Mandarin for Gnomish?
Mandarin for Gnomish?
46 comments
-
spanish is draconic? i thought we all agreed that draconic is german
edit: also as a brazilian, portuguese is too goofy for abyssal
-
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
-
-
Sylvan should be Old Spanish like the faun in Pans Labyrinth
-
Man, I should watch that again. It's been ages.
-
-
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"
-
-
People behind Minions: hold my banana.
-
I need an adult!
-
I am an adult
-
-
-
French? Nah, infernal is Regex
-
-
Explanation by Matt Parker: How on Earth does
\^.?$|\^(..+?)\1+$produce primes?
-
-
-
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.
-
So lojban for gnomes
-
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.
-
-
-
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!
-
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.
-
skajrimm bälångs to de nårds
-
I've always been a fan of that trope. I like to do a Brooklyn goblin from time to time.
-
-
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
-
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
-
-
-
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.
-
In a homebrew setting still in construction, Volapük is the language of a secret society.
-
I used esperanto as elvish
-
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.
-
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
-
-
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.
46 comments