Iksander
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 | | 06/22/2005 5:11 AM |
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Iksander
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1010 Posts
| | 06/22/2005 5:11 AM |
| I do a great russian accent (well, slav is probably more accurate), irish and scottish accent. Unless I'm DM'ing. For some reason, I fall apart when it comes to accents when I'm DM'ing. It's not nerves or stage-fright or anything. After DM'ing for 15+ years, you get over that pretty fast. I think it's just that my brain is so over-loaded with things to think about that my language centre is currently occupied by three NPC's, and a catalogue of their actions and consequences in relation to the PC's, so it can't process an accent.
A bit like a Pentium-M when presented with a Photoshop filter and then asked to run Halo 2 at the same time [:D] | |
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Ghendar
Warlord
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| | 06/22/2005 7:30 AM |
| The problem with some accents is that they conjure up images of very specific movie and TV characters.
For instance, If I hear a scottish accent, I invariably think of Scotty from Star Trek. | |
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Vulturedoodle
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| | 06/22/2005 8:10 AM |
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Originally posted by glauron
Thanks to extended exposure to Sean Connery and Scotty, I can sort of do the Scot's accent; and some Irish ancestry gives me a start with the brogue. After those two, things start to get pretty thin.
Ummm, Connery is Welsh, I believe. Still, I understand what you're saying. My problem is that all my UK accents end up sounding like a Monty Python character. About the only thing I can do with any accuracy is a deaf/mute.
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Corim Danex
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6621 Posts
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| | 06/22/2005 8:19 AM |
| | I remember at one point trying to develop some speaking styles/accents for different NPC's. I couldn't even keep them consistent in practice before giving up on implementing them in game. Well, I don't think that campaign I started designing as a teenager ever got played anyway... I think it's challenging enough thinking of personality and what the character will do in a given situation that adding significant language differences from my own is challenging. | |
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Siddartha of Suburbia
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2277 Posts
| | 06/22/2005 8:29 AM |
| The character of mine that comes up most often in this forum is the 12th level swashbuckler duelist, and guess what kind of accent he had?
Just to warm up I would say, "My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die." [:D]
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Frederyck
Sneak
133 Posts
Uppsala, Sweden
| | 06/22/2005 8:29 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Vulturedoodle
Ummm, Connery is Welsh, I believe.
Nope. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. And he's always been very pro-Scotland on all accounts. This is something that was quite funny in the movie Highlander, where Scotsman Connery played a Spanish guy, and Christopher Lambert, who was raised in Switzerland, played a Highlander... | |
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Vulturedoodle
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| | 06/22/2005 12:54 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Frederyck
quote:
Originally posted by Vulturedoodle
Ummm, Connery is Welsh, I believe.
Nope. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. And he's always been very pro-Scotland on all accounts. This is something that was quite funny in the movie Highlander, where Scotsman Connery played a Spanish guy, and Christopher Lambert, who was raised in Switzerland, played a Highlander...
Well damn me...I've labored under a misconception all these years. And I agree about Highlander. Never could figure out why in the world they cast someone with *his* accent as a Scotsman. But Connery was terrific as Ramirez. Here in the US, we can accept a UK accent as a good stand-in for almost anything. Especially Roman.
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glauron
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Sydney, Australia
| | 06/22/2005 9:47 PM |
| Sean Connery as the spanish peacock was bad enough, but his Russian accent (Hunt for Red October) was abyssmal. Perhaps he should have taken elocution lessons from Iskander.
I aslo find myself agreeing with Iskander (is this cause for concern?)on the difficulty of DMing NPCs with accents - there is just too much else going on.
I sort of liked doing Failin in 'Shadows of the Last War', but the players kept asking me not to talk so fast, hehe. | |
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kyrin
Commander
3152 Posts
| | 06/23/2005 11:00 AM |
| I occasionally use racial accents, when I can remember. I've taken to giving goblins a sort-of vaguely Eastern European accent, with a little Zathras from Babylon 5 mixed in.
Dwarves have accents from England and Scotland. I just love that Brian Blessed "WHAAAAAAAAT?" coming out of a dwarves' mouth.
For orcs, I just out mt lower jaw for the "tusk" effect, but that can get tiring. I also occasionally go for a Lothar of the Hill People Effect, or Mako from the Conan movies (MA-ny YEARS a-GO...), for the Mountain Orcs.
Gnomes? Nasal and high-pitched, like a short used-car salesman. "Hi, howya doin'?"
Elves just talk like upper-middle class twits. [)]
And after LoTR, Halflings are Irish and Welsh, all the way...
Now, my world is based on Ancient Greece, so these accents are "exotic" indeed. It adds some color, but sometimes I get in the zone and forget.
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Ghendar
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| | 06/23/2005 11:59 AM |
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Originally posted by Vulturedoodle
[quote] Here in the US, we can accept a UK accent as a good stand-in for almost anything.
yes, absolutely!
And if it's an attractive female with that accent? Hubba, hubba. | |
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