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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DragonLancer" data-source="post: 9786991" data-attributes="member: 11868">I say amateur dramatics, which fair enough is probably not the right way to describe it, because they aren't doing it in the style of a professional actor or local theatre performer. It's generally over the top and it gets irritating real fast. I get the same reaction from the likes of the actors on Critical Roll (another reason I don't generally watch their videos) when they put on voices and they are professional voice actors. If that is how a gaming group perform their role-play that's great. Power to them. I'm not trying to say groups out there shouldn't. But it's probably not a group that I could stay with for long, but that is on me.Funny silly voices are right out. Accents can be okay if it sounds genuine and not a caricature. I've never had anyone do the projected voice or try to mimic a lisp, so I don't know to be honest. I do think that the older I have become the more it bothers me. It probably wouldn't have done so much twenty years ago when I was in my thirties. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I currently play in a fortnightly game of The One Ring and four out of five of us went with dwarves. These were Peter Jackson dwarves so we all had Scottish accents, naturally. Probably a session and a half in, we collectively dropped the accents because it was getting tired quickly. But that's probably the closest that my group has ever come to incorporating voices/accents in our games.</blockquote>

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