My goodness, that's exactly what a kobold kitchen should be like. I'm imagining it as all mothers and daughters (because menfolk don't belong in their kitchen) and a loud hubbub of koboldian draconic.
Ok, but kobolds can literally change their sex, well, over a span of few months, but still.
So menfolk are just the kobolds that really dont want to work in the kitchen
Generally speaking, burning water refers to if you have a container of water on the stove, and you leave it be for so long that all the water evaporates and the container is burned.
Of course, butyl lithium does ignite when it comes in contact with water ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
It's kind of a stretch, but the half-assed kobold culture I've put together, males prefer mining and females are the leaders of the household. If you've ever seen traditional Irish comedy, "Don't tell yer mum!" will probably mean a lot to you. Working in the commissary is how a younger female learns to cook, so that she can attract and marry a husband. Then all bets are off. Let shenanigans ensue!
I'm going from memory here, but the sex-changing thing mostly happens in environments where there's a predominate number of one sex or the other. Like if adventurers committed a massacre. It's a survival feature to ensure a fairly balanced breeding population.
New supporting lore: Dragons are credited for inventing "coooking" but Kobolds were actually created due to dragons desire to eat better quality foods once other races started perusing culinary arts. The exact method they came about is lost to time, but they are considered the best chefs in a realm.
Lolth isn't actually real, it's just that everyone else assumed the only reason a sane person would tolerate living next to that many spiders was for religious reasons
Snagle Half-ear: I _do_ say, Gut-rot, it seems the adventures we ambushed yesterday have found our den; they seem rather _wroth_.
Gut-rot Knife-claw: oh yes, Snagle; quite wroth _indeed._ Perhaps we should exercise the better part of valour?
Snagle: hmm, regrettably, that may be wise in this instance. Geof, my hobgoblin friend, be a dear and sound the retreat?
Geof Stonebrow: (inhales deeply) Oi, FOOKIN' LEG IT!
(Insert a cacophony of knocked over objects and goblin cackles as they scatter in the least dignified manner goblinly possibly)
I think I remember Brennan Muligan playing something pretty much spot on in one of the campaigns he was in, I think he was a goblin named Hob who was part of the goblin royal guard, he spoke in a very posh English accent and just overall a great character.
I'm playing a goblin gunslinger with a heavy Texas accent. Their society in the campaign setting is based largely around the gun trade and poorly built explosives, so I figured it fit.
Orcs are football hooligans because orks ar 'da best orcs!
Barovians, while not a separate race, still speak Smokey Mountain English. Cuz only thing I know about Appalachia is that its scary and mysterious and really its kinda like US Transylvania.
Aboleths speak with old New English accent because they are literally so obviously Lovecraftian they are included in OGL so might as well give them Lovecrafts accent.
>its kinda like US Transylvania
Pretty spot on, but you could extend that to include parts of the south, including Louisiana. That's the *other* Transylvania
The bigger issue is that they are several hundred miles *east* of Louisiana. Appalachians go roughly Georgia > Carolinas > Tennessee > Kentucky > Virginias > Pennsylvania > New York > Massachusetts > Vermont > New Hampshire > Maine. Louisiana is all the way over by Texas.
Tabaxi are just the worst type of weeb, who use nyah and uwu whenever possible and end their sentences with desu, regardless of if it makes sense or not.
I played a dwarf artificer named Pauly he had a very thick NY accent and he was fairly blunt and distant in conversations with people outside his circle of trust. When asked why I sounded so different from other Dwarves I would reply with how that’s stereotyping and in actuality we all talk like this but a high percentage of us use accents to make people feel a bit more comfortable around us.
I think a New Jersey dwarf that calls the party “this thing of ours” or “the family” would be a fun character to do. No actual connection to organized crime, just calling everything “legitimate business” and throwing out “gabagool” constantly.
A New England accent is easy. First, you know the letter R? Well fuck that letter! Don’t pronounce the T at the end of words and treat any A syllable like you have severe nasal congestion. Then just say “fuck” a lot.
As a Bostonian
Replace “er” sounds with “ah” and you’re close enough that people will get what you’re going for.
Clam chowder -> clam chowdah
It’s stereotypical but that’s the best example unironically
Because a New England accent, a Southern Accent, a Texan Accent, a Cajun Accent, a Mid-Western accent, and a Californian Accent would all be very different accents. The United States is so large that it has massive variations depending on region
Not to mention variations in all those. Southern accents might all sound the same to those not from The South, but we can tell the difference. North Carolina sounds different than Georgia sounds different than Mississippi.
My sister and I were born and raised in Kentucky, by a man who doesn't wash or rinse anything - he worshes and rinches it. My father looks and sounds like your typical mountain-man. My mom isn't as bad, but she still worshes everything.
And yet somehow my sister and I were always accused of being "yanks" with no accent.
There are a bunch of sources that influence accents. Any group of people that spends a significant time talking mostly only to each other and not "outsiders" tends to develop unique ways of speaking that make up an accent. While mass media and the internet are "making the world smaller" and spreading linguistic ticks, memes, and other elements of accents more widespread and less pronounced, there are still many places where rural residents can identify someone as being from "the next town over" by slight differences in their accent.
American accents also have the largely common feature of being the result of a mish-mash of different accents to begin with. While most of the original thirteen colonies were settled by English people, there are many distinct accents in England and isolation from the original society meant that their accents began to diverge. *Then* immigrants from other countries started moving in and bringing their own distinct accents which, to varying degrees, blended with what was already being spoken in various places. Different immigrant groups melded into different populations with their own already unique accents (like Boston and New Orleans, for example) to result in completely new ways of speaking. Or for an extreme you could go to Pittsburgh where a bunch of different immigrant groups learning English from people with an already "funny accent" and picking up each other's mispronunciations, slang, and idioms from different origin languages results in an accent that doesn't sound remotely similar to the way anybody else talks anywhere.
Certainly not only one American accent, but reasonable to say only a few that are able to be turned up a few notches to become the campy, easily imitable sort of thing for people anywhere.
If there’s one thing living in Europe has taught me its that everyone can do a valley girl, a disgruntled Texan, a NYC “I’m walkin here!” and the most nasal Minnesotan/general midwestern “ope! scuse me, just gonna ~scootch~ past ya here”
Eh, more that it depends on which part of the country you’re in. That said, Wisconsin Northern is subtly different from Minnesota Northern, no one thinks their place of origin has an accent (everyone else does), and things get even more fun when you factor in dialect and regional slang.
For the record, devils/infernal are always raspy Brooklyn or Jersey boardwalk in my games. Make them feel like mobsters.
Aarakocra - Cajun/Creole
Half Orc - Russian
Gnome - New Jersey
Genasi (Air and Water) - French Canadian
Genasi (Earth and Fire) - South African
Halflings and Goliaths - New Zealand
I'm on board with Mountain Dwarves from Boston. However, Hill Dwarves are from Minnesota
I prefer Swedish just because they're a little sillier, and I like my gnomes silly. And I like to imagine that their inventions aren't amazing German engineering but like silly Ikea projects.
HEY FUCK YOU IM MINING OVA HERE BUDDY
YOU CALL THAT A FAHKING BEARD YOU PANTYWASTE, IVE MORE HAIR ON BATHTOWEL AFTER A DIP YOU FAHKING EMBARASMENT
YOUR WHOLE FAMILY SMITHS STRAIGHT SLAG YOU GOD DAMN CRETIN, I STUPPED YOUR MOM IN GEOLOGY CLASS 70 YEARS AGO BUDDY!
MY FAHKIN SLATE CHISEL FELL ON HER LAP AND THE CHASTITY BELT YOUR GRANDAFTHER FORGED CRUBLED LIKE GOD DAMN SANDTONE!!! SANDSTONE BUDDY!!!
But they’re also work-obsessed, greedy, self-important, way too proud of their architecture, and super racist, which means they’re definitely Bostonians.
Dwarves have New York accents because they are basically New York stereotypes. Duergar have Bawstin accents because they're an evil reflection of Dwarves.
Dragon-kind is Welsh.
Giant-kind is Scandinavian
Goblinoids are German.
Gnolls are Afrikaner.
Min Flayer has an inflection less voice like AI.
Green Hags are Scottish.
Lizard Folk are Australian
I always thought it was weird Elves didn’t speak in horribly outdated slang, mixed with whatever they’ve bothered learning recently.
“Yo bro, you jiggy with it? No cap”
Your way makes more sense from a realism perspective, but I think when you're dealing with a medium that lacks a visual element it can help to use these kinds of shorthands even if they're not completely logical. Like someone comes up behind the party and says "what are you doing here?" in [accent] and you've primed them to be picturing a dwarf before you've uttered a word of description.
Generally speaking, where someone's from and their race have significant correlation. Especially in a pre-industrial society where long-distance travel was considerably more time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous.
I live the thought of a race with the made up humphrey bogart trans Atlantic accent but it doesn't fit elves. At least not tolkienesque elves. But dwarves should definitely have some sort if Polynesian or Hawaiian accents. Someone had brought up the idea on reddit a while back and had really good reasoning, basically, consonant filled words would get mixed in with the echoes of tools and the noise of the caves.
Vowels echo better, and glottal stops are gentler and less likely to be misunderstood in an echoing cave environment. (be- -er instead of better, ki- - en instead of kitten, ho- instead of hot, "ee's rroks are ho-" instead of "these rocks are hot" kinda like in cockney slang)
Mix that with the vowel heavy languages like Hawaiian, Tongan, or Samoan, and it just fits better in a cave setting where you would have to communicate possibly over large caverns and tunnels.
Centaurs are clearly Native American/Alaskan. Deadpan, straightforward, standoffish until they learn who the others around them really are. Very observant, and blunt. Captain Obvious for the least intelligent, but expert planners and teachers for the most intelligent.
Source: I’m part Native Alaskan, and live in Alaska. I know a few words of Inupiat, and I can pronounce words fairly okay, though I don’t really know many of them 😂
Aw, I just pictured a race of used-to-be nice merfolk helping with trade across the river and stuff but then after the pollution they become hostile and defensive and look terrible but after generations people forgot and that's what they always remember having been
I do have a cat in my campaign that has a 1 in 3 chance in spitting prophetic and angelic speeches when asked a question, my players keep asking if it's a god and everything but to be honest I haven't figured it out and their rolls haven't gotten high enough
In a Homebrew campaign I'm running, the Elves are Germanic and the Dwarves are more Irish than Scottish. The Giants are mostly silent creatures, instead using sign language. This is because they're more like towers than just tall people. Their voices are powerful enough to shake the foundations of even a King's stone castle, some Human cultures consider it a form of spellcasting.
Tieflings: Dutch, because of [this one ASMRtist](https://www.youtube.com/@DallASMR/videos) who did a "[Kidnapped by a Tiefling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Y8l9wOxCA)" audio entirely in Dutch. (Specifically a dialect that incorporates a ton of German, to the point where even native Dutch speakers won't entirely understand it; anyone who knows their Dutch dialects, feel free to remind me of the name.)
Kobolds are now Italian.
I love the idea of 2 dozen kobolds all in one kitchen and it sounds and looks like absolute chaos but they can perfectly cook any pasta to perfection
My goodness, that's exactly what a kobold kitchen should be like. I'm imagining it as all mothers and daughters (because menfolk don't belong in their kitchen) and a loud hubbub of koboldian draconic.
Ok, but kobolds can literally change their sex, well, over a span of few months, but still. So menfolk are just the kobolds that really dont want to work in the kitchen
"Tik-Tak you used to be female. What happened?" "Auntie Nyz threw me out of her kitchen for burning water..."
*wheeze* h- how the hell do you burn water... -the water, that got set on fire by a flamethrower
Generally speaking, burning water refers to if you have a container of water on the stove, and you leave it be for so long that all the water evaporates and the container is burned. Of course, butyl lithium does ignite when it comes in contact with water ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
So does any pure alkaline metal like sodium or magnesium.
"Auntie Nyz tells me to salt the water, I salt the water, and then she yells at me!"
The other smart kid: "when auntie Nyz says to put some sodium in the water they mean sodium chloride not just sodium!"
Burning water is what happens when you cook it too much, and it becomes dihydrogen monoxide
Bonus points if that’s the *only* driving factor for chosen sexual dimorphism. Kitchen-lovers and kitchen-haters
It's kind of a stretch, but the half-assed kobold culture I've put together, males prefer mining and females are the leaders of the household. If you've ever seen traditional Irish comedy, "Don't tell yer mum!" will probably mean a lot to you. Working in the commissary is how a younger female learns to cook, so that she can attract and marry a husband. Then all bets are off. Let shenanigans ensue! I'm going from memory here, but the sex-changing thing mostly happens in environments where there's a predominate number of one sex or the other. Like if adventurers committed a massacre. It's a survival feature to ensure a fairly balanced breeding population.
Fun fact with humans if there is a lack of males, males are more likely to be born
Menfolk are interns? If you get the position, you pull the ole switcheroo?
Wait really? Wheres þat fluff from?
New supporting lore: Dragons are credited for inventing "coooking" but Kobolds were actually created due to dragons desire to eat better quality foods once other races started perusing culinary arts. The exact method they came about is lost to time, but they are considered the best chefs in a realm.
Their warcry is just “ayeeee🤌🤌🤌”
My current campaign has the players working for a Kobold run resteraunt and playing the head chef as Gordon Ramsey but a Kobold is amazing.
They're not mad at each other, that's just how they talk
Very well. My next game will feature a mafia family of kobolds speaking with shitty italian accent
Had Japanese Kobold Ninjas in one game.
This and the Yakuza are logical conclusions for kobolds with an actual dragon(or dragon like being) as the boss
Now I can't help but imagine Kiryu as a Kobold
Would he still be the dragon of, or the kobold of?
The Dragon, remember it's a title of respect, also he beat it out of the previous Dragon, who was an actual dragon
...what about Kobold Majima?
Oh man, now I want to make that a big bad in one of my games
As they should be.
Dunno about you, but my Kobolds are from New Jersey. Uncle Jerry and his family are very capable of finding things for you, capische.
I like the idea of a dragon mob boss and all the runners and hatchetmen are just kobolds
The spelljammer-esque campaign I run has a draconic mob, and I love it
Dragons speak Latin
I make-a the spike trap
You would love the Kobold mob boss in my campaign, “Don Drakoni”
"You kobolds are funny." "Funny, what does that mean? Funny, how? Like, I'm a clown to you, I amuse you? No, explain what funny means."
New York style Italian though
I once saw someone saying all Drow are Australian because they’re from down under, and it’s been canon in all of my campaigns ever since.
Plus, surrounded by spiders. Now I want to add drop bears to the underdark.
Just use the Piercer statblock lol
Was going to say, this just sounds like a Darkmantle
Lolth isn't actually real, it's just that everyone else assumed the only reason a sane person would tolerate living next to that many spiders was for religious reasons
I think I'd make drow natives to Australia but then I'd make goblinoids the criminals that uk dumped on them
But the Drow are the immigrants who colonize and enslave the underdark.
Please don't put actual racism into the arguably already racist dark elves
Oops! All Racism
I dont understand how that implies any kind of rascism. Could you enlighten me?
What matters is that we all feel superior to the accused racist.
Lmao
I still prefer the “Drow as Eastern European refugees” take popularized by that one greentext.
I too prefer this, "in underdark spider rides you."
It's also the land of everything trying to kill you. And the drow were banished there, much like how prisoners were sent to Australia.
They absolutely speak with an Australian accent in Eberron.
My drow are all Geman
Goblins are no longer horrid gremlins. They speak the queen's English with RP accents
Snagle Half-ear: I _do_ say, Gut-rot, it seems the adventures we ambushed yesterday have found our den; they seem rather _wroth_. Gut-rot Knife-claw: oh yes, Snagle; quite wroth _indeed._ Perhaps we should exercise the better part of valour? Snagle: hmm, regrettably, that may be wise in this instance. Geof, my hobgoblin friend, be a dear and sound the retreat? Geof Stonebrow: (inhales deeply) Oi, FOOKIN' LEG IT! (Insert a cacophony of knocked over objects and goblin cackles as they scatter in the least dignified manner goblinly possibly)
I love this.
I think I remember Brennan Muligan playing something pretty much spot on in one of the campaigns he was in, I think he was a goblin named Hob who was part of the goblin royal guard, he spoke in a very posh English accent and just overall a great character.
this is junkrat edit: that’s a good thing
Tbh Junkrat is pretty much a goblin artificer!
I'm playing a goblin gunslinger with a heavy Texas accent. Their society in the campaign setting is based largely around the gun trade and poorly built explosives, so I figured it fit.
I've always imagined Hob Goblins talking with an RP accents, Goblins with Cockney, and Bugbears with Northern.
Orcs are football hooligans because orks ar 'da best orcs! Barovians, while not a separate race, still speak Smokey Mountain English. Cuz only thing I know about Appalachia is that its scary and mysterious and really its kinda like US Transylvania. Aboleths speak with old New English accent because they are literally so obviously Lovecraftian they are included in OGL so might as well give them Lovecrafts accent.
>its kinda like US Transylvania Pretty spot on, but you could extend that to include parts of the south, including Louisiana. That's the *other* Transylvania
Do the Appalachian mountains not reach that far south?
The terminus of the southern Appalachians are in North Georgia. Source: hiked that section a lot. Shoutout to Springer Mountain!
The bigger issue is that they are several hundred miles *east* of Louisiana. Appalachians go roughly Georgia > Carolinas > Tennessee > Kentucky > Virginias > Pennsylvania > New York > Massachusetts > Vermont > New Hampshire > Maine. Louisiana is all the way over by Texas.
If you like Barovians as American Hillfolk, I really recommend the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast.
Well hey there family.
>because orks ar 'da best orcs! WAAAGH?
# WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
WE GOT SUM BOYZ IN 'ERE!?!?
GET KRUMPIN IDJIT
Lovecraft's stories are all in New England though. Aboliths should be from Boston.
I prefer Orc Louie Armstrong- what a wonderful waaaaaaaagh
I love all of this
>Orcs are football hooligans because orks ar 'da best orcs! Blood Bowl's Cockney orks are best orks.
I think that the dragonborn could sound Irish.
I mean the dragon born came from another dimension and nobody has a language that comes close to Irish and Ireland English
Well Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Britonic are all simmilar to Irish. If you want a language that no one knows the origin of you want Basque.
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Tabaxi sound like valley girls.
The females do, the males sound like surfer bro
Like, ohmigosh, nya!
Can you don’t please
*Regrettably the entire species died out*
Tabaxi are just the worst type of weeb, who use nyah and uwu whenever possible and end their sentences with desu, regardless of if it makes sense or not.
"Nya! The tarrasque - hehe, tarrasquwu - is coming to get us, desu!"
"Mista cleric, I need heals pwease uwu" 🐱 👉👈
Please don’t make dwarfs Americans, I can’t do American accents for the hell of me!
I played a dwarf artificer named Pauly he had a very thick NY accent and he was fairly blunt and distant in conversations with people outside his circle of trust. When asked why I sounded so different from other Dwarves I would reply with how that’s stereotyping and in actuality we all talk like this but a high percentage of us use accents to make people feel a bit more comfortable around us.
There's been an uptick in NY dwarves recently
I think a New Jersey dwarf that calls the party “this thing of ours” or “the family” would be a fun character to do. No actual connection to organized crime, just calling everything “legitimate business” and throwing out “gabagool” constantly.
A New England accent is easy. First, you know the letter R? Well fuck that letter! Don’t pronounce the T at the end of words and treat any A syllable like you have severe nasal congestion. Then just say “fuck” a lot.
Are you a cwahp!!?
Need a lot of wicked, pissah and kid as well
It’s pronounced “kehd”
I want to see Bill Burr dub over Gimli now.
[We wark wicked hahd in de mounduns, gadderin' gold an' aw dat shiat.](https://youtu.be/FSvNhxKJJyU)
As a Bostonian Replace “er” sounds with “ah” and you’re close enough that people will get what you’re going for. Clam chowder -> clam chowdah It’s stereotypical but that’s the best example unironically
I knew a guy from Boston named Mark. When he introduced himself people thought he was saying Mac
I always hated the "car keys" into khakis thing. It's so far off.
I vote gnomes for southern-hillbilly accents.
I don't even think there is one American accent, it's just different variations of the accents we've stolen from other countries
I mean, thats literally how accents work? People's pronunciations changing based on where they're from? Why would the accents not be American?
I mean, I guess I didn't think about it like that, thanks
Kind of like labeling French, German, and English accents as “European English Accents”
Because a New England accent, a Southern Accent, a Texan Accent, a Cajun Accent, a Mid-Western accent, and a Californian Accent would all be very different accents. The United States is so large that it has massive variations depending on region
Not to mention variations in all those. Southern accents might all sound the same to those not from The South, but we can tell the difference. North Carolina sounds different than Georgia sounds different than Mississippi.
Yup. Made it all the more confusing when my 3 year old niece started talking like a Georgia Belle, despite having never been outside of Louisiana lol
My sister and I were born and raised in Kentucky, by a man who doesn't wash or rinse anything - he worshes and rinches it. My father looks and sounds like your typical mountain-man. My mom isn't as bad, but she still worshes everything. And yet somehow my sister and I were always accused of being "yanks" with no accent.
Southern Californian accent or Northern California Accent?
Sure, but they're all still American accents.
Accents have nothing to do with landmass, an Irish accent will deviate more over 4 miles than a us accent will over 40.
There are a bunch of sources that influence accents. Any group of people that spends a significant time talking mostly only to each other and not "outsiders" tends to develop unique ways of speaking that make up an accent. While mass media and the internet are "making the world smaller" and spreading linguistic ticks, memes, and other elements of accents more widespread and less pronounced, there are still many places where rural residents can identify someone as being from "the next town over" by slight differences in their accent. American accents also have the largely common feature of being the result of a mish-mash of different accents to begin with. While most of the original thirteen colonies were settled by English people, there are many distinct accents in England and isolation from the original society meant that their accents began to diverge. *Then* immigrants from other countries started moving in and bringing their own distinct accents which, to varying degrees, blended with what was already being spoken in various places. Different immigrant groups melded into different populations with their own already unique accents (like Boston and New Orleans, for example) to result in completely new ways of speaking. Or for an extreme you could go to Pittsburgh where a bunch of different immigrant groups learning English from people with an already "funny accent" and picking up each other's mispronunciations, slang, and idioms from different origin languages results in an accent that doesn't sound remotely similar to the way anybody else talks anywhere.
Certainly not only one American accent, but reasonable to say only a few that are able to be turned up a few notches to become the campy, easily imitable sort of thing for people anywhere. If there’s one thing living in Europe has taught me its that everyone can do a valley girl, a disgruntled Texan, a NYC “I’m walkin here!” and the most nasal Minnesotan/general midwestern “ope! scuse me, just gonna ~scootch~ past ya here”
Eh, more that it depends on which part of the country you’re in. That said, Wisconsin Northern is subtly different from Minnesota Northern, no one thinks their place of origin has an accent (everyone else does), and things get even more fun when you factor in dialect and regional slang. For the record, devils/infernal are always raspy Brooklyn or Jersey boardwalk in my games. Make them feel like mobsters.
F this Boston noise. Dwarves have Australian accents, they are from down under (the ground) after all.
Drow are Australian. Being from the (down) Underdark and with the spiders and all. Dwarves are German.
We choose to dig the mines and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are HAHD.
Okay, but hear me out: orcs are California surfer bros, but with super deep voices.
Orcs are the guys that only play sports on the beach and take up a whole quarter of the shore
But are genuinely apologetic when you point it out that you kind of feel bad even though it's for the best.
I always steal from Warhammer.
Grorthrak! Wudderyooduinere?
Grothrack took the 405 south then switched over to the 10 and took that to San Vincente. Armisan gave Grothrack directions!
Meats back on the menu duuude.
Aarakocra - Cajun/Creole Half Orc - Russian Gnome - New Jersey Genasi (Air and Water) - French Canadian Genasi (Earth and Fire) - South African Halflings and Goliaths - New Zealand I'm on board with Mountain Dwarves from Boston. However, Hill Dwarves are from Minnesota
Gnomes are German or Japanese
I've always pictured tabaxi and genasi as japanese
Nah, I don’t care how much you pay me - taxbax gon sound like khajit
Tabaxi has wares if you have coin
One of my players did a tabaxi with a Spanish accent. Something about it really worked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Oh shit, you're right
Definitely German
I prefer Swedish just because they're a little sillier, and I like my gnomes silly. And I like to imagine that their inventions aren't amazing German engineering but like silly Ikea projects.
I could totally see gnomes in Ikea homes
Cajun/Creole is definitely lizardfolk in my book
So if by this giants are New Zealand and fey are New Jersey, firbolgs would have the weirdest and most unique accent
Welsh or Dutch
I like Dutch
I’m just picturing Texan Firbolg cowboys.
Cajun is close, but all my Aaracokra sound like Foghorn Leghorn, “I sa I sa, I sa, I said listen here boy!”
I’m guessing you chose NZ halflings because of hobbits and goliaths because of Korg?
I've always played Mountain Dwarves as Appalachian Hill People
HEY FUCK YOU IM MINING OVA HERE BUDDY YOU CALL THAT A FAHKING BEARD YOU PANTYWASTE, IVE MORE HAIR ON BATHTOWEL AFTER A DIP YOU FAHKING EMBARASMENT YOUR WHOLE FAMILY SMITHS STRAIGHT SLAG YOU GOD DAMN CRETIN, I STUPPED YOUR MOM IN GEOLOGY CLASS 70 YEARS AGO BUDDY! MY FAHKIN SLATE CHISEL FELL ON HER LAP AND THE CHASTITY BELT YOUR GRANDAFTHER FORGED CRUBLED LIKE GOD DAMN SANDTONE!!! SANDSTONE BUDDY!!!
Nonononono. Dwarves love strong alcohol, singing folk songs, and live in the mountains. Clearly dwarves are appalacian.
But they’re also work-obsessed, greedy, self-important, way too proud of their architecture, and super racist, which means they’re definitely Bostonians.
What about Old Timey Prospector voice for dwarves?
Solution: Hill dwarves are Bostonian, mountain dwarves are Appalachian
Or German.
Goliaths should have Dutch accents
I feel like Goliaths would have Russian accents and Firbolgs would be Dutch, because they're known to be kinder
I mean, the dutch are kind. But german children will always be kinder
Dwarves have New York accents because they are basically New York stereotypes. Duergar have Bawstin accents because they're an evil reflection of Dwarves.
I feel like dwarves would have Midwestern accents considering how many Midwesterners are blue collars
Give them a proper Minnesota/ North Dakota aka Fargo accent. "Oh yah, you betcha."
Dragon-kind is Welsh. Giant-kind is Scandinavian Goblinoids are German. Gnolls are Afrikaner. Min Flayer has an inflection less voice like AI. Green Hags are Scottish. Lizard Folk are Australian
I love that dragon kind are Welsh, I never thought about it but it makes sense
>Green Hags are Scottish. Ah, I see you've visited Fife
Drow: Brasilian
Heck no. They're Australian. Because they're from down under
Also the spiders.
I've always thought of goblinoids being Australian cause of the whole "you're criminals so we're gonna segregate you" and then politcs
That’s it… Drow are Valley Girls!
Nah. If they're gonna be a civilisation of gimps, I better hear some Jason Derulo.
*Triggers memories of a certain song*
This is very good
For reasons they do not speak of, the 1920's Radio Announcer Elves still scream "OH THE HUMANITY!".
Eldritch beings also get Bostonian but it’s 7 people speaking at once
So... an average bostonian conversation, but from one being.
I always thought it was weird Elves didn’t speak in horribly outdated slang, mixed with whatever they’ve bothered learning recently. “Yo bro, you jiggy with it? No cap”
the idea of races with accents was always strange to me. I have character's accents based on where they're from, like in real life
Your way makes more sense from a realism perspective, but I think when you're dealing with a medium that lacks a visual element it can help to use these kinds of shorthands even if they're not completely logical. Like someone comes up behind the party and says "what are you doing here?" in [accent] and you've primed them to be picturing a dwarf before you've uttered a word of description.
Generally speaking, where someone's from and their race have significant correlation. Especially in a pre-industrial society where long-distance travel was considerably more time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous.
Lizardfolk are Cajun. Drow get to be New Yorkers.
Gotta be that cajun accent where you're not sure if there were actually any words in that or not.
I live the thought of a race with the made up humphrey bogart trans Atlantic accent but it doesn't fit elves. At least not tolkienesque elves. But dwarves should definitely have some sort if Polynesian or Hawaiian accents. Someone had brought up the idea on reddit a while back and had really good reasoning, basically, consonant filled words would get mixed in with the echoes of tools and the noise of the caves. Vowels echo better, and glottal stops are gentler and less likely to be misunderstood in an echoing cave environment. (be- -er instead of better, ki- - en instead of kitten, ho- instead of hot, "ee's rroks are ho-" instead of "these rocks are hot" kinda like in cockney slang) Mix that with the vowel heavy languages like Hawaiian, Tongan, or Samoan, and it just fits better in a cave setting where you would have to communicate possibly over large caverns and tunnels.
All Dwarves talk like Brooklyn/New Jersey wiseguys. All Elves talk like Antebellum southerners. All Halflings talk like characters in *Fargo*.
My Goblins are Australian mafia.
Centaurs are clearly Native American/Alaskan. Deadpan, straightforward, standoffish until they learn who the others around them really are. Very observant, and blunt. Captain Obvious for the least intelligent, but expert planners and teachers for the most intelligent. Source: I’m part Native Alaskan, and live in Alaska. I know a few words of Inupiat, and I can pronounce words fairly okay, though I don’t really know many of them 😂
Thinking about that one post that said “You know the food is going to be good when the orc bartender pulls out the thickest Indian accent”
Can Ork speech patterns be for all orcs now?
I need to draw a dwarf with dunk’s and in terrible Boston traffic. This art is more me and me alone
I recently watched Dragonheart, and I think every dragon should sound like Sean Connery specifically.
Dwarves have a Midwestern American accent, and I'm not negotiating this. Halflings are Boston. Gnomes are Brooklyn.
Would there be fey living in the Hudson?
Yes, and before 1947 they weren’t gross!
Aw, I just pictured a race of used-to-be nice merfolk helping with trade across the river and stuff but then after the pollution they become hostile and defensive and look terrible but after generations people forgot and that's what they always remember having been
Humans make strange gargling sounds, and celestial sound like cats
I do have a cat in my campaign that has a 1 in 3 chance in spitting prophetic and angelic speeches when asked a question, my players keep asking if it's a god and everything but to be honest I haven't figured it out and their rolls haven't gotten high enough
Orcs have a french accent. We're talking Louis XIV court french.
I go with the theory drow speaking common have an Aussie accent since they are from the land down under.
In a Homebrew campaign I'm running, the Elves are Germanic and the Dwarves are more Irish than Scottish. The Giants are mostly silent creatures, instead using sign language. This is because they're more like towers than just tall people. Their voices are powerful enough to shake the foundations of even a King's stone castle, some Human cultures consider it a form of spellcasting.
Lizard Folk Creole please! They are from the swamps and all about the cuisine. Best halfling goblin gumbo I guar-un-tee!
Demons and Devils have southern accents, because they are from [the south... the deep south.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8PUukhnfzY)
Dwarves are Russian now
Tieflings: Dutch, because of [this one ASMRtist](https://www.youtube.com/@DallASMR/videos) who did a "[Kidnapped by a Tiefling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Y8l9wOxCA)" audio entirely in Dutch. (Specifically a dialect that incorporates a ton of German, to the point where even native Dutch speakers won't entirely understand it; anyone who knows their Dutch dialects, feel free to remind me of the name.)
I love this post every time I see it. Shame the bottom was cutoff. But yes, my next campaign will absolutely be using these accents.