spanish is draconic? i thought we all agreed that draconic is german
edit: also as a brazilian, portuguese is too goofy for abyssal
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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
Sotaque mineiro pra experiencia anã completa, sô
Mineiro accent for full dwarfish experience
Sylvan should be Old Spanish like the faun in Pans Labyrinth
Man, I should watch that again. It's been ages.
I don't think dragons have the soft tissue necessary to pronounce the consonant clusters like Strumpf.
i dont know about D&D but in pathfinder basically all dragons can speak a whole bunch of languages, so i'd be surprised if there's something in a human language they couldn't pronounce
Brazilian Portuguese is too "melodic" for abyssal, but some European Portuguese accents can work.
eh pt portuguese would work better for elvish
pt-pt eats so many vowels you'd think it's some sort of earth elemental tongue
yeah, maybe it could be goblin language. goblins like eating everything too
People behind Minions: hold my banana.
I need an adult!
I am an adult
French? Nah, infernal is Regex
All I remember from my infernal class is to ask if a number is prime....
^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$
Explanation by Matt Parker: How on Earth does \^.?$|\^(..+?)\1+$ produce primes?
Yeah thatll do the trick too, I couldn't find the video so I just copy pasted something from stack overflow
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.
skajrimm bälångs to de nårds
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
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!
Gnomish should be more artificial. Esperanto.
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.
Oh absolutely, Common is always Esperanto in my games with something like its history mapped onto whatever world I’m running. That leaves space for regional languages to be everything else.
So lojban for gnomes
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
fwiw it's not exactly difficult, it's just weird english basically. The alphabet is literally just english with different symbols.
Thanks, something kinda of clicked for me now, gonna give another try with this in mind
Its funny how Michael Meyers decided ogres are Scottish and Scottish people are kind of ok with it.
looks at glasgow "yeah you know what that checks out, fairy'noff"
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.
I used esperanto as elvish
Based French hater.
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
I thought the accent for the orc in solo leveling really enhanced the experience.
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.
In a homebrew setting still in construction, Volapük is the language of a secret society.
Polish for the thieves cant. Kurwa
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.
it could work if they agree to just be underpowered, like they have parts of each class' standard kit and it mostly doesn't work well but every now and then they can get some sweet sweet synergy from some abilities and save the day.
And because of this José always feels a bit left out, so he's always eager to do something useful even if it's just casting mage light (which is one of the few spells he can wrap his head around).
He's also just generally a really nice guy and he's great at mundane things like cooking and he doesn't complain, so he doesn't quite realize that his party is being pretty mean and taking advantage of him. But over time the others just can't help but start considering him a close friend and he becomes a vital part of the team.
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.