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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I just use different American accents, mostly because I'm American.

Also, because hillbilly gnomes are funny

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Undercommon is just really thick Australian accent.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I played a furry porn game where otters spoke Tagalog and honestly, yeah that's fine

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Pfft, all dwarves are either Scottish or German. Just a fact.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Dwarves are Scottish, goblins are German.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I like that one podcast where they established that a dwarf was caught in a dimensional rift and went to Scotland for a number of years before finding a way back home. But he brought back the accent and all the dwarves loved how it sounded so now all dwarves speak with bad copies of a Scottish accent.

    Probably because the DM can't keep his accent straight. But fun nevertheless.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    IMO - Racial/Ethnic/National Coding isn't inherently wrong. But using that coding to push Stereotypes and oppressive mindsets is.

    Rule of thumb, if you're worried you will in some way cross that line, don't do coding.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Not oppressive mindset, but i'm ok with stereotypes too.

    Because it can be funny, in comedy racial jokes are always set in some stereotypes for a reason. I think RP is mostly that, fun and joking around.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I have my own language mappings in my homebrew. Most of them only appear as names since most people speak Common, but I did include some people in my game who don't. (I make sure that they are some who speak a language that I speak too.) So the mappings are:

    1. Common - English. We're playing in English, duh. (Before contact with Elves, humans spoke "proto-Common" which would be mapped to German if I had to use it. Many humans still have German names.)
    2. (High) Elvish - French. Yes, in-universe the Common language has plenty of Elvish influence. (Classical Elvish is Latin.)
    3. (Wood) Elvish - Greek. Most Wood Elves speak High Elvish, but their names are Greek and many of them still speak their own language as well. The continents and seas are often named in Ancient Wood-Elvish (i.e., classical Greek) because they used to be the primary explorers before the rise of the High Elves.
    4. Dwarvish - modern Dwarvish is Norwegian, old Dwarvish is Icelandic.
    5. Halfling - Frisian. (Fortunately I haven't had to say anything in Halfling so far.)
    6. Gnomish - Welsh. (Again, fortunately I haven't had to say anything in Gnomish yet.)
    7. Orc - Russian.
    8. Goblin - Mongolian.
    9. Tellurian (not a species, but an influential country) - Spanish. Many people alongside the Bay of Luria speak Tellurian as their native language instead of Common or their racial language.
    10. Sylvan - Finnish. (My go-to for weirder names as well. Many Fey-related creatures have Finnish names, as well as those who live near Fey portals.)
    11. Giant - Hungarian. (They feature a lot in Hungarian folk tales.)
    12. Draconic - Hindi.
    13. Hashiman (not a species, but a group of eight islands - though they are also the Kenku homeland so most Kenku speak this as their native language) - Japanese-ish. The language comes in two dialects, Hanego which is used primarily by Kenku but also Aaracokra, Owlin, Tortles, and other creatures with hard beaks that have difficulty pronouncing M and N, and Hadago which is used by the rest. They are identical in writing, differ mostly in pronouncing those sounds.
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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Esperanto is gnomish

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Just want to point out that draconic has quite a lot of words already defined, as well as a few grammar rules. 1. Draconic, 2. Draconic Primer, and 3. Lonely Planet Vayemniri (vayemniri being the endonym for dragonborn in the Realms—a race that absolutely despises dragons wouldn’t exactly be happy about a name that says "dragon").

    I’m not sure what real-world language would be the best analogue. Maybe something Germanic?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    You can't be racist against the French. Same way you can't be racist against dogs.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Latin is Primordial

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I use portuguese for common, english for elvish, japanese for abyssal and i'm learning dovahzul to use as draconic, i'm thinking on learning german too but i don't know what it will be yet

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Goblinoids are German, with various tribes having dialectual differences (my personal fave is the Heßisch goblins of the wooded riverlands, famed for their spider silk surfing), but the most insidious in both regards is the hobgoblin Sweiß-Deutsch.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Works at larps too. One I go to (in NL) has Dutch as common, and we use English as Elvish and, depending on with whom I talk, I express Dwarvish with either Scottish English, Northern English or German. If I really want to commit to the bit, I should learn High German or an Austrian dialect for Dwarvish.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Jello Apocalypse and crew did a Let's Play of Skies Of Arcadia that was fantastic for a variety of reasons. Everybody in the Chinese-coded nation got Southern accents. It was... an alarmingly apt choice.

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