Should D&D be more American?

[jhanzur]

But without an England, would there be an America? And if so, would that America be anything like the one you live in now?

No, in fact, it might have been a much less industialized, much more ecologically sound "America" for "Native Americans", relatively free from such things as smallpox infested blankets or Empirialism*.

 

[Kilmore]

Actually, I think the spread of English around the world can be attributed to both the Brits and the Americans. The Brits had the biggest empire, on all corners of the globe, where the citizens learned English. Then came us Americans with our television and movies shown all over the world.

My 2 cp.

 

[Ran]

I would say better, fist there were the English, their empire, they invented the imperialism.

Then came the Americans, learned well from their maters, invented the cultural imperialism, and english spread all over hte world...

I, for an instance, prefer E/E, since I am from Brazil and I satrted learning english because i wanted to go to England some day...

 

[the Jester]

Well, I'm all for English-English, but I don't speak it.

 

[ajanders]

The threat of Emperialism

Darn that Anglo-American habit of wanting dominion over everything they can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch!
(Wait a minute, that's not nearly as satiricial as I thought it would be...)
On an actual game related note, I've noticed that in my D&D group, every character has an English accent. All of them. (We're in the US, by the way). The NPC's all have English accents too.
Everyone thinks it sounds more "fantasy" that way.
A highly informal poll of the gamers I know indicates this is a standard trend for D&D, but for no other games...even if the characters are actually English.
So my question for the people on these boards who have real English accents is: What (if any) accents do you use for your characters?

 

[tleilaxu]

Actually, all pilots use American-English EXCEPT those coming in and out of FRANCE.

 

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

So everyone is speaking engrish?

http://www.engrish.com/

 

[tleilaxu]

Hmm.. a point of view a little subjective, isn't it?
there is one thing here...



Yeah??? Well, except for the fact it was NOT an american who invented it... it was a brazilian, Santos Dummont and he flew for the first time in Paris, France, around the Eiffel Tower... his plane was called 14BIS.

Suurree.... next you'll be saying Brazil got to the moon before the Americans

 

[Turlogh]

We all should compromise and speak Canadian-English. We're Americas neighbour and ally and a part of the British Commonwealth. Officially our spellings are British but in practice more American. So we're really the best for a universal english.

 

[tleilaxu]

Whaaht are yoou talking aboot? The Cahnadian accent is soo annoying. Soory, but it's true