3rd person Regdarspeak: Rules or Drools?

[Rune]

I think the portrayal of Regdar with third person Regdarspeach came from Monte Cook's Miniatures Playhouse, where he's also always mistaking Lidda for his kid sister.

 

[Deedlit]

Miniatures Playhouse? Could someone please explain?

 

[alsih2o]

what always bugs me about this is the fact that people always seem to fall back on abuse of the verb "be"

r"i be right back"

"i be sick" "i be superman"

ick!!!

 

[machine]

As long as folks are having fun, let it be.

(my character is an average INT monk, so no 3rd speak for me.)

 

[drowdude]

Bah! Hulk talk like Hulk for long time. Why puny people think it new thing?

Me drowdude thinks that has something to do with The Rock. Me drowdude finds Redgarspeak entertaining, but me drowdude likes to refer to it as "Grimlocktalk".

 

[Gez]

It's funny that 3rd-person speak is used for stupid people. Usually, wasn't it used for megalomaniac people (but with a better grammar, usually) ?

 

[drowdude]

Like Mojo Jojo ?

 

[Leopold]

just....due.....to.....slow....brain.....I.....talk.....in....slow.....sentences....my.....head.....can......only......think.....so.....much.....so....i.....talk....slow....to.....keep.....all....words.....right.



Your PC might not earn the noble prize but with an 8int (forrest gump level) he's not the brightest bulb in the bunch but he doesn't have to talk in 3rd person. Make his speech slow or slurred like he is furrowing his brow to make a sentence up and make it right. I knwo folks that are like that and they never refer to themselves in teh 3rd person "Bob thirsty so bob get beer for you and bob!"