D&D General Accents

[jgsugden]

When I write an NPC, especially a minor one, I put down three things next to the name - a character, a fear, and a love. The fear and love are the driving motivators for the NPC. The character, however, is someone from film, tv, or my life that I will attempt to emulate as I run the NPC. My accents are sooooo bad that they often do not resemble the character I am trying to copy, but it still gives a consistent voice for the PC. To that end, I've attempted almost any accent you can find on the screen.

 

[GlassJaw]

Matt McConaunghey

 

[Benjamin Olson]

All my accents are for in-setting cultures whose accents just by coincidence sound exactly like me butchering various 21st century Earth accents.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Matt McConaunghey

Alright alright alright.

 

[Eltab]

I can TRY anything.
What I actually get is highly reminiscent of the first part of the "Rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain" scene from My Fair Lady. Half-baked efforts that are just enough like the original to sound like a bad copy.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I am Spanish.

Elves - soft and polite French.
Dwarfs and orcs - German or others from North Europe.
Gnomes - Italian
Halflings, kenders and like this (peasants) - Andalucian (South Spain) for comical tone.

 

[Morrus]

I am Spanish.

No! You don't say!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Matt McConaunghey

Alright alright alright.

The amount of "Alright alright alright" that goes on between me and one of my DMs is probably unhealthy.

Accent-wise, when I DM, I do a lot of different voices, but I generally stick to British accents in D&D, because it feels a bit weird to put in US/Australian/etc. accents. I mean, it probably shouldn't, but it does for me. I tend to try for a voice and use of language rather than a heavy accent with most characters though. I can also do a sort of weird demon-voice thing, for well, er, demons, but the players said it was too creepy and I had to stop.

 

[Lanefan]

There's accents I can do for a bit but not maintain them, there's others I can do all night badly, and a few I can do all night halfway well.

The 'halfway well' ones:

English

• aristocratic/pompous in a few different variants
• west country
• over-the-top generic
• toned-down generic in a few different variants
• toned-down cockney

Scottish

• highlands
• lowlands

American
- southern and-or Texas
Canadian (obviously) in a few different variants
French (or at least French-Canadian)
Far Eastern (generic)

The 'all night badly' ones:

Irish (inevitably drifts over to lowlands Scottish and stays there)
Arabic (or generic middle-east)
East Indian (generic)
German
Australian
American if not southern and-or Texas

The ones I can start but not maintain:

Russian or Slavic
Italian
Spanish
Norse or Swedish

 

[Ruin Explorer]

west country

I have to admit to lapsing into this for basically any "bumpkin". It is just an amazingly fun accent to do.