D&D 5E What do Derro sound like?

[rgoodbb]

I'm going to be DM'ing a 1-shot with a bunch of Derro, a Derro Savant and a Chuul in it. I am wondering what they sound like. I will incorporate their paranoia and quirkiness and I like doing voices. How would you hear them?

High Voice or Low? Accent or No?

Cheers.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

There was a voiced Derro in Sword Coast Leg Ends. He was a Tiax rip-off. His voice was high and manic. Think Ben Gunn on helium.

 

[Mordhau]

tHEy sOunD LIke tHiS.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Chipmunks.

They sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks.

 

[LordEntrails]

Like giraffes, they sound exactly like giraffes.

If you have trouble with that, personally I would go deep. Bu that's based on dwarf stereotypes. Just make them sound like different. Doesn't matter how, your players will pick up on it and enjoy it.

 

[Blackrat]

Yeah, they’re kind of an offshoot of dwarves, so I’d go deep. In the serious end of deep. As deep as you can go, and if you have access to voice modulation then even a bit deeper

 

[Wilphe]

Derro

The Derro did not write this and they cannot see you reading it (Derro agent Terje Nordin has recovered this original Derro Recording as P...

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The Derro did not make me link to this

 

[steeldragons]

They're kinda "medium toned." Not "deep and gravelly" like dwarves. Not "high pitched melodic" like pixies. More a scratchy quality than "gravel."

Like a Tenor that's smoked too much. Oo! Or a late years Lucille Ball or Phyllis Diller. Kinda "deep for a human female"...but that's the males.

ALSO, everything they say in their dwarf mixed with undercommon personal language, includes or ends with a syllable that sounds to most ears like "-der [dair]." So/and even when you translate into "Common" (by magic or the rare Savant that might speak Common) "-ders" and "-dairs" and "d's" are strewn through the phrasing. Ex. "Whadair dou dooder inder ourdair kinderdom, uplanderders?"

Kinda like how 'Barbarians" were so called because the Romans thought they sounded like they their language was all "bar bar bar"...Derros are so called for the "der."

Yeah. Like that.

 

[el-remmen]

Whisper quiet but breaking into a breathy shriek occasionally.

 

[Richards]

Pretty much like Bobcat Goldthwait.

Johnathan