PCs with accents/voice acting help
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Does your PC have an accent or a special way they speak?
This is especially relevant for my fellow LARPers out there, but it applies for tabletop games as well assuming you actually bother to speak in-character at the table.
-Post voice samples of your PC.
-Critique other voice samples.
-If someone is trying out an accent, tell them it's shitor maybe give them some advice
-Share stories about players over the years who've had really awful or notably good accents.
http://vocaroo.com/delete/s1LxUg67CcN2/dceb4856bc9856f2
I am an American living near New York City and I've been playing a character for about 3 years at a LARP who is supposed to speak with an Irish accent. There are actually a lot of races at this game who have required accents. The people who wrote the game's world in their infinite wisdom decided to create two races who are almost identical except one speaks with an Irish accent and the other with a Scottish accent. Most Americans are terrible with foreign accents to begin with, and as a consequence we get a lot of players just kinda mashing the two together into a ridiculous mess.
There are people who've been playing the same character for over a decade who roll their R's like in an exaggerated Scottish accent while trying to do a Irish accent and it drives me absolutely bonkers.
Related to the OP, how do you feel about people using modern vernacular in fantasy settings? This came up while talking to some of my fellow LARPers the other day. We were bashing another local game because they allowed players to swear and curse all they wanted and it resulted in the bulk of their player base saying things like:
>"We're gonna go over there and fuck up those goblins! Fuck yea!"
We find that to be pretty darn jarring and pulls us out of the game.
>>45876266
Do you speak old English or Elvish fluently? With a full grasp of syntax and references to your settings fantasy pop culture?
If not use your everyday vocabulary
>>45876303
In this particular game you are required to use certain accents to play certain races, similar to costuming requirements. The game's executive committee has even told players to STOP using accents that aren't included in the game's rules. For example one player decided he wanted his Southern Barbarian to speak like a Southern gentleman as if he were Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind or something. He was told to stop.
In general, though, I agree with you.
>>45876266
If there's specifically modern words you want to avoid, then avoid them. But "fuck" specifically is like 1500 years old, it's been part of the English language since the saxons invaded.
>>45876337
Those accent rules are stupid in the first place.
Literally never once met a player who was competent enough to do a voice for their character, and gave enough of a shit to commit to it or put effort in.
I have no reason to believe it's something players are capable of doing.
>>45876342
True but "fuck" isn't typically used in exactly that context in these sorts of settings. The players saying it like they did in >>45876266 sound more like frat boys than medieval warriors on an epic adventure.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0CgrF1DrrE1
>>45876392
You haven't read much on the behavior or medieval warriors, I take it?
>>45876404
Not talking about behavior. We're talking about vocabulary and vernacular.
does anyone know how to speak german in a japanese or mongol accent?
>>45876352
If it makes you feel any better the accent races are mostly garbage so on top of being harder to roleplay as they're also not very good. The only people who play them are the ones who want to give the whole accent thing a whirl.
>>45876245
I fucking love the Austin Powers movies. Just saying.
>>45876394
That was pretty good. You have a nice voice.
>>45876245
One of my players does a russian accent. I really wish he'd drop it for two reasons:
1. Hes terrible at it
2. It makes him speak really soft and slow and monotonous and ruins his roleplay
>>45876266
there was one time when a player used "fuck yeah!" on a larp in a conversation between him and us before he run of to do some errands.
Let's note that he used those english words on a hungarian larp.
And our group leader was basically an inquisitor
so when he come back he was quickly restrained and questioned about the strange language he used. Obviously he didn't realized what is this about so one of our guys was asked to repeat what he heard. He basically said something like this.
"My good lord, I fear to even repeat those words but to my knowledge it was a very sinister phrase, used to by cultist when they sacrificing newborn children to their dark gods., it was... Fuck... yeah!"
After that we made up some work for him that he can do for the local priest to repent his sins.
On the same larp after we captured an undead death knight and restrained him for questioning our leader asked the rethoric question of "what should we do with him?"
A kid answered from the back rows pretty nonchalantly with "let's fuck him in the ass!" (this time it was in hungarian at least)
after two seconds the kid was already pressed to the ground by two guys from the inquisitors retinue and shouting at him "REPENT YOUR SINS SODOMITE!"
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Sf1pERwrTG
Really doesn't help that I come off as lispy as fuck over the mic.
>>45876489
Watch Schwarzesmarken
>>45878503
No one sounds like they think they do when they hear themselves recorded.
I messed around with voice altering software in an attempt to make a suitably intimidating tech-priest voice. What do you think? Also, does this recording sound quiet to you? I may have to up my gain.
>>45878914
Myeees, might work better if I include the link.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s18TBBVgDH16
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0yfdsLzPkeT
>>45876394
>>45878941
I like this.
>>45878503
I think it's pretty good.
>>45876394
What mic do you use? The quality is brilliant!
>>45876245
only if I want to have a good timeIf I want to infuriate my arch nemesis at the table I simply take dismissive, authoritarian positions on everything while using my normal voice so he can't tell if I'm serious or not. He will be booted one day, mark my words.
