Who's from the UK?

[Mavnn]

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?

Depends if you're going on family as well as personal life. My mum is half Dutch, half Norweignen and born in Singapore, my dad is half scottish. Each of my five grandparents is from a different country (one of my grandmothers remarried...).

Personally, I've also lived in 3 countries: England, Greece and Turkey.

To make life more complicated, my wife is half Italian, half Austrian with her Austrian ancestors coming from all over what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire... so what would now be counted as a range of different countries.

When asked for my ethnic group on my last job application I settled on 'mixed european.'

Michael

 

[Plane Sailing]

I'm 43, live in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and I've been playing RPGs of one kind or another for nearly 30 years. I'm married with two small children and that has dramatically cut into gaming time, so I now only play once a fortnight, in a group which contains Robberbaron (see above). I've been an analyst/programmer for my whole working life, but in the last 8 years I've been getting stuck in to this web developer malarky and I work for the 10th oldest organisation in the UK (founded under Henry VIIIth no less).

Robberbaron is modest, he does a great job with accents (much better than most of us). The only fairly consistent accents have been cod-oriental when playing Bushido or some other oriental game, and IMC the Dwarves are basically klingon, although one player does a creditable scottish.

There are probably about half a dozen campaigns on our roster, three of which have storyhours hear - my Kyri campaign, Robberbarons "they came in search of paradise" and Guidos "stories from the steppes". Other campaigns include a SWd20, a d20Modern and at least one other that I can't think of at the moment. We tend to stick with one campaign for several sessions and then switch to another one for several sessions.

Cheers!

 

[MonsterMash]

Add myself to the London based gamers, but I'm a native of this fair city.

Age:38, been playing RPG on and off since 1977 starting with OD&D(iaglo), then playing BD&D, a bit of 1e, RQ2, CoC, Traveller. Broke off for a few years till I started again n 2003 with 3.5. Another IT professional, job title Integration Manager working on systems for law enforcement.

From my desk I can see St Pauls Cathedral and the Thames, which is quite nice.

To reply to some other stuff, for some reason Dwarves usually seem to be from Yorkshire or Scotland, Elves are usually fairly effete and RP, humans can vary, but are prone to the tradititional 'mummerset accent'.

Oh and to complete the profile: Go on the Mighty Orient!

 

[OakwoodDM]

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

This you may have done, but you made up for it recently by electing him mayor!

 

[HalfOrc HalfBiscuit]

I'll add myself to the list:

I live in Bicester (half-way-ish between Oxford and Banbury). I'm going to be 46 later this month (so let's have none of these pathetic crocodile tears over being in your mid-30s ). I work in legal publishing, but am lucky enough to do so from home, so there's no-one looking over my shoulder when I spend half the day looking at EN World .

I've been playing D&D and other RP games since 1977 - at least that's the date I wrote in the old white box (and the Greyhawk supplement) when my brother gave it to me for my birthday.

More recently I haven't been playing so much unfortunately. And currently my only game is as DM for my two teenage kids - which is fairly intermittent as they keep having other things to do, like homework or having a real life!

On the (in-game) accents front, I'm one of those who tends to keep things to a minimum (not least because otherwise I can't remember who talks like what). But these days all Dwarves do talk like Gimli in LoTR.

 

[Snowy]

I'm living in Oxford at the moment well at least I am for another 5 months till I finish Uni and I've been playing DnD since last february when my friends bought me the core books for my birthday and a bag of dice of course, up until then I'd just done lots of larping.

 

[robberbaron]

Dwarves speak in west country accents and/or Scots accents
Humans speak in cockney
Elves speak the queen's english
Halflings speak in either South Wales accents or Yorkshire accents

Seems to be almost universal.
My Dwarves speak Glaswegian (even if they are from central Europe), my Elves are generally softly-spoken and do, indeed, use the Queen's English.
Halflings/Pecks/Stunties/Ratlings/etc. are from the West Country.
Greenskins (Orcs, gobbos, etc.) are from Watford.
Gnomes have squeaky little voices that almost defy accenting, but come accross as vaguely Cockney.
I do try, however, to give Humans regional flavour, though my best efforts generally devolve into either Indian, Oriental or Russian.

 

[HalfOrc HalfBiscuit]

Greenskins (Orcs, gobbos, etc.) are from Watford.

I would have said that a significant number seem to have emigrated to Peckham ...

 

[hong]

I do try, however, to give Humans regional flavour, though my best efforts generally devolve into either Indian, Oriental or Russian.

I've heard it said somewhere that all attempts to put on an accent inevitably end up sounding Pakistani.

 

[DragonSword]

I've heard it said somewhere that all attempts to put on an accent inevitably end up sounding Pakistani.

True. Being able to DM with accents (especially for an extended period) is probably one of the hardest things I've ever tried to do. My NPCs change their heritage so quickly that even the best RPers in our group can't keep up. They always, though, end up sounding like Apu from the Simpsons.