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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5413912" data-attributes="member: 54877">Sort of meta advice, but don't confuse your goals with your techniques and tools.&nbsp; &nbsp;For example, the goal is to make the NPC memorable in some dramatic way.&nbsp; Techniques can include accents, descriptions, having the NPC act in certain ways, props, etc.&nbsp; If your accents aren't all that, they might turn the NPC into a joke.&nbsp; But your actions and descriptions work.&nbsp; So play to your strengths.&nbsp; &nbsp;You can work on the accents later, with an NPC that doesn't matter to you as much.&nbsp; Then the goal is to introduce a minor NPC and work on your accents.&nbsp;This is especially important if you are a relatively new DM working with an experienced group--maybe with another experienced DM sitting in as a player.&nbsp; Your strengths and weaknesses aren't his or hers.&nbsp; You aren't going to be him or her.&nbsp; So learn from others, but don't forget to be you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5413912, member: 54877"] Sort of meta advice, but don't confuse your goals with your techniques and tools. For example, the goal is to make the NPC memorable in some dramatic way. Techniques can include accents, descriptions, having the NPC act in certain ways, props, etc. If your accents aren't all that, they might turn the NPC into a joke. But your actions and descriptions work. So play to your strengths. You can work on the accents later, with an NPC that doesn't matter to you as much. Then the goal is to introduce a minor NPC and work on your accents. This is especially important if you are a relatively new DM working with an experienced group--maybe with another experienced DM sitting in as a player. Your strengths and weaknesses aren't his or hers. You aren't going to be him or her. So learn from others, but don't forget to be you. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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