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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 2030352" data-attributes="member: 53">I've played with a lot of players with large variants on the "method actor" style of roleplaying voices.  In my opinion, if the player is comfortable with the accent (and it's not impossible to understand), it works well.  For example, one player I've gamed on and off with has done a lot of acting in children's theatre and the like.  It adds to the game when he does it.On the other hand, the players who aren't comfortable with it, but are talked into by those who insist "it's the only way to be in character" are very uncomfortable to be around.  They don't really want to do it and everything is just forced.Plus, there are all the shades in between.  Personally, I couldn't be consistant with an accent if my life depended on it.  I sometimes pick up an accent, but only when around those that have them (I could do an Australian accent during the period I was regularly gaming with an Australian, for example).I'll sometimes try a mannerism as a GM for an NPC, if they are recurring but not regularly "on screen."  For example, maybe the local fence repeats some of what he's saying ("I will see what I can do, I will.")  That way it's not something I have to do to the point of distraction, but it also signals when a certain NPC is on screen.   However, I don't want to juggle too many NPCs this way, so I don't feel the need to do it too often.</blockquote>