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Do you use voices?

Started by Simlasa, September 07, 2016, 01:04:14 PM

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soltakss

#30
September 08, 2016, 03:00:58 PM
I use several voices:
Powerful magician (Sounds like James Earl Jones, in my head)
Dark Side Illuminate (Sounds like Darth Vader)
Seductress (Sounds like James Earl Jones as a women)
Sniveller (Doesn't sound like James Earl Jones)
Everyone else (Sounds like me with/without an accent)
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#31
September 08, 2016, 04:21:50 PM
Quote from: soltakss;917966I use several voices:
Powerful magician (Sounds like James Earl Jones, in my head)
Dark Side Illuminate (Sounds like Darth Vader)
Seductress (Sounds like James Earl Jones as a women)
Sniveller (Doesn't sound like James Earl Jones)
Everyone else (Sounds like me with/without an accent)
Haha! I will have to remember this one. :D

yosemitemike

#32
September 08, 2016, 04:37:16 PM
I have a lot of trouble doing voices for female characters and having them sound different from each other.  They tend to devolve into one of a few stock types.  Trying to do a woman's voice and a character voice at the same time is tough for me to sustain for any length of time.
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Bren

#33
September 08, 2016, 08:41:17 PM
Quote from: yosemitemike;918002I have a lot of trouble doing voices for female characters and having them sound different from each other.  They tend to devolve into one of a few stock types.  Trying to do a woman's voice and a character voice at the same time is tough for me to sustain for any length of time.
Sometimes (usually with voices that are uncomfortable to voice) I will do the voice to establish the character and then once it is clear who they are and what they sound like, I drop back to my normal speaking voice. My wife did the same thing with her old Runequest character Donn the Humakti Runepriest Duck. He sounded like Donald Duck, so she could only keep up that hoarse voice for a while before it got uncomfortable.
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#34
September 08, 2016, 09:04:19 PM
Quote from: Bren;918068Sometimes (usually with voices that are uncomfortable to voice) I will do the voice to establish the character and then once it is clear who they are and what they sound like, I drop back to my normal speaking voice. My wife did the same thing with her old Runequest character Donn the Humakti Runepriest Duck. He sounded like Donald Duck, so she could only keep up that hoarse voice for a while before it got uncomfortable.

I do that quite a bit simply because I have a hard time sustaining a female voice and a character voice for any length of time.
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PrometheanVigil

#35
September 09, 2016, 07:32:30 AM
Quote from: BedrockBrendan;917856I tried doing an Irish accent during one session and my players thought the NPC was Italian.

That is, like, the second most popular accent to do, like ever! That whole blended Irish Scotch sound where it doesn't sound Irish and it doesn't sound Scottish but sounds kinda like either. Highlander accent, I call it.

Quote from: CRKrueger;917863There's a few accents I can do.  Most of the time it's cadence and speech patterns, body language or tone shift.  I don't pitch much.  I did a female voice recording once for a Shadowrun voice message system.  My throat hurt like hell while I was doing it, but the players thought it was awesome.  After that I got girls to record stuff like that for me if I ever needed it.

Jesus Christ man, why'd the hell'd you put yourself through all that?

Quote from: Manzanaro;917868I do different ways of speaking without really thinking about it. I've been told I'm really good at female voices, though I have a deep voice. Found that kind of bemusing. I tend to avoid accents unless they are in the handful of broad accents that I can do.

Did you know Trey Parker and Matt Stone do literally EVERY voice on South Park? EVEN the female ones. I was shocked. Pretty good -- then again, they do have a professional studio and voice modulators and all kinds of crazy shit.
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#36
September 09, 2016, 08:40:21 AM
I have fun with voices but generally only as a GM. I don't bother with them as a player.
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#37
September 09, 2016, 10:40:15 AM
Good god, no, I don't do 'voices' when GMing. I find them pretty ridiculous, with accents, and men effecting high-pitched, 'womens' voices being just the worst. As a player I've always found a GM that puts on voices to be an eye-rolling experience.

When I roleplay NPCs, I mess around with diction, slang, and pacing based upon the NPC's background, status, and reaction. I use my regular speaking voice for both men and women NPCs.

Headless

#38
September 09, 2016, 11:09:58 AM
It's definatly a risk.  Fuck it up and it's funny, or sucks or distracting.  But it's a way to push your self to improve your role playing.  I really find it helps to set character, if I'm talking like a greasy uneducated hood,  it reminds me to play like a greasy undereducated hood.

Like I said I started with voices as a player.  One voice at a time one character to keep track of.  I am trying to bring them over bit by bit to the DMing side but there is so much to keep track of I won't do many voices just one or two.

As much as they can be taxing and sometimes fail, I like trying to push my role playing so I will keep at it.

flyingmice

#39
September 09, 2016, 11:58:57 AM
I should be a voice actor
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#40
September 09, 2016, 12:04:43 PM
I use voices, and affect, and acting. My idea is that my voice and performance is somewhere between my own voice and the character's voice, and translated into English from whatever the actual language would be. I don't want myself or my players to think the player's voice literally is exactly what the character's voice is, both because it places too much demand on player acting/voice skills, and it would limit and impact what would be possible for the characters and the characters' social and language skills, etc. After all, many players want to play characters that aren't like them (and may be very different), and certainly the world's NPCs shouldn't be limited to the skills and voice range of the GM.

Spinachcat

#41
September 09, 2016, 12:41:21 PM
Use voices? I hear voices and they tell me what to do! :)

I have a variety of terrible accents at my disposal that I use frequently. I have been told my demons and women NPCs are quite convincing. [insert joke about their similarities] But from my perspective, my use of gestures, posture and body acting goes much farther for immersion than my voice impressions.

And I fully agree that YouTube acting tutorials are highly recommended for GMs.

Elfdart

#42
September 09, 2016, 02:33:16 PM
Quote from: soltakss;917966I use several voices:
Powerful magician (Sounds like James Earl Jones, in my head)
Dark Side Illuminate (Sounds like Darth Vader)
Seductress (Sounds like James Earl Jones as a women)
Sniveller (Doesn't sound like James Earl Jones)
Everyone else (Sounds like me with/without an accent)

I can only do James Earl Jones when I have a moderate cold. A mild cold and I sound like Isaac Hayes and a bad one makes me talk like Barry White. Only I don't use the word "Baby" at the end of every sentence.
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yosemitemike

#43
September 09, 2016, 06:26:23 PM
Quote from: flyingmice;918168I should be a voice actor

You could try to get into the glamorous, high paying world of anime dub voice acting.
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Shipyard Locked

#44
September 09, 2016, 07:19:26 PM
I used to use voices.

I'm actually pretty good at them too, and have a considerable stable. But eventually they start to feel like a crutch to characterization, and you can't easily re-use them without accidentally evoking some other NPC the players met in the past.

It also intimidates new players, who then feel they are doing something wrong if they don't follow suit.

I don't really do them anymore.
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