D&D 5E dragon voices

[MonsterEnvy]

All right, so deep voices seems to be common.

White dragons are generally considered dumb. Would you consider giving them a hillbilly-ish voice? Or just having them frequently mispronounce words and/or use malapropisms and the like?

Green dragons are sly and manipulative. They're the Petyr Baelishes of the dragon world. Would you give yours a husky sort of voice? Like someone with a deep voice trying to whisper?

I can see silver dragons adopting local parlance in order to better fit in with their humanoid friends.

Any other ideas?

The White Dragon thing I need to point out. White are only stupid compared to other Dragons they have average intelligence. If I voice one it's going to be similar to other dragons, maybe a little less refined and more aggressive. But they would sound like other dragons.

Arveiaturace is fairly famous white dragon and was not dumb at all. She was brutal, savage and arrogant like other white dragons, but was a noted talker. She was formally the mount of a powerful wizard who passed away. She held a great deal of respect for him and was never really able to move past his death. She frequently would kidnap people that looked like they were magic users after which she would spend most of her time talking with them. (As she is trying to find a replacement rider.) Once the captive finally got to courage to ask if they could leave she would give them a ride to any spot on the northern sword coast. Her respect for her former rider was so great that when she learned that a book was written about him in Candlekeep she flew down to Candlekeep tore off the keep's roof to find the author and proceeded to make him rewrite the book with her correcting all the errors he made. (Laeral Silverhand later personaly delivered the finished copy of the book to her and stayed with her for a week to converse. After which Arveiaturace stopped attacking ships near Waterdeep.)

 

[pukunui]

I knew about Arveiaturace and the dead wizard still strapped to her back, but I didn't know the rest of it. Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I knew about Arveiaturace and the dead wizard still strapped to her back, but I didn't know the rest of it. Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!

Here then http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/archfr/wn

Wyrms of the North a bunch of entries on a bunch of Dragons. From Arauthator the Old White Death to Voaraghamanthar the Black Death. (I mentioned these two because they are both in Tyranny of Dragons. Arauthator was also a main villain of several of the recent Drizzt books so he has been getting around.)

 

[pukunui]

Thanks! I read the one about Voaraghamanthar just recently because my ToD group is just heading into the mere. Haven't read any of the others in that series, though*. Unfortunately, I don't think any of those articles will help in terms of voicing these dragons.




*EDIT: Actually, that's not true. I did read a few of the others back when I was putting together a book of dragon lore for my wife's dwarf wizard PC (who has the dragon scholar background feature).

 

[Mecheon]

All right, so deep voices seems to be common.

White dragons are generally considered dumb. Would you consider giving them a hillbilly-ish voice? Or just having them frequently mispronounce words and/or use malapropisms and the like?

White Dragons are predatorial and cunning, they just don't care about all the politics and other fuss other dragons are up to. They're all about survival.

They should sound like something that doesn't talk often because its too busy roaring and attempting to eat things, not bargain with them

 

[The Grassy Gnoll]

Maybe ask Matt Mercer. He may even do a DM Tips episode on it.

 

[Libramarian]

White dragons are generally considered dumb. Would you consider giving them a hillbilly-ish voice? Or just having them frequently mispronounce words and/or use malapropisms and the like?

I don't think I've ever voiced a white dragon, but I wouldn't risk a comedic effect by playing up its stupidity in that way. Off the top of my head, I'd have it sound like the scientist who gets possessed by the alien in Independence Day.

"What would you have us do?"
"Dieeee"

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

When I voiced Themberchaud from Out of the Abyss, I went with a very deep voice (my voice is already pretty low, so I pushed it even further down). I also stood up and paced around the group, so that they’d have to look up at me.

 

[Bawylie]

They sound like Texans or Creoles.

 

[Imaculata]

I always thought the idea of dragons some how having the vocal cords to pronounce English was kind of silly. So in my campaigns, they speak telepathically, if they speak at all (most of them just roar and spit fire). So in my campaigns their voice is an emotion, not a sound.