Gnomish should be more artificial. Esperanto.
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.
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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.
I’ve always been a fan of that trope. I like to do a Brooklyn goblin from time to time.
I used esperanto as elvish
I thought the accent for the orc in solo leveling really enhanced the experience.
Polish for the thieves cant. Kurwa
French? Nah, infernal is Regex
All I remember from my infernal class is to ask if a number is prime....
^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$
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.
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.
spanish is draconic? i thought we all agreed that draconic is german
edit: also as a brazilian, portuguese is too goofy for abyssal
Sylvan should be Old Spanish like the faun in Pans Labyrinth
Man, I should watch that again. It’s been ages.
Brazilian Portuguese is too “melodic” for abyssal, but some European Portuguese accents can work.
eh pt portuguese would work better for elvish
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
I vote Dutch for dwarvish. As a brazilian , portuguese could be gnomish or smth
yeah, portuguese does fit gnomes
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I am an adult
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
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
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.
The problem wasn’t even Jose, it was your refusal to pick a class.
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.
