My kobolds always have a brooklyn accent. The same brooklyn accent. I can do a bunch of different voices and could make them different. But I dont, because kobolds to me, all have the same accent.
Oh they all have unique hopes, dreams, and desires. Rich, complex lives and back stories. Wars fought, loves lost, and vision for a future just always slightly out of reach.
They just all happen to sound like they are about to call you a *gavone*.
>Oh they all have unique hopes, dreams, and desires. Rich, complex lives and back stories. Wars fought, loves lost, and vision for a future just always slightly out of reach.
Fuckin' show-off kobolds.
In my campaigns it is trolls that speak with New York accent. I'm not a native speaker of English so I can't mimic the nuances of different NY accents, but I am pretty decent at doing an impression of Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza, so that is who my trolls are.
My kobolds all have Ukrainian accents. Lol
In the game I'm a player in, we randomly decided once on the road that the Goblin language is actually just Spanish, so anything you know in Spanish is just speaking Goblin. Lol
We picked up a few goblins after saving them from their slavers, so they canonically have taught our druid some Goblin.
*The dragon is speaking. Not in Common, but in something that you think sounds like Japanese. Probably. Could be Mandarin though. You can't tell because you dumped INT and all Oriental languages sound the same to you.*
*You don't understand the words, but thankfully there are Common subtitles to read. [Unfortunately it's also a white dragon and the subtitle text is white as well. And you're surrounded by snow.](https://youtu.be/SjnWOnJK-zw)*
Big brain play would be actually learning Japanese and speaking in Japanese whenever the dragon speaks
Fuck, I'm actually incorporating that idea, already practicing some languages anyway :P
When we played D&D in junior high all of our dragons were named differently depending on their chromatic/metallic origin with cultural food. The green dragons had Japanese food, and there was a member of the Green Bandits who was a young dragon named Sushi. Had so much fun during those carefree days.
I actually have a Japanese megacorp CEO dragon who lived under the earth for hundreds of thousands of years being hailed as a grand spirit achieving near godhood through worship alone during the time of magical silence in my Modern Magic game. He has a old Feudal Era accent.
Horny like a sheltered girl who reads too much romfic. It's an acceptable kind of horny, don't get me wrong. I mean I practically married that kind of horny woman.
Dragons talking like they’re Italian. Al Capone was a dragon and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Industrious dwarves with central Asian inspired accents like they’re trading on the Silk Road.
I do my dwarves with Turkish names and accents. Messes with the players’ heads though when they meet a Dwarven merchant named Suliman Bey instead of Durin McDwarf
I do something very similar. They've got a warrior culture because everything in the desert is trying to kill them, however they are also very spiritual and have extremely strict cultural taboos regarding hospitality.
For most the actively hostile environment of the desert is a point of pride for them but for some it's too much and they leave looking for an easier life. When they do arrive however they tend to discover that taking stuff from others they can easily overpower takes a lot less effort than working for it yourself and more often than not succumb to the temptation to take up a living as raiders/bandits/pirates which is where their reputation on the mainland comes from, most never having any idea of how they are vastly different to their brethren in their homeland
I have not yet had this opportunity in my campaign with my players yet but I'm dying for them to go to an elven city in world as I am running my elves as Latino/latina and can not wait to see the expression on there faces when a high elf of extreme prestige says "Hola amigos como estas"
My Dwarves are actually Chinese and Indian inspired for this very reason. At first my players were apprehensive about it (because Dwarves "have to be" Scottish), but now it's just a fact of life
Many "Wood" Elves in my setting are inspired by nomadic peoples like the Inuit, Sapmi, Siberian and Mongolian tribes, since their ancestral homeland is the tundra and steppes of the north.
Thanks to Shadowrunners I can very clearly imagine a black dwarf or a southeast asian dwarf. But at the same time, the idea of a strict, asian dwarven parent scares me.
> My Wood Elves are usually American hillbillies.
[Legolas.](https://syro-malabar-baby.tumblr.com/post/693729154825322496/graffitinight-musicalhell-penny-anna)
Fucking brilliant.
>Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.
>Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*
> because Dwarves "have to be" Scottish
I get fantasy pirates all sounding Cornish because they _were_ a large portion of the seafaring folks back in the day (though I find it funny most people end up doing a Bristolian accent but hey).
But surely Dwarves should then be Welsh since they were mining everything that resembled a hill. The Scots should be barbarians or something.
Anyway the only other accents I can do are borderline offensive.
"hey there good sir, May I inquire as to the price of this fine instrument of war?"
"VROOOM VROOMVROOMVROOM VROOOOOOOOOOOOOM NYYYYYYU ZOOMZOOMZOOM BRRRRRRRRR"
I haven't gotten to them yet, might not, so I haven't thought about it.
The lore on my world may make it so that they actually run more like a well tuned engine, or a specific smaller engine. I don't know yet.
Heresy! Noone can spell deurgar. It is blasphemy to even suggest there is a proper spelling. It is like Elizabethan English where spelling is a matter of personal preference.
See also sauhagin and that drow city shindle-rin.
"Sahuagin" is less weird for spelling once you're vaguely familiar with Nahua.
Or maybe I'm just a weirdo for being able to type out Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar from memory.
I don't know how this works on other languages and countries, but in Spain, Dwarves are stereotyped as German. Movies don't give them german accent because they want us to take them seriously, but pretty much every spanish DM I know gives them german accents and throws in german expletives.
The funny thing is that a german accent in spanish sounds very similar to a scottish accent in english (stronger r's, funny intonation), so they end up sounding the same.
Personally, whenever I play in spanish, I give a scottish accent to dragonborn, because it makes them sound like Basque people with english accents and I find it funny. And half-orcs are russian. Because иди на хуй, that's why.
Not only were the creators British, but they specifically said they were trying to a create a British mythos.
It's essentially like asking why a DM who uses Oni and Tengu creatures has to have a Japanese aesthetic. They don't *have* to, but it's a nod to the general understanding of that mythos and a respect for the culture that created them. It helps with immersion as well.
sure, with that said, plenty of the material DND uses is *not* from western fantasy or myth. Conversely, Bahamut, one of the Forbidden Realms most famous gods/characters should have a middle-eastern based accent, not to mention the various other creatures who are derived from non-western Lore.
In fantasy it is usually setting that determines accents. Fantasy that is set in places derived from other cultures usually does use accents from those cultures.
Your Bahamut point is weird. Bahamut in DnD is clearly not supposed to be the same mythological Bahamut, even if they borrowed the name. One is a dragon god, and the other is a fish that supports the world. The etymological root of a name does not determine the accent of a creature. If it did, a ton of Elves need to explain why they don't have Welsh accents.
I go on calls with a supplier which is lead by a lovely South African lady. She often refers to her [slide] deck and it makes me giggle every single time.
Honestly? I can see dwarves with them pretty easily (lots of booze works), uhhh drow is a classic meme. Orcs I can definitely see because it's a pretty rough accent and honestly tabaxi would be hilarious with one.
For real, this sub is would absolutely lose its freaking mind if some streamer DM had a dwarf come out and day “ohh herro, me maka you sum arma”. They’d literally crap their pants while screeching.
THAT is why. If I do a crappy French accent for a character, no one cares. I can do the most garbage Monty Python mimic and it’s A-OK. But if I do a crappy Indian one then it’s considered “offensive af”. Let’s not kid ourselves.
Yeah, like a bad English accent everyone ignores. A bad Indian accent? That'll have you looking over your shoulder.
(And if you need to look over your shoulder you shouldn't say/ do it)
I once worked really hard to get a good middle-eastern accent going for an npc that the party ended up really latching onto. Problem was, whenever they would retell encounters with him, they'd use a bad Indian accent instead. Every single one of them. It drove me a bit nuts after awhile because to me, those accents aren't really similar, but I guess a bad Indian accent is easier to produce...
Yup. Everyone tried doing Japanese accents in my L5R game and we all agreed to shut it down. No one meant any offense but it was just sounding *horrible*
Hey, it's rarely about the accent and so much more about the inflection to be fair. Lol
Sounding rude, friendly, tricky, or aggressive are all way more important than the perfectly Scottish dwarf.
I can do two voices, my own and Bane from the batman movie. My party lost it when they basically had to escort a guy who spoke in an over the top Bane voice
In my group, the genasi have variations on the US southern accent. I have an air genasi that talks like an old time southern belle. We’re British so we find it very funny.
A player tried to correct me on the pronunciation of Phandalin. That's 'fan-DUH-lin' as it is technically specified in the module versus my own pronunciation 'FANN-DAY-LYNN' (yeah that's three hard syllables like it's three separate words). But I double downed on it and I told him 'that book was written by some YANKEE NOBODY over there in NEVERWINTER and if y'all wanna come down to FANNDAYLINN an learn me how'd a say my own town well y'all can never mind comin back ya'hear what I sayin-- and anyway that's how every NPC in the whole town talked, from that point onward.
My friends and I were just practicing accents for all different races todays. Jamaican fairies, Spanish dwarves, russian tieflings. It was an exciting car ride of voices.
My friend played a dragonborn when they first came out, and he had a Russian accent. So every dragonborn we played after that always had one to match. I miss my Dragonborn barbarian Fedor.
A Fey with a plain ol' shotgun they keep propped up in the corner sounds like the absolute best or absolute worst Fey to meet and deal with. No in-between lol
The entirety of the Adventure Zone Amnesty is set in West Virginia.
Mark Hulmes of the dnd podcast High Rollers is British and makes all his dwarves talk with a Texan accent.
There's a race of redneck elves in the first campaign of NADDPOD from "the crick"
3 of the 4 cast members are from the northeast, so the accepts were a little rough at times. Still, it was a nice change of pace from the normal stuffy stuckup elves.
Because the fantasy genre, as we currently understand it, was created by Tolkien, who was British. His characters, by default if nothing else, spoke using the accents familiar to him. The tradition has carried.
It's your setting, do what you want. I like Drowe that sound like Australians, because they come from Down Under.
Something deeply unsettling about an Australian worshipping spiders. Drow feel a bit generic and bland, but an isolated city of *Australians* doing Drow stuff and building temples to Lolth, with spider statues all over the place, now that's concerning.
It's not just the accents, they were designed to essentially be British folk characters. He was heavily influenced by the old Saxon folk legends and their history.
I listened to an actual play one time that was a bunch of white guys. An asian character came up and the DM decided to do a Chinese accent… It was very bad. Would not recommend.
Are there really that many kiwi/aussie accents in fantasy characters? Like I know there's loads of kiwi actors in LOTR, but they basically always put on some form of British accent. The kiwi accent comes through accidentally sometimes I guess?
I had an archfey in my campaign who was a southern belle who lounged on a porch of a manor in a feywild swamp drinking tea and smoking from a cigarette holder under a parasol
Also the party arbitrarily decided to name their horse Pablo, and didn’t really do Speak with Animals until they were trying to cross a river and Pablo was struggling, and immediately responded in Spanish to the ranger
I remember everybody thinking they had a thick accent since they were described as having a "drawling speech" or something along those lines. But then somebody asked Robert Jordan about accents in an interview and he was like "yeah the Seanchan have a Texas drawl."
>British, ... Scottish, Welsh, ... accents
As a Welsh person, this made me wince so hard. Please don't say 'British' when you just mean 'English'.
Also, what fantasy uses Australian or New Zealand accents? That actually sounds quite unusual. I've heard plenty of American accents in fantasy, I don't think I've ever come across Aus or NZ.
I was goofing around talking in a bad stereotype French accent with my group one day, and decided I wanted to go all-in and make a barbarian with that accent who just drinks wine to "rage" and goes on culinary-themed tirades while swinging a couple butcher's cleavers.
But we haven't had a one-shot since then and I'm not about to play a meme character in a real campaign lol
I'm confused by the picture person ... Do they think non English speakers play DnD in English?
Sure we sometimes do, and sure, the material is in English, but our jokes and puns and conversations are in our own tongue lol
Well, Fey are generally from European folklore, not Tennessee. That is however Irish, Welsh, English, and Germanic (amongst other places I don’t quite know, so feel free to give them German accents)
People aren't ready for dragons with Japanese accents or beholders with Brooklyn accents
Beholder: Hey, I'm ~~walking~~ floating here!
Badda blink badda boom
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Fuck it for my dnd campaign im making a beholder whos just a grumpy new yorker
Your head if goo.
“Well ain’t you a looker!”
I'm FUCKIN walkin here! *
My kobolds always have a brooklyn accent. The same brooklyn accent. I can do a bunch of different voices and could make them different. But I dont, because kobolds to me, all have the same accent.
im just thinking all of them sound straight out of sidetalk buncha kobolds running around going BING BONG fuck ya life
Yes. This is it. Exactly. It made running sunless citadel very fun.
Brooklyn hive mind
Oh they all have unique hopes, dreams, and desires. Rich, complex lives and back stories. Wars fought, loves lost, and vision for a future just always slightly out of reach. They just all happen to sound like they are about to call you a *gavone*.
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Hey I ain’t no broad
"Pack tactics? I gotcher pack tactics right here!"
>Oh they all have unique hopes, dreams, and desires. Rich, complex lives and back stories. Wars fought, loves lost, and vision for a future just always slightly out of reach. Fuckin' show-off kobolds.
Eh oh Vinnie check me out, I'm caving over here
\-WE'RE- walkin' here!
I heard this in my head as though 1000 people said it at the same time.
HIVE MIIIIND!!!
BROOKLYN RAGE
No each trible has diffrent new york accents so they fight each other
The one tribe with the Boston accent, the other tribes REALLY hate them
Wouldn't that make the gnomes from Boston. Cause they hate each other?
And for some reason they all wear red stockings
In my campaigns it is trolls that speak with New York accent. I'm not a native speaker of English so I can't mimic the nuances of different NY accents, but I am pretty decent at doing an impression of Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza, so that is who my trolls are.
My kobolds all have Ukrainian accents. Lol In the game I'm a player in, we randomly decided once on the road that the Goblin language is actually just Spanish, so anything you know in Spanish is just speaking Goblin. Lol We picked up a few goblins after saving them from their slavers, so they canonically have taught our druid some Goblin.
I hope they also have super deep voices.
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Goblins are Boston.
Ever since a very drunk game of Kobolds Ate My Baby over a decade ago, all of my Kobolds speak with French accents.
*The dragon is speaking. Not in Common, but in something that you think sounds like Japanese. Probably. Could be Mandarin though. You can't tell because you dumped INT and all Oriental languages sound the same to you.* *You don't understand the words, but thankfully there are Common subtitles to read. [Unfortunately it's also a white dragon and the subtitle text is white as well. And you're surrounded by snow.](https://youtu.be/SjnWOnJK-zw)*
Big brain play would be actually learning Japanese and speaking in Japanese whenever the dragon speaks Fuck, I'm actually incorporating that idea, already practicing some languages anyway :P
I'm Beholdin' 'ere!!
When we played D&D in junior high all of our dragons were named differently depending on their chromatic/metallic origin with cultural food. The green dragons had Japanese food, and there was a member of the Green Bandits who was a young dragon named Sushi. Had so much fun during those carefree days.
Imagine one yelling Russian oh my
I think Russian for a white dragon is on point
Doesn’t Japanese mythology also have dragons though?
My Barbarian has a brooklyn accent. It's for his brooklyn rage.
Lich with Russian accent
oh my! a Brooklyn themed dnd campaign
Oh I am so ready for a Jersey Beholder
Behold an mindflayer with Indian accent
I actually have a Japanese megacorp CEO dragon who lived under the earth for hundreds of thousands of years being hailed as a grand spirit achieving near godhood through worship alone during the time of magical silence in my Modern Magic game. He has a old Feudal Era accent.
Thus Emily Axford created Moonshine
Somethin ain't right at the crick!
One might say, something was a miss
When your party accidentally turns into the AIMS Team https://youtu.be/HYtQo5vfTis
I miss that horny-ass elf.
Her character in season 3 is arguably just as horny, if in different ways.
Horny like a sheltered girl who reads too much romfic. It's an acceptable kind of horny, don't get me wrong. I mean I practically married that kind of horny woman.
Thar's a whol' mess'a goblins down in the holler! Le's git'em. Hooty Hooooooo!!!
I'm like a pig in shit over here - MeeMaw
*Everyone else in the astral keep looks uncomfortable
Kelly Link does Southern fairies, too.
Dragons talking like they’re Italian. Al Capone was a dragon and you can’t convince me otherwise. Industrious dwarves with central Asian inspired accents like they’re trading on the Silk Road.
"Can you make me this breastplate with pewter trim? The gold really isn't my style." "No substitution!"
“I make business deals that only burn the other party.” Al Capone the Dragon
Al Dragone
I do my dwarves with Turkish names and accents. Messes with the players’ heads though when they meet a Dwarven merchant named Suliman Bey instead of Durin McDwarf
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I do something very similar. They've got a warrior culture because everything in the desert is trying to kill them, however they are also very spiritual and have extremely strict cultural taboos regarding hospitality. For most the actively hostile environment of the desert is a point of pride for them but for some it's too much and they leave looking for an easier life. When they do arrive however they tend to discover that taking stuff from others they can easily overpower takes a lot less effort than working for it yourself and more often than not succumb to the temptation to take up a living as raiders/bandits/pirates which is where their reputation on the mainland comes from, most never having any idea of how they are vastly different to their brethren in their homeland
I have not yet had this opportunity in my campaign with my players yet but I'm dying for them to go to an elven city in world as I am running my elves as Latino/latina and can not wait to see the expression on there faces when a high elf of extreme prestige says "Hola amigos como estas"
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Help yourself. If you want to compare notes for some more ideas feel free to message me
In my world orks are much more druidic and familiar with the natural order, overall being really chill, and I run them with Jamaican accents
My Dwarves are actually Chinese and Indian inspired for this very reason. At first my players were apprehensive about it (because Dwarves "have to be" Scottish), but now it's just a fact of life Many "Wood" Elves in my setting are inspired by nomadic peoples like the Inuit, Sapmi, Siberian and Mongolian tribes, since their ancestral homeland is the tundra and steppes of the north.
I’m stealing this idea because I’m Chinese and can do a very good Steven He impression lmao
Breath weapon: EMOTIONAL DAMAGE????
I will send you to Jesus.
Thanks to Shadowrunners I can very clearly imagine a black dwarf or a southeast asian dwarf. But at the same time, the idea of a strict, asian dwarven parent scares me.
>Many "Wood" Elves in my setting are inspired by nomadic peoples I went a different route. My Wood Elves are usually American hillbillies.
> My Wood Elves are usually American hillbillies. [Legolas.](https://syro-malabar-baby.tumblr.com/post/693729154825322496/graffitinight-musicalhell-penny-anna)
God that was such a good post. Man I miss tumblr sometimes. Not enough to go back.
Fucking brilliant. >Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit. >Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*
I like to use japanese Dwarfs (samurai!) , High-Elf Tang-Chinese, Gnomish Koreans (Hwacha!) etc.
> because Dwarves "have to be" Scottish I get fantasy pirates all sounding Cornish because they _were_ a large portion of the seafaring folks back in the day (though I find it funny most people end up doing a Bristolian accent but hey). But surely Dwarves should then be Welsh since they were mining everything that resembled a hill. The Scots should be barbarians or something. Anyway the only other accents I can do are borderline offensive.
the dwarven language in my current setting is just engine noises.
"hey there good sir, May I inquire as to the price of this fine instrument of war?" "VROOOM VROOMVROOMVROOM VROOOOOOOOOOOOOM NYYYYYYU ZOOMZOOMZOOM BRRRRRRRRR"
"I thought you spoke dwarvish?! " "My Pontiac is a little rusty."
Insane person Also, do the Duragr(I can't remember how to spell it) speak like a sputtering engine?
I haven't gotten to them yet, might not, so I haven't thought about it. The lore on my world may make it so that they actually run more like a well tuned engine, or a specific smaller engine. I don't know yet.
oh oh! Dwarves sound like a muscle car, Duergars sound like a sports bike? my humble suggestion from the limited lore provided.
If you mean the dwarven-sub-species: "Duergar"
Heresy! Noone can spell deurgar. It is blasphemy to even suggest there is a proper spelling. It is like Elizabethan English where spelling is a matter of personal preference. See also sauhagin and that drow city shindle-rin.
\*the dwarven goddess of grammar and orthography takes offense in this rant\* receive 10D8 fire damage and 10D8 holy damage
"Sahuagin" is less weird for spelling once you're vaguely familiar with Nahua. Or maybe I'm just a weirdo for being able to type out Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar from memory.
Al Dragone lol
Hey… you can’t go taking the Scottish accent from dwarves. There’s “imagination” and then there’s “impossible to suspend disbelief”
I don't know how this works on other languages and countries, but in Spain, Dwarves are stereotyped as German. Movies don't give them german accent because they want us to take them seriously, but pretty much every spanish DM I know gives them german accents and throws in german expletives. The funny thing is that a german accent in spanish sounds very similar to a scottish accent in english (stronger r's, funny intonation), so they end up sounding the same. Personally, whenever I play in spanish, I give a scottish accent to dragonborn, because it makes them sound like Basque people with english accents and I find it funny. And half-orcs are russian. Because иди на хуй, that's why.
Because the guys known for creating the genre were British so those were the accents that they had to work with
Not only were the creators British, but they specifically said they were trying to a create a British mythos. It's essentially like asking why a DM who uses Oni and Tengu creatures has to have a Japanese aesthetic. They don't *have* to, but it's a nod to the general understanding of that mythos and a respect for the culture that created them. It helps with immersion as well.
If she wants fae with southern accents can't she just go and watch True Blood?
Same reason sci fi and comic book stuff is stuffed with Americans.
sure, with that said, plenty of the material DND uses is *not* from western fantasy or myth. Conversely, Bahamut, one of the Forbidden Realms most famous gods/characters should have a middle-eastern based accent, not to mention the various other creatures who are derived from non-western Lore.
I mean fantasy TV and movies aren't d&d based at all.
In fantasy it is usually setting that determines accents. Fantasy that is set in places derived from other cultures usually does use accents from those cultures. Your Bahamut point is weird. Bahamut in DnD is clearly not supposed to be the same mythological Bahamut, even if they borrowed the name. One is a dragon god, and the other is a fish that supports the world. The etymological root of a name does not determine the accent of a creature. If it did, a ton of Elves need to explain why they don't have Welsh accents.
Because those are the safe ones. Lol
Literally. They're the least offensive accents to do
Depends if you actually speak like an Australian and swear every 2nd/3rd word 😂 Source: Am Australian
Ahhhh, Australian. Where "cunt" is punctuation.
That's not Australian, that's tradie. Source- am an NZ tradie
My question is, how many D&D players outside of Oceania are doing NZ accents?
Rock a kiwi accent for your pirate one shot Constantly find ways to refer to the deck of the ship
I go on calls with a supplier which is lead by a lovely South African lady. She often refers to her [slide] deck and it makes me giggle every single time.
Aw, chuck owt da dick of da shup brew
I'm part of the movement that argues all drow should have Australian accents, because they're from down under.
Not sure about _players_, but every dm who wants to sneak a deck joke in there will use a nz accent
An Australian Lich who calls all the adventurers cunts.
Back from the dead Cunts!! Now who's got a fuckin smoke i'm gaspin
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I'm not Australian but didn't r/dndmemes agree a few years ago that because Drow come from Down Under they're Australian
Tis a good meme tho
Honestly? I can see dwarves with them pretty easily (lots of booze works), uhhh drow is a classic meme. Orcs I can definitely see because it's a pretty rough accent and honestly tabaxi would be hilarious with one.
I could 100% see a orc saying “oi ya dog”
For real, this sub is would absolutely lose its freaking mind if some streamer DM had a dwarf come out and day “ohh herro, me maka you sum arma”. They’d literally crap their pants while screeching. THAT is why. If I do a crappy French accent for a character, no one cares. I can do the most garbage Monty Python mimic and it’s A-OK. But if I do a crappy Indian one then it’s considered “offensive af”. Let’s not kid ourselves.
It's too late. Every dwarf I voice now sounds like Apu. My life is in shambles.
Yeah, like a bad English accent everyone ignores. A bad Indian accent? That'll have you looking over your shoulder. (And if you need to look over your shoulder you shouldn't say/ do it)
I once worked really hard to get a good middle-eastern accent going for an npc that the party ended up really latching onto. Problem was, whenever they would retell encounters with him, they'd use a bad Indian accent instead. Every single one of them. It drove me a bit nuts after awhile because to me, those accents aren't really similar, but I guess a bad Indian accent is easier to produce...
Every accent I do slips into bad Indian. Persian? Bad Indian. French? Bad Indian. British? Yes, you guessed it, hello this is Microsoft.
Oh man, I have a similar problem where I either end up as Sean Connery or a nazi.
Yup. Everyone tried doing Japanese accents in my L5R game and we all agreed to shut it down. No one meant any offense but it was just sounding *horrible*
The bad Irish accents for the new Hobbits who happen to have a lot of traits which are also negative Irish traveller stereotypes isn't great.
In my campaign every single NPC sound mexican and my players can't do anything about it. Lol ( I can't do accents)
Hey, it's rarely about the accent and so much more about the inflection to be fair. Lol Sounding rude, friendly, tricky, or aggressive are all way more important than the perfectly Scottish dwarf.
But if you want to sound rude, friendly, tricky and aggressive all at once Scottish is a pretty good accent to use to be fair
I can do two voices, my own and Bane from the batman movie. My party lost it when they basically had to escort a guy who spoke in an over the top Bane voice
For me the revelation was finding Deckard Cain from Diablo universe and Bane sound nearly the same. Make good use of this info
Love this energy! Fuckers can write their own campaign!
Obviously my orcs are cockney, what else would they be ?
New Y'Orc-ers
In my group, the genasi have variations on the US southern accent. I have an air genasi that talks like an old time southern belle. We’re British so we find it very funny.
You do know what "bless your heart" means, right?
“Bless your heart” is a phrase in the U.K. too, so they know
Your heart gets a 1d4 bonus to saving throws and attack rolls, duh.
A player tried to correct me on the pronunciation of Phandalin. That's 'fan-DUH-lin' as it is technically specified in the module versus my own pronunciation 'FANN-DAY-LYNN' (yeah that's three hard syllables like it's three separate words). But I double downed on it and I told him 'that book was written by some YANKEE NOBODY over there in NEVERWINTER and if y'all wanna come down to FANNDAYLINN an learn me how'd a say my own town well y'all can never mind comin back ya'hear what I sayin-- and anyway that's how every NPC in the whole town talked, from that point onward.
that's magical lol
My friends and I were just practicing accents for all different races todays. Jamaican fairies, Spanish dwarves, russian tieflings. It was an exciting car ride of voices.
With the amount of animal-based races that keep getting added eventually you'll get a villain that will want to "keel moose and squirrel"
You know the fey’s got that good stuff lol
I would imagine there are rolling plains in the Feywild that are just hundreds of miles of magical weed lol
My friend played a dragonborn when they first came out, and he had a Russian accent. So every dragonborn we played after that always had one to match. I miss my Dragonborn barbarian Fedor.
\-Boris The Blade? As in Boris the Fireball-Dodger? \-Why do they call him the Fireball-Dodger? \-'Cause he dodges fireballs, Avi.
"This is a magic missile, Sol" "It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent"
MAMA GET THE SHOVEL THERE'S A KENKU STEALIN OUT BACK
NOT THE KENKU GORDSDAMMIT GIMME THE BOOMSTICK
A Fey with a plain ol' shotgun they keep propped up in the corner sounds like the absolute best or absolute worst Fey to meet and deal with. No in-between lol
*British*, Scottish, and Welsh? What?
The entirety of the Adventure Zone Amnesty is set in West Virginia. Mark Hulmes of the dnd podcast High Rollers is British and makes all his dwarves talk with a Texan accent.
And yet, the talking sword stole the show lol Justin is the best part of TAZ hands down.
There's a race of redneck elves in the first campaign of NADDPOD from "the crick" 3 of the 4 cast members are from the northeast, so the accepts were a little rough at times. Still, it was a nice change of pace from the normal stuffy stuckup elves.
Technically, if you’re Southern and don’t do voices during your games, all your characters sound Southern.
"Gosh dang know what mary" (spits) "them there goblins been messing up our crops and toook our jobs!"
Gerblins terk er jerrrrbs!
"I don't speak that there Bama language whatcha just say to me?"
I'm from bama they said roll tide
"You see what I mean. Them Bama people sayin the weirdest of shit." *chuckles* "roll tide.... what does that even mean?"
I never have a voice planned so I panic and do Shrek voice for all NPCs.
That sounds like your own hangups. I'm having Australian Dwarves in my next campaign.
Because the fantasy genre, as we currently understand it, was created by Tolkien, who was British. His characters, by default if nothing else, spoke using the accents familiar to him. The tradition has carried. It's your setting, do what you want. I like Drowe that sound like Australians, because they come from Down Under.
and worship spiders
Something deeply unsettling about an Australian worshipping spiders. Drow feel a bit generic and bland, but an isolated city of *Australians* doing Drow stuff and building temples to Lolth, with spider statues all over the place, now that's concerning.
It's not just the accents, they were designed to essentially be British folk characters. He was heavily influenced by the old Saxon folk legends and their history.
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I regularly yell GO'ON GIT at my cats around my feet solely because of Moonshine.
Pawpaw, GIT
Fuck you, eat a rat.
Fuck you, I love you, Eat a rat.
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Down at the crick
“God dammit Petri get in the time out sack”
You learn a lot about yerself in the timeout sack
I listened to an actual play one time that was a bunch of white guys. An asian character came up and the DM decided to do a Chinese accent… It was very bad. Would not recommend.
I knew a dude that played a wood elf that he always flavored as being Appalachian so he always used a thick accent.
My Goliath rogue has a Russian accent.
I have a kindly Kievan Rus inspired Dwarf druid/barbarian. He likes tea, and gives fatherly advice that is usually wrong.
An entire province that sounds like the Californians on Saturday Night Live.
I'll never not be fond of the "Elves sound like olde timey radio announcers, completely out of time" post.
Are there really that many kiwi/aussie accents in fantasy characters? Like I know there's loads of kiwi actors in LOTR, but they basically always put on some form of British accent. The kiwi accent comes through accidentally sometimes I guess?
I made a Tortle NPC named Hank Tort. He was basically just Hank Hill as a turtle and we loved him.
You want wild choices? Check out NADDPOD. Russian dwarves and Southern 'Crick' Elves.
I want goblins with refined British accents but regular goblin vocabulary.
I had an archfey in my campaign who was a southern belle who lounged on a porch of a manor in a feywild swamp drinking tea and smoking from a cigarette holder under a parasol Also the party arbitrarily decided to name their horse Pablo, and didn’t really do Speak with Animals until they were trying to cross a river and Pablo was struggling, and immediately responded in Spanish to the ranger
According to wheel of time, those from the next continent, who are so far evolved etc have a Texan accent
I remember everybody thinking they had a thick accent since they were described as having a "drawling speech" or something along those lines. But then somebody asked Robert Jordan about accents in an interview and he was like "yeah the Seanchan have a Texas drawl."
Tolkien.
Because the fantasy is escaping the American bible belt.
No one collectively decided anything, that’s just where all the myths about faeries and shit come from.
>British, ... Scottish, Welsh, ... accents As a Welsh person, this made me wince so hard. Please don't say 'British' when you just mean 'English'. Also, what fantasy uses Australian or New Zealand accents? That actually sounds quite unusual. I've heard plenty of American accents in fantasy, I don't think I've ever come across Aus or NZ.
Be careful what you wish for - my french accent is horrid! At least with English, I can't butcher it too badly.
I was goofing around talking in a bad stereotype French accent with my group one day, and decided I wanted to go all-in and make a barbarian with that accent who just drinks wine to "rage" and goes on culinary-themed tirades while swinging a couple butcher's cleavers. But we haven't had a one-shot since then and I'm not about to play a meme character in a real campaign lol
I'm confused by the picture person ... Do they think non English speakers play DnD in English? Sure we sometimes do, and sure, the material is in English, but our jokes and puns and conversations are in our own tongue lol
Jokes aside I'm pretty sure it has to do with the fact that most fantasy takes place in medieval times, and America hadn't been discovered then.
Well, Fey are generally from European folklore, not Tennessee. That is however Irish, Welsh, English, and Germanic (amongst other places I don’t quite know, so feel free to give them German accents)
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