tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post1652055188605895574..comments2024-03-28T22:00:35.840-07:00Comments on Playing D&D With Porn Stars: VoicesZak Sabbathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-82653004189694853572010-05-17T20:31:55.063-07:002010-05-17T20:31:55.063-07:00When it comes to accents I find that I slip out of...When it comes to accents I find that I slip out of them really easily if I get distracted. I have a decent English accent I can pull out but it's a bastardization of Northern and Welsh.<br /><br />I can do southern very well but then again I'm from Indy and my Mom's from Tennessee. :PJohn D. Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03737730972839204308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-30076373671362073202010-05-11T21:15:28.781-07:002010-05-11T21:15:28.781-07:00Heh. My trigger phrase for doing a Boris Karloff/F...Heh. My trigger phrase for doing a Boris Karloff/Frankenberry accent is the word "antipasto" prounounced with a lisp. <br /><br />Hey Delta, remember how I nearly killed us all at Gen Con '05 switching from MacGoohen brothers Scottish to James Hong styled Chinese in mid sentence?BigFellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03052419088140204154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-88917228165823662902010-05-10T14:31:46.737-07:002010-05-10T14:31:46.737-07:00I don't think I've ever met a GM worth the...I don't think I've ever met a GM worth their NaCl that wasn't at least a latent theater ham. :)<br /> <br />Any chance we can hear about the CoC game?A GMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14013007369310498835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-86391337344186722622010-05-08T17:55:33.021-07:002010-05-08T17:55:33.021-07:00I think you are a highly romantic DM putting on fo...I think you are a highly romantic DM putting on foreign accents as you do and telling us all about your travels.Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02496748499837036341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-70795312842421681812010-05-08T11:34:33.553-07:002010-05-08T11:34:33.553-07:00For Danish, I usually use Lars Ulrich as a templat...For Danish, I usually use Lars Ulrich as a template -- provided, of course, I want the character to be completely ulikeable.d. emerson eddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04274023881701214216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-64449373153172214252010-05-08T09:20:46.749-07:002010-05-08T09:20:46.749-07:00Great! I learned the "trigger phrase" c...Great! I learned the "trigger phrase" concept when I was (briefly) doing the Comedia del Arte in the SCA. My favorites are "My name ‘s Inigo Montoya. You kill my father; prepare to die" and Toshiro Mifune in Red Sun in response to the question "Are you still going to kill me?" "Uum. Co be."<br /><br />When I was doing Bureau 13 regularly I did a huge number of accents but am horribly out of practice now. Still, the entertainment value of hearing my Japanese, German or Pakistani slip and slide into Scottish cannot be underestimated. Yes, all accents are Scottish now. But who knows what someone from the Yeomanry sounds like vs. a Keolander anyway. So now it is orc, kobold, high-class, peasant, tough merc. and educated (wizard or cleric). With variations for good. evil and "the PCs are still trying to figure it out."<br /><br />I'd love to hear your Melnibonean on IHIWMA.AGCIAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555314975157295572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-84341913734882183622010-05-08T09:05:38.381-07:002010-05-08T09:05:38.381-07:00He do the police in different voices!
Also: "...He do the police in different voices!<br /><br />Also: "It still needs some work, as my Jamaican tends to slide (bizarrely) into my Irish if I talk long enough. It doesn't come up much in D&D though." -- Ahhh, <i>Black</i> Irish.Adam Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06368676086759298705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-38850034644475906462010-05-08T08:05:49.822-07:002010-05-08T08:05:49.822-07:00I would love to hear all of these. Make it a bonus...I would love to hear all of these. Make it a bonus episode of just you as a talking head. A jamaican-irish-NYCjewish-southernUS-cockney-russian spelljamming merchant perhaps, who has seen so many cultures he can't remember which one to stick to.<br /><br />Dungeondad is crap at accents, everything comes out as Russian, which he is actually pretty good at. When a DM does a woman they always try and make her sound 'sexy' or 'confused' which is funny.Fran Terminiellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506269178716477521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-7306365628539740552010-05-08T04:55:38.375-07:002010-05-08T04:55:38.375-07:00What might work for tough guy russian types is the...What might work for tough guy russian types is the phrase "Shot fock op!" (for, obviously, Shut the fuck up), as used by William Gibson in, I believe, Virtual Light for a russian-american cop.Grylockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11316448663237395601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-63115723036520279572010-05-08T04:41:38.028-07:002010-05-08T04:41:38.028-07:00Hrm, the Danish always sound Generic American to m...Hrm, the Danish always sound Generic American to me. Weird.<br /><br />My <i>Pendragon</i> GM runs his Saxons with WWII movie German accents. We all know it's wrong, but we love it.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-84060185183558512102010-05-08T04:13:56.373-07:002010-05-08T04:13:56.373-07:00The trigger phrase reminded me of this Family Guy ...The trigger phrase reminded me of this Family Guy skit..<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EY3aXwBiX8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EY3aXwBiX8</a>erwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00349701293338860405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-39027049440897465222010-05-08T02:37:12.692-07:002010-05-08T02:37:12.692-07:00Should say "hallmark of the accent."Should say "hallmark of the accent."Jaysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652611193354218021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-45293594727143027252010-05-08T02:35:44.198-07:002010-05-08T02:35:44.198-07:00The trigger phrase is often my in as well--or at l...The trigger phrase is often my in as well--or at least a "key word" whose phonemes serve as a hallmark of the class.<br /><br />Also, my Melnibonean types usually sound like David Bowie in Labyrinth.Jaysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652611193354218021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-50773685512306448922010-05-08T00:32:07.838-07:002010-05-08T00:32:07.838-07:00Most of my accents & voices have to come from ...Most of my accents & voices have to come from a character. I generally have to visualize the character mentally (to a degree) to get the voice down. Some take a bit of warm-up, if it's been a while. Useful for D&D games, though used out of necessity (to a degree) for Star Wars games. It's not just the sound of the voice, but the speaking pattern of the voice as well (like the harsh, bitter tone of the Emperor/Darth Sidious, which tends to soften to a more "pleasant" tone from time to time, based on the topic).<br /><br />Currently, Henchman #21 and #24 from The Venture Bros. are the easiest ones for me to do now. So I'm definitely looking for opportunities to use those regularly in-game (perhaps as a pair of regular NPCs, or even hirelings for the PCs).<br /><br />(Doesn't help matters much that I look much like [a non-fit version of] Henchman #21/Gary.)Darth Jodochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10085237380283130326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-35561463684828571372010-05-07T21:01:45.793-07:002010-05-07T21:01:45.793-07:00PS. Since I'm drunk, I'd like to cross bri...PS. Since I'm drunk, I'd like to cross briefly into the porn part of your blog, and offically say how much I like Kimberly Kane in her non-D&D profession. Very much.SirAllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106665195318475302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-12340981579587551502010-05-07T20:58:49.652-07:002010-05-07T20:58:49.652-07:00Regarding accents, I unfortunately am terrible, mu...Regarding accents, I unfortunately am terrible, much to my players delight. Everyone starts as an angry Irishman and morphs into the doctor from the old Ed Zachary Syndrome joke. My players tell me every voice I do sounds like Jerry Seinfeld crossed with Howard Cosell.<br /><br />Fun post Zak. I liked your goblin voice.SirAllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106665195318475302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-67059460270002807712010-05-07T20:49:43.827-07:002010-05-07T20:49:43.827-07:00"For most others, I need a 'trigger' ..."For most others, I need a 'trigger' phrase--something I can say that tells me where all the parts of the mouth go"<br /><br />Exactly how I do it.Deltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705402326320853684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-74834789423937757132010-05-07T19:09:32.854-07:002010-05-07T19:09:32.854-07:00Your female Russian quote is side-splitting hilari...Your female Russian quote is side-splitting hilarious. That will be in my repertoire from now on.Vastadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06065276531794551915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-91318202085344123442010-05-07T16:35:10.958-07:002010-05-07T16:35:10.958-07:00The only accent I can pull off with any regularity...The only accent I can pull off with any regularity is badly Japanese accented English. Which is really just an impression of a number of elderly Shotokan Karate instructors from the early 90s that taught at a number of seminars and demonstrations I went to. It's fairly grumbly, and now that I think about it, it uses the same tongue positioning you describe for your kind of Orc voice. The main active component is switch Rs for Ls. Such as "Reft reg" for "Left leg". "Reft" actually came up a lot in the seminars, body positioning being important in teaching techniques and whatnot. <br /><br />Accents are not really my forte. But I do agree with squidman. This would make an excellent podcast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-18570267033832400202010-05-07T16:30:40.140-07:002010-05-07T16:30:40.140-07:00I love voices and accents and have become pretty g...I love voices and accents and have become pretty good at them over the years. Oddly I can't do a good German accent for more than a few seconds. It always ends up transforming into one of the other accents I am better at (usually Russian or a faux-Norse sounding Norwegian).<br /><br />My best voice ever is so difficult to do I hardly use it except for NPCs who are not intended to hang around long. It was first used for an alien in a Star Wars game. <br /><br />I essentially pay close attention to my breathing and try to breathe in when I would normally breathe out. Add a slightly higher pitch than my normal speaking voice and you get this damn freaky sound that hurts the throat a little if I do more than a few lines of continuous dialog.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-24303136542019044172010-05-07T15:56:31.244-07:002010-05-07T15:56:31.244-07:00Cool. I can do just Spanish accent, German (as pro...Cool. I can do just Spanish accent, German (as probably everyone in here can), and Irish, based on Banshee in Gen X movie. Need to educate myself. *nod*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-60528878310311720182010-05-07T15:29:08.648-07:002010-05-07T15:29:08.648-07:00Nice entry, but I'd prefer if it was a podcast...Nice entry, but I'd prefer if it was a podcast. <br /><br />Your goblin is very good AND funny. And you have a very nice NYC accent which is also funny, at least for me.<br /><br />For me, doing voices is much easier in english than it is in polish, which is quite obvious, since practically all voices to do, are those listed by you (that is english spoken by foreigners). The only voice I imitate well in polish is "the americanized pole from chicago". <br /><br />Not very useful in RPGs. <br /><br />Anyway, it would be bitchin' if you provided us with some samples.squidmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03486198900111225929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-63779531264860312182010-05-07T15:09:19.604-07:002010-05-07T15:09:19.604-07:00Wait I'm sorry, I must have dropped some acid,...Wait I'm sorry, I must have dropped some acid, I thought I read that you use a Johnny Rotten impression for Melniboneans. WHICH IS HILARIOUS.<br /><br />I have a bunch of goblin voices, & generic Slav-ish. The ish being, sort of. Oh & a mean Peter Lorre, I figured out. Which is sort of just another goblin.mordicaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05713766652793265867noreply@blogger.com