i do a spot on mr krabbs for "fishguts" kroop
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"For Barnabus 'Arrigan, I and I talk in a mix of Jamaican and pirate patois."
For Kroop I use the classic salty pirate voice.
For Rosie I use cuss laden Irish accent.
For Conchobar I use vaguely latino (think Puss in Boots from Shrek).
For anyone Chelish I use an Italian accent.
For Master Scourge I use something akin to Barbossa.
For Mr. Plugg I use a nasal cockney accent.
For Sandara I use a vaguely british sotto pirate (because girl voices are hard okay?)
Owlbear sounds a lot like that monster from the warner brothers cartoons "I'm going to kiss him, and hug him and love him and call him George." Except when he's mad, then "OWLBEAR SMASH RRRAARRRGGGHHH!"
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So I've found that when I am playing my captain, I pretty much talk in the style of Captain Barbossa. It just kinda happened ;-) Does anyone else have this style of voice (or other recognizable styles)?
My Ulfen Barbarian is basically Brock Sampson from Venture Brothers, and I do the voice surprisingly well.
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For me:
Harrigan has a deep caribbean voice. Light on the accent, since I'm not too great at doing that one.
Scourge has a typical Barbosa-style pirate accent.
Plugg actually has a standard American accent for a good reason (in my customization of the campaign he's Chelish)
Rosie has an outrageous Scottish brogue.
Fishguts slurs and mumbles constantly.
Grok has a Cockney accent.
Sandara has an American accent simply because I haven't gotten creative with her yet. Maybe I should go Boston with her?
And that's about all that I've done so far in one session.
The voices are why I'm conflicted about potentially doing the game over voicechat on Skype. On one hand, what's the point of a pirate game if you can't do pirate voices? On the other, I'm not sure if my range of pirate voices is big enough.
That said, on my short-lived initial run several months back I started out trying to make Harrigan Keith David. I couldn't quite pull it off but I liked the result: deep and rolling, with a kind of laid-back menace.
Plugg is nasaly and British, though more the former than the latter. Not sure about Scourge just yet.
For Fishguts, I mixed the generic pirate "accent" with drunken slurring to the point of being unintelligible. I plan on making his voice clearer and clearer the more he sobers up, but maintain a heavy use of maritime slang and euphemisms.
I was worried about Riaris Krine, because she apparently "makes Rosie Cusswell sound like a nun" and I was already going to give the halfling a Carlinesque vocabulary; where to go from there? Then I decided to get clever and just convey her messages to the players with the addendum, "I'd tell you what she actually SAID, but even I have my limits with these things."
"I'd tell you what she actually SAID, but even I have my limits with these things."
That's funny.... and not a bad idea. ;D
Over on the Play-by-Post threads different DMs have handled this in diofferent ways. One fellow is doing a fime job of having Rosie spout off in impressive but not-quite-obscene pirate invective, while another fellow has her speech looking like "&^&%*$#@$ nice #$%@&%!! &^$#&@!! ^&%$ day today, %$^&#*@!! isn't it $#%^#&^#!!& ?"
The latter approach isn't particularly useful at the tabletop, but it is amusing to read.
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I decided to not even attempt to convey Krine's speech. I just said that the PCs had trouble picking out her meaning amidst all of the profanity.
And after the party's ninja failed ay [b]four consecutive attempts to hit the Wormwood's AC 5 with the grappling hook[/i], even Krine was at a loss for words. She just kicked the ninja off the jolly boat into the water and told her to swim back to the ship.
At which point the ninja failed three DC 10 swim checks and almost drowned.
Just started playing this but
* Rosie is definitely from Brooklyn in my game.
* Harrigan is standard (refined) pirate...the idea of Jamaican hadn't even crossed my mind but I may make a course-correction with him.
* Plugg is standard pirate.
* Scourge is slurry, arrrry pirate.
* Cog is John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever...I think, but I only just noticed as I started thinking about it.
* Shortstone is rather Night at the Roxbury. He's clever though...well. One of the PCs told him to go cozy up with his own hand and he made a song out of it, "Magic Hand" to the tune of Heart's questionable hit.
* I reckon Aretta Bansion is a little New York too, less twang though.
That's it for me.
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I ended up voicing Shortstone as mockney (of course he's putting it on) and Sandara as closer to Irish. Unfortunately, they both got fed to lacedons.
I always think of the Taldan accent as upperclass-British, with Chelish as Italian.
I voiced Meril Pegsworthy as Sam the Eagle: "Now now, you can all talk about Free Captain Harrigan freely to me. In all honesty... The man is a weirdo."
Tsadok Goldtooth will sound like a throatier Billy Connely, and I imagine Bonefist to sound tired and slightly slurred.
Kroop sounds like john silver from treasure planet in my game,and plugg sounded and acted like one of the Sergeants i didn't like from my Air Force days. im gonna have to steal some things from here just to diversify my npcs, loving the antonio banderas for shortstone and the brooklyn for rosie.
Who should get the Christopher Walken Voice?
Here is what I am thinking so far.
Harrigan- Slow Deep Gravelly but boisterous- Imposing Klingon Warrior
Rosie- Cockney
Bonefist- Captian Teegue (Keith Richards) from Pirates of the Carribean
Owlbear- Joe Coffee (Michael Clarke Duncun) from Green Mile
Cronchobar- Raging french accent from Holy Grail
Croop- Mr. Gibbs from POTC
More to come.
I purloined all my voices from other sources:
Harrigan - Captain Bloth from Pirates of Dark Water
Kroop - Dudley Moore's Arthur
Crimson - Konk from Pirates of Dark Water
Sandara - Juliette from Lollipop Chainsaw
Conchobar - Sidesow Mel from The Simpsons
Barefoot Samus Toppin - Pam from Archer
Plugg - Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street
Scourge - Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean
Rosie Cusswell - Ed from Shaun of the Dead
Vendor - Fantasiapelit Tampere
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I purloined all my voices from other sources:
Harrigan - Captain Bloth from Pirates of Dark Water
Kroop - Dudley Moore's Arthur
Crimson - Konk from Pirates of Dark Water
Sandara - Juliette from Lollipop Chainsaw
Conchobar - Sidesow Mel from The Simpsons
Barefoot Samus Toppin - Pam from Archer
Plugg - Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street
Scourge - Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean
Rosie Cusswell - Ed from Shaun of the Dead
That is so much win. This would be great, but when you play in Finnish, it suddenly becomes boring. I can only dream How much more character I could add to these gentlemen with some grutty Scottish or Irish accent. I can tell you, nobody can sound even remotely cool with Finnish accents. Sure, the joke works two or three times but that's it then.
Sometimes I wish I could play in English. Once in Society I did, and my Inquisitor sounded lot more like Cesare Borgia than usually :D