Do you use accents/"funny voices" when playing your PC?

[spider_minion]

I always speak in accent with my characters. Recently I was playing a halfling pirate named Kaptain Kraken (yes, it's spelled with a K). He was never taken seriously, having only a two-dimensional personality and motivated by loot and plunder. Even after playing him for a dozen sessions or so, I never got bored (though I'm sure the other PCs do). Sometimes I go so far as to make the character around the funny voice, like my cheesy superhero paladin.

I use voices for most NPCs too, but sometimes mix them up accidentaly. The only exception is female characters, which I cannot do.

My voice is often sore after a long session, but it's well worth it. Arrrrr . . .

 

[Templetroll]

I always speak in accent with my characters. Recently I was playing a halfling pirate named Kaptain Kraken (yes, it's spelled with a K). He was never taken seriously, having only a two-dimensional personality and motivated by loot and plunder. Even after playing him for a dozen sessions or so, I never got bored (though I'm sure the other PCs do). Sometimes I go so far as to make the character around the funny voice, like my cheesy superhero paladin.

I use voices for most NPCs too, but sometimes mix them up accidentaly. The only exception is female characters, which I cannot do.

My voice is often sore after a long session, but it's well worth it. Arrrrr . . .

I played a halfling pirate at a larp once - he had a jeweled codpiece. turned out he was the wealthiest character in the game.

I based him on the Pirate King from Pirates of Penzance. Try that some time and really freak your friends out! "It is, it is a glorious thing, to be a pirate king!" The guy running the larp told me he never wanted to see that codpiece again.

 

[ecliptic]

I voted sometimes because I have done it. I usually don't.

 

[Doug McCrae]

I love accents for PCs, NPCs everyone. It really helps immerse you in the fantasy world. Probably the most important single factor in how highly I rate a GM is the quality of their NPC voices.

 

[just__al]

Only when I DM. I'm not all that good at it, but I try. The voice I'm most proud of doing was for an NPC who was a 4th level expert who "made things happen" in town. I watched the Maltese Falcon a bunch of times and got Peter Lorre down cold. It was perfect because he was always flanked by a couple of half-ogre devoted defenders so he was very smarmy but knew in the back of his head he'd be toast if you caught him alone.

And my players picked up the voice right away and got a kick out of it.

 

[Clueless]

Myself I use them rarealy (can't do accents well enough) - my females - if sorceresses or prissy - will sometimes get this uber-cultured way of speaking. And the only other accent I can do with credit is Southern (gee - I wonder why). So theres a few superhero characters I have from the South that I just thicken my own accent, sometimes to an extreme.

I will admit at one point my gaming group watched Snatch and Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels back to back one weekend - and our GM came to his Planescape game to find us all speaking wannabe British cant.

 

[DrZombie]

Well, this thread has made me realise I only do the voice thing when I'm DM'ing, seldom when I play. I do use a different vocabulary for different PC's though.

 

[Oryan77]

Changing speech patterns I understand, I do that when DM'ing so you feel more like you're talking to another race. But using accents? I've never understood that. Unless your character is supposed to be Scottish or Irish then it makes no sense. I guess if you're an American that can't get past the cliche of King Arthur and his Knights of the Roundtable vocabulary then it could make you feel more imersed in fantasy.

I know alot of people think of fantasy as being equivalent to Earths Medieval period. Which we classify as being set in the land of Great Britain and the surrounding European areas. I just find if funny that we feel more in character by using those accents as if our fantasy world couldn't have had american accents. Do you real Scottish & Irish players constantly feel more in character because you naturally have the accents? Or do you guys use French accents to feel more in character?

 

[Chronosome]

I love voicing it up. Accents, vocabulary, timbre...
Roleplaying the way a character speaks is one of my favorite parts of the game.

Forgemad, my current PC, speaks in a low, gruff grumble so severe that people don't understand most of what he says (in and often out of game). Six charisma, heh.

 

[Clueless]

I know alot of people think of fantasy as being equivalent to Earths Medieval period. Which we classify as being set in the land of Great Britain and the surrounding European areas. I just find if funny that we feel more in character by using those accents as if our fantasy world couldn't have had american accents. Do you real Scottish & Irish players constantly feel more in character because you naturally have the accents? Or do you guys use French accents to feel more in character?

At least when it comes to Planescape it's fairly well supported by the setting: the accent is British semi-Cockney.