>his fantasy voices are in anachronistic American "accents"

>>47730715
>>his fantasy voices are in anachronistic American "accents"

Who's?

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>>47730715
>as if this was a shitty fantasy
pretty much summed up most tabletop.

>>47730715
anon i have literally no idea what this post is supposed to mean

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>>47730715
It's funny, from my understanding the "American" accent actually generally uses older pronunciation styles than the "British" accent (these terms being broad shorthand for large and varied groups of dialects, obviously). A lot of Shakespeare, for example, actually reads closer to how we think it was originally spoken when using American pronunciation styles.
Iirc, it has something to do with the fact that English people were being heavily influenced by French and other languages, while American English speakers tended to be a lot more isolated and thus didn't develop as much. Hence why you can allegedly find populations in the Appalachians who say shit like "asketh".

Anyway, using accents can be a good shorthand for class/culture. I ran a game set in Feudal Japan where I used accents from the British Isles to more easily reflect class (the Daimyo is very posh, the up jumped peasant is speaking pseudo cockney, etc). Do you think maybe the person in question was trying for this sort of effect?

>>47730715

To be fair, American accents don't have the tone right, but their structure and pronounciation is closer to old English than modern Broadcasting Standard.

>>47731061
>"asketh"

Never heard of this.

>I ran a game set in Feudal Japan where I used accents from the British Isles to more easily reflect class (the Daimyo is very posh, the up jumped peasant is speaking pseudo cockney, etc).

Fucking cringeworthy.

>>47731061

There's also written evidence dealing with different ways to spell words, as well as the fact that colonies like New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia were established after America and Canada. The last two colonies were established before the rest, which is a possible explanation for why American and Canadian accents are so different from New Zealand's.

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>>47731061

>Anyway, using accents can be a good shorthand for class/culture. I ran a game set in Feudal Japan where I used accents from the British Isles to more easily reflect class (the Daimyo is very posh, the up jumped peasant is speaking pseudo cockney, etc).

>>47730715
What accents should he use? Some sort of meticulously crafted fantasy accent? Or do you want him to use even more anachronistic halfassed britbong accents because that's what's used in muh LotR movies?

Sorry anon, Im a bad dm. I can't emulate a goblin, elven, or draconic accent well, so I just give everybody comedy accents. Although the gold dragon probably shouldn't have been voiced like nanny ogg.