Who's from the UK?

[EnglishScribe]

Hey now watch it you Northern Monkey!

NORTHERN monkey? I'm originally from Hartlepool (definately north) and we hung the monkey!

 

[Deadguy]

Hi folks

A Midlander born and bred here - living in Nottingham. I'm 3...(mumble) now. I game regularly but get to play D&D less often than I would like. But I've been RPing pretty much weekly for over twenty years.

As for accents, well you must realise that every peasant comes from the West County; it's their staple export it seems!

 

[S'mon]

Since this thread is full of you guys, I have a question for UKers.

I was driving last night and an unusual thought came into my head, "What accect to English (or Ukers) RPGers use in their role-playing games." This because USers often use English accents in thier rpg games.

It may a bit a foolish question, but it struck me as odd, so there ya go.

joe b.

Hmm... British accents, I guess. Except most of my players aren't British so they use theirs...

I don't 'accent' NPCs very often in a fantasy game, never occurred to me to do so, though I did make Archduke Ulfius Bloodhammer sound a bit like General Melchett in 'Blackadder Goes Forth'. Mostly I set a tone by choice of words, body language, not using RL swear words at table, that kind of thing.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

I'm another person from Hampshire. I'm 27, drink slightly too much, smoke way too much, watch a lot of movies and play a bunch of computer games.

I play in Morrus's Tuesday game, with 'monkeyboy' Darmanicus. Run another weekly game. Also play in a fortnightly-ish Ars Magica game.


I try and do various accents for my NPCs... however they always come out as either a strange Australian sounding mess or an 'upper class mockney gangster' if you can imagine that.

 

[S'mon]

Coventry isn't exactly the north, but it certainly isn't the south either.


glass.

Coventry - Where the Grim Begins.

I lived in Cov over 2 years, it's very much The Midlands but it was weird driving south 10 minutes and you're deep in 'The South' - Royal Leamington Spa, Stratford Upon Avon & such.

 

[S'mon]

Scholars and courtiers tend to talk very carefully (and slightly effete) RP. Peasants have a rural, vaguely West Country, accent (although I can slip into Rural Oxfordhsire which is more subtle). Dodgy city folk tend to talk Cockerney. Dwarves tend towards Yorkshire rather than the traditional semi-Scottish (mainly because I can maintain the accent for longer).

Hm, yeah, I guess I do this too - West Country peasants, RP aristocrats, cockney Rogues (the little blighters). I probably would do the Scots-Yorkshire dwarves given half a chance. Elves, hm, I guess I go a bit RADA-Shakespearian with elves, kinda Patrick Stewarty maybe.

 

[S'mon]

Cambridge - haven't been there many years, but as a child Games & Puzzles was the shop that got me started on this RPG addiction. Great place, sad to hear it apparently died years ago.

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

I'm 37 and have been playing D&D (and other RPGs) since I was 13. I was born and live in London although I studied in Durham where I met my girlfriend who is also a gamer. I play in a weekly D&D/AU game at the Green Man pub (opposite Great Portland Street, tube, where the London Gamers club meets), as well as a monthly-ish Freeport game I run for several people I used to play D&D with years ago, and another monthly-ish FR game I run just for my girlfriend.


Cheers


Richard

 

[Capellan]

Born in Zimbabwe, raised in the UK, live in Australia, but currently working in the US for a couple of years.

Do I win the 'most countries' award?

 

[DragonLancer]

I'll add my name to the growing ranks of Cambridgeshire gamers - I'm 36 and live in Cambourne, which is a dismal little place halfway between Cambridge and St. Neots. I am originally from Durham but have spent most of my life living in Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. The UK is quite a culture shock after all these years . I am a full-time house-husband and play bass in a band called Ratzinasack (come and see us this Friday at the Haymakers in Cambridge!)
(Likuidice, I take it you are referring to The Gamers shop? Great little place - best second hand selection I've seen in years.)

Hiya. Likuidice is one of the few players here in St. Neots with whom I am lucky to play. Gamers opened just a before Christmas and has been the site of many gaming schinanigans every Wednesday evening.

Cambridge - haven't been there many years, but as a child Games & Puzzles was the shop that got me started on this RPG addiction. Great place, sad to hear it apparently died years ago.

Sadly yes. The guy who had been running it ever since I started into RPG’s sold it to some real sad LARPers who really trashed the place and had no idea how to run a business. Now Cambridge doesn’t have a gaming shop to my knowledge.