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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1716145" data-attributes="member: 1656">Heh.My party ended up in Freeport briefly.  They struck up a conversation with a pirate captain in a bar - I did the stereotypical pirate voice for him (much like Rush's Barbosa in PotC).And they just wouldn't stop talking to him!  My throat was wrecked by the end of the session <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think the last time it felt that bad was when I read The Belgariad aloud to a girlfriend.  Normally, there wasn't a problem there, but there was one chapter where Belgarath, Beldin, and Barak had a long conversation, and the combination of those three voices over an extended period screwed up my throat for a while as well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I tend to do voices for certain PCs (though not all), and almost all NPCs.We had a PC a couple of campaigns back - male player, ditzy blonde female elf PC.  He did an annoying falsetto for her... but the worst part was that it was addictive.  We'd frequently have four or five players all speaking in her voice...Also had an amusing situation in a one-shot recently.  One player who normally plays a fairly cultured PC was instead playing a low Cha, low-to-moderate Int half-giant.  And through circumstance, ended up doing some Gather Informationing.  He kept forgetting himself, and slipping from his dull-Cockney yob into his words-of-more-than-one-syllable, intelligent-person persona.  We'd just look at him until he realised, and rephrased... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Hyp.</blockquote>

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