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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

In a homebrew setting still in construction, Volapük is the language of a secret society.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Gnomish should be more artificial. Esperanto.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Esperanto is more like Common. A language that everyone speaks, more or less, can only be something from an imperialist power or a neutral ground created for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Infernal is Korean, Elvish is Finnish, Dwarvish is Icelandic, Abyssal is Spanish, the Elemental Languages are Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin, while Gnomish is Farsi.

Come at me, Bitches!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

French? Nah, infernal is Regex

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

All I remember from my infernal class is to ask if a number is prime....

^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In the game I'm playing, goblins have thick New York accents. If my creepy-ass lizard person dies, I might switch to that, or a Nordic elf with a thick Swedish accent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I've always been a fan of that trope. I like to do a Brooklyn goblin from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

I used esperanto as elvish

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

spanish is draconic? i thought we all agreed that draconic is german

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sylvan should be Old Spanish like the faun in Pans Labyrinth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Man, I should watch that again. It's been ages.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually Draconic is Spanish cuz Celestial is Latin, and Elvish is French cuz they snooty (also a romance language). Dwarves can be Portuguese, as a little treat :3

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I vote Dutch for dwarvish. As a brazilian , portuguese could be gnomish or smth

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

yeah, portuguese does fit gnomes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Brazilian Portuguese is too "melodic" for abyssal, but some European Portuguese accents can work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

eh pt portuguese would work better for elvish

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People behind Minions: hold my banana.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I am an adult

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

I thought the accent for the orc in solo leveling really enhanced the experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Polish for the thieves cant. Kurwa

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

I'm not going to say that affecting an accent for a language one doesn't speak is inherently racist....but it can get there pretty fast.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

I did a salt marsh campaign that I themed like Louisiana bayou country. I had a whole society of reclusive swamp gnomes with Cajun French accents. I still miss those guys. They were cool and spooky.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I always pick a character from a movie to play characters in my campaigns. For example, I might decide this dragonborn librarian is being played by Zorg from the Fifth Element, so he's going to talk with a slight west Texas twang.

Makes deciding what accent to use pretty easily, and gives me a canned personality to boot.

(My fallback for making the table regret talking to an NPC is Dick Van Dyke's terribly-accentented chimney sweep in Mary Poppins.)

I once did a campaign where all the bad guys where Gary Oldman in different roles

[–] drew_belloc 10 points 1 day ago

I want to learn dovahzul just to use it as draconic, but is so rare for me and my friends to play that i lost motivation after a feel days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My world draws inspiration from maaaany real life cultures and I'm sure some people would be offended by our interpretations of them.

For us draconic is based in Finnish, and giant is based in Norwegian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

French sounds incredible with a demon voice. There's an entire cartoon series, Wakfu, where there's a demon talking sword and he's great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

My last DM got mad at me and almost kicked me out of the group because I wanted to create a rogue mage warrior priest with a backstory that he was a mexican immigrant names Jose.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

The problem wasn't even Jose, it was your refusal to pick a class.