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Playing someone with an accent or something similar?

Started by Cylonophile, July 26, 2010, 03:55:39 AM

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Cylonophile

July 26, 2010, 03:55:39 AM
I know some good gamers who have annoying habits.

One of which is playing characters with accents or who speak english as a second language, and insisting on doing the accent or poor english.

Ever watch "matalacopalypse" on cartoon network? Imagine gaming with guys who talk in character like the swedes from that show.

Or groundskeeper willie....

Or boris badenov...

Or apache chief. (Oh god, that one was bad....)

Or Hercule Poirot. (Ze horror, ze horror...)

 When playing a character with an accent do you usually talk in the accent to play in character and if so do you run the accent as a joke or seriously? It's fun at times, but man can it get old...
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Saphim

#1
July 26, 2010, 03:58:05 AM
I only talk in the accent if I can pull it off without the whole table giggling.
 

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July 26, 2010, 04:09:39 AM
I have a friend who made our shortlived Witchcraft game way more hilarious than it was meant to be due to his bad Russian accent.
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#3
July 26, 2010, 04:14:37 AM
I always speak in accents, usually after a short while they morph into a very bad Arnie accent.

I find that this enhances the game experience.
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July 26, 2010, 05:00:25 AM
Always do accents but I figure if I can run one at a Murder mystery weekend for 3 days and actually convince people I am Irish/South African/French/Italian/Scots its probably good enough for an RPG.
In my PBEM game I try to give each NPC a different 'voice' as well so hopefully the players can tell who is speaking without me havign to point it out. Seems to be working so far.
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July 26, 2010, 05:08:05 AM
Always do accents but I figure if I can run one at a Murder mystery weekend for 3 days and actually convince people I am Irish/South African/French/Italian/Scots its probably good enough for an RPG.
In my PBEM game I try to give each NPC a different 'voice' as well so hopefully the players can tell who is speaking without me havign to point it out. Seems to be working so far.
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July 26, 2010, 08:27:58 AM
Quote from: Saphim;396076I only talk in the accent if I can pull it off without the whole table giggling.

I'm the exact reverse , I only do accents as campy comic relief .
I reserve them for "lite" games , usally filler between "heavy" campagins .

Spinachcat

#7
July 26, 2010, 12:38:14 PM
My accents are terrible and I use them often.

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#8
July 26, 2010, 12:59:40 PM
When your character has an accent, everyone knows when you're speaking in character...

It doesn't happen often, but yeah, we do it. I've had a soft-spoken Dublin accented fighter and a friend has had a monty python accented Frenchman. It becomes part of the character over a longer campaign.

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#9
July 26, 2010, 01:04:50 PM
Typically, I use accents seriously. And badly.
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July 26, 2010, 01:13:56 PM
If I need to be serious and can't pull off an accent, I will instead usually adopt a special tone, meter or facial expression to signal to my players when I am switching to a different NPC voice.  After awhile you have to get very creative.  I think one of my more "out there" ideas (but most successful) was the use of beer cans.

In one of my campaign worlds there are intelligent constructs.  For the purpose of this discussion they are functionally similar to Warforged.  Anyway, if I needed to give an important construct a voice I would speak into an empty can.  Even developed a collection of three sizes for some important NPCs.  

You should try it some time.  Don't waste the beer.  Wash the cans between sessions.  :D
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#11
July 26, 2010, 01:16:09 PM
I do accents, hilariously bad. I also have a series of "pro-wrestler" voices which I think are awesome. Stay in school, brother!

One of the regular players at regular LFR gamenight is from Ireland. He once asked me why I made all of the villians british. I said "I find the British to be sinister".

He said he agreed.
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July 26, 2010, 03:14:15 PM
Quote from: Abyssal Maw;396146One of the regular players at regular LFR gamenight is from Ireland. He once asked me why I made all of the villians british. I said "I find the British to be sinister".

He said he agreed.
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July 26, 2010, 05:22:45 PM
I'm fairly good with accents (due to a combination of luck, being multilingual, and a world traveller), and I use a lot of characters with accents in my games.  They're generally well-received.

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July 27, 2010, 12:03:55 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;396178I'm fairly good with accents (due to a combination of luck, being multilingual, and a world traveller), and I use a lot of characters with accents in my games.  They're generally well-received.

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Kick my sad ass off the board,
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You can\'t take the net from me.

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