turns brings them to either a wine storage, a wine production, a wine party or a likewise location.

Any shield, vault door or hiding place burns up when tried, and any pausing or hesitation will result in 1d8 fire damage. If the red button at the gate was pushed and the hallway is full of rocks then Hylla will clear a path by punching though some of the rocks with her newfound ‘belt power’. If they were let through the gate by the Satyr the gate has been re-locked and must be opened with force or magic before continuing to flee. The drunk Satyr has already ran away.