I just use different American accents, mostly because I'm American.
Also, because hillbilly gnomes are funny
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I just use different American accents, mostly because I'm American.
Also, because hillbilly gnomes are funny
As a native speaker I will use the very specific Baltimore MD accent on certain NPCs
One of my PCs is a ghoul, and I am incapable of speaking that rough without sounding like Fran Fine (if she smoked for 50 years)
Undercommon is just really thick Australian accent.
I would also accept Scots, since it's barely recognizable as English
I played a furry porn game where otters spoke Tagalog and honestly, yeah that's fine
I am curious.
Pfft, all dwarves are either Scottish or German. Just a fact.
We use German as common and Dwarves are Bavarian.
Drow are Australian, on account of the land they come from
Nice :)
IMO - Racial/Ethnic/National Coding isn't inherently wrong. But using that coding to push Stereotypes and oppressive mindsets is.
Rule of thumb, if you're worried you will in some way cross that line, don't do coding.
Not oppressive mindset, but i'm ok with stereotypes too.
Because it can be funny, in comedy racial jokes are always set in some stereotypes for a reason. I think RP is mostly that, fun and joking around.
I have my own language mappings in my homebrew. Most of them only appear as names since most people speak Common, but I did include some people in my game who don't. (I make sure that they are some who speak a language that I speak too.) So the mappings are:
Orc - Russian.
Haha holy shit.
Draconic - Hindi
"The dragon rears back and bellows 'DO NOT REDEEM! WHAT ARE YOU DOING??'"
Tolkien was primarily a linguist, so the languages he made were actually based on real languages. Tolkien elvish is based on Finnish.
Why not just you Elvish for Elvish?
Because I don't speak Quenya. (I wrote the signature of an Elvish character in Tengwar, but that's about it.)
Esperanto is gnomish
Just want to point out that draconic has quite a lot of words already defined, as well as a few grammar rules. 1. Draconic, 2. Draconic Primer, and 3. Lonely Planet Vayemniri (vayemniri being the endonym for dragonborn in the Realms—a race that absolutely despises dragons wouldn’t exactly be happy about a name that says "dragon").
I’m not sure what real-world language would be the best analogue. Maybe something Germanic?
You can't be racist against the French. Same way you can't be racist against dogs.
Latin is Primordial
I use portuguese for common, english for elvish, japanese for abyssal and i'm learning dovahzul to use as draconic, i'm thinking on learning german too but i don't know what it will be yet
Works at larps too. One I go to (in NL) has Dutch as common, and we use English as Elvish and, depending on with whom I talk, I express Dwarvish with either Scottish English, Northern English or German. If I really want to commit to the bit, I should learn High German or an Austrian dialect for Dwarvish.
Jello Apocalypse and crew did a Let's Play of Skies Of Arcadia that was fantastic for a variety of reasons. Everybody in the Chinese-coded nation got Southern accents. It was... an alarmingly apt choice.
I ditched racial accents in place of regional accents.