>when the DM starts to voiceact NPCs

>>49173784
i enjoy that even when they're not very good at it

>>49173784
tfw voice actress

>>49173784
nigga that's the best, stfu

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>Implying that isn't the greatest shit.

OP is a faggot.

>>49173784
What, you'd rather have the DM just be like "so then he starts monologuing and it's very dramatic and scary"?

fuck you

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>they're good at it

>>49173872
He probably wants the DM to just hurry up and stop taking so he can go on his power fantasy quicker.

>>49173799
>>49173825
>>49173840
>>49173872
t. plebs

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>DM starts to describe the environment as if it were real

what a fucking fag

>>49173935
>He wants the DM to stop taking so he can get back to his numbers-wank session.

FTFY

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>>49173784
>When the DM puts in effort for our benifit

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>it's too "nerdy" for him

we're playing dungeons and dragons for fucks sake

it doesn't get any nerdier than this unless we bring bodypillows

>>49173784
Wait, hold on, I thought that this is always how it works? That's what I do, and in my entire pen and paper career I've never seen someone who doesn't act out their npcs.

>>49177685
I guess isn't when you're a faggot OP

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>>49173784
>>49173978

>>49173978
>called out and counter-rused
>"b-b-b-b-better break out muh pleb trigger word xD"

Hi OP.

Nice try, but you just got told. :^)

Anyone can make up shit and post it on the internet, but it takes legit skill to riff off that and serve the other guy. Your response tells me you don't have that skill. You probably spent about 45 mins coming up with your OP, and then when you were challenged within minutes, you fell apart. Your cover was blown, you had to fall back on a simple variation of "u mad". You choked bro. You choked hard. And now everyone knows your OP was simple b8.

Oh no! Nobody's falling for it! What are you going to do? Let's see you wriggle on my hook a bit more, kid. Dance up a merry jig and maybe I'll give you a few pointers on how to b8 properly when you're done.

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>>49173784
>When the DM tries to craft a believable and engaging world full of vibrant and memorable characters.

>>49173784
>Mfw the DM tries to do things.

How about a better discussion?

What was the worst voice your GM has ever done for an NPC?

>bog-standard D&D campaign
>we've been playing for maybe 20 sessions
>one day one of the players notices that we've only ever met male NPCs
>bring this up to the DM
>"Uh yeah well you guys know I like doing the voices and I don't really feel comfortable doing a girl voice"
>Make fun of the DM all session and try to find women NPCs for him to voice
>None to be found
>Session ends and we tell DM again how a female NPC would really add to the world & the campaign
>Next session
>Party is rampaging through a haunted town and looking for survivors
>Discover a farmer girl in a church
>Begin to interrogate her
>Notice the DM is making noises and fucking with something behind the screen
>All of a sudden DM starts voicing this girl in the most insane high pitched voice
>We peek behind his screen and the guy has 3 or 4 balloons
>He's huffing helium so he can do the girl voice
>Make the farmer girl stay with the party so he can keep doing the voice
>He goes through 3 balloons, is close to passing out by the end of the session
Never met another woman NPC in the entire campaign.

>>49174363
Wait, we're not supposed to bring our body pillows?

Im fine with shitposting but shit talking voice acting in games is to fucking far old /tg/ might have been cringy and easily trolled but fuck

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>>49173784
>when the people sitting around my table start adopting the mannerisms and personas of characters built within the parameters of a role playing game we all agreed to play at this designated time.

>start a new campaign with all new players
>worried they'll be awkward and not want to get into character
>voice act the first NPC they meet, wait for them to make fun of it
>"Whoa I didn't know you would do the voices, just like on Critical Role!"
>They all love it and try to find weird NPCs to get me to do unusual voices
I never thought I'd say this, but thanks Felicia Day.

>>49178073

OPs probably one of those competitive table top gamers who ruined 40k general and other games

>then the PCs have the gall to act in character instead of the collection of tables they actually are

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>When people are having fun playing the game

>>49173978
t. Barbarian

In Rogue Trader I played a Techpriest and just did the voice of the Enginseer from Dawn of War whenever I spoke. My friends found that funny.

Guys I played d&d for the first time and consistently role played my character and did his voice during lines of dialogue. How else are you supposed to do it?

>>49174363
>not bringing your bodypillow to the bossfight
Where else are you supposed to draw your power from ?

>>49178094
Funny enough, my country's best WHFB player (now KoW) always plays in character. OP is merely a scrub.

>>49177965
This is legitimately really funny.

>>49177965
>one day one of the players notices that we've only ever met male NPCs
>bring this up to the DM
>"Uh yeah well you guys know I like doing the voices and I don't really feel comfortable doing a girl voice"
Literally me. Maybe I see to go buy some helium.

>>49177717
what if those of us on /tg/ now are the moriquendi and all the calaquendi are long, long gone?

>>49178526
>>49177965
>one day one of the players notices that we've only ever met male NPCs
Is it weird that I have the opposite problem? I only really like playing female NPCs. I actually had to make a conscious effort to try and include more male characters in my last game when I realized that I'd unwittingly made all the significant NPCs women.

>>49177965
Wow, that's impressively terrible. All my DM does is do monster roars. Imagine a thirty year old man going "Blaaaaagh!" or "Graaaaar!" like a small child and you'll get a pretty good idea of what our sessions are like.

>>49178567
Some of us are still here, dispensing bad ass advice and harkening back to the glorious days of when we could proudly look among all other boards, holding us in our rightful place. Exemplifying the truths of: /tg/, we get shit done.

But mostly some of us have realized that while the boards are a wasted space of verbal diarrhea from the mouths of many hapless OPs, who swarm this once proud bourd to turn this place into "epic gets pseudo-/b/ lelkekhurdur", the good days are beyond us.

That and a lot of the Originalfags are in a tight play circle. 5th edition was a nice ice breaker and has helped us gain a lot of newcomers to the table. A shame that this brought so many normies, however this is their problem, not ours. We tell our stories, watch them as engrossed in the game as the rest of us, enjoy good company and good games.

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When the players want to bang girls in your game and expect you to roleplay it with them

>>49178452
>always plays in character

This is the only fucking way to play those wargames.

>>49177717
Yeah can you stop posting this cringe shit. I remember 4chan before the <90 IQ stormfag "punny guy" invasion. I don't need a couple paragraphs of autistic prose to remind me.

>>49179585
>just started my first ever world of darkness game last week
>playing mage the ascension 2nd edition
>guy i know online who ive begged to GM for me for months since im really new to this whole thing
>me and one other player
>his character description is far more in depth than mine
>maxed out appearance
>tempted to try and bang his character just to see how uncomfortable i can make both him and our GM
>GM sais that,yes, i can try to do that but he'd prefer it if i didn't

how much of a cunt am I if I try to do this?

im cult of ecstasy and depending on how GM would handle me using manipulation/intimidation, i could probably rape the other player, though i really have no plans to do so. its mostly fun to fuck with them out of game and tell them i'll do this, i highly doubt i'd ever do it in game because that 1st session was so fucking great and i dont wanna ruin it.

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>>49173784
>DM starts quoting doujin lines out of context
>I'm the only one busting my gut at the table and everyone gives me funny looks

>>49178082
Critical Role is the most I'm-not-sure-if-I-approve thing I know.

I mean all but one of the players are great (you know the one) but goddamn the association with the "LOL SO GEEKY" twats is hard to swallow. It did get me back into tabletop games though.

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>>49173784
Your reaction image is ambiguous.

DM's should always voice act their NPCs, otherwise they're not roleplaying. Roleplaying games without roleplaying are somewhat dull.

>tfw not sure if OP is faggot or not

>>49173799
>>49173825
>>49173840
>>49173872

No, he would rather explain what he says, so that the players don't have to have their immersion ruined by hearing some shitty, poorly acted, faggot with a stutter pretend to be some make-believe fairy or elf.

>>49180722
Sounds like you've just had shitty DMs

our DM totally nails all his voice acting and scene setting. truly creates total immersion.

Having someone flatly state what an NPC says is not conducive to immersion, although I can image it's better than poor voice acting if your DM is really sub-par.

>>49180780
Nah, I cringed even when Chris Perkins DM'ed that session with Robot Chicken, and started using weird voices for the characters.

Unless you're an award winning voice actor with the vocal range of Mike Patton, you're going to be shit.

>>49180420
>using 'stormfag'
>calling others autistic
0/10

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>MFW when my GM makes physical props for us to interact with such as figurines, maps, and tangible treasure or coinage
>MFW when my GM adds appropriately subdued music to add to the atmosphere of a game
>MFW when my GM tries to put any effort into my games at all
>MFW I am and will eternally be a shitstain player

>>49180833
>having the standards of a high-end drama director
>for some fuck trying to voiceact during a game
You're That guy

>>49180997
>a tripfag is a stupid prick that probably either doesn't have any friends or only has friends that are just as or more of a stupid prick than he is

SHOCKING

>>49178673
have you spoken to a therapist that specialises in gender identity issues yet?

>>49178673
It's not a unique problem. I do it as well, and it only even occurred to me that it was an issue when one of my players started poking fun at another of them because they were 'waifuing' an NPC who the party had been hanging around with for a few sessions. Not an easy thing to fix without making it obvious, since my players are used to long-term NPCs that are developed slowly over weeks, so I couldn't just introduce the sausage brigade and expect my players to not raise eyebrows, not to mention it would have diluted all the NPCs just because I would have been dividing my effort between them all.

Issue has since been remedied over the last couple dozen sessions, but the ratio is still like 45:55 in favour of chicks. I'm more or less okay with that though.

>>49180780
>Can't voice act
>'Shitty DM'

Some of us just want to tell a story with some friends, and have a shitty voice that can barely change in pitch or tone at the best of times. Trying to get me to emote properly is like getting blood from a stone.

I run a game online, and while we use a VOIP program, we tend to relegate it to OOC chatter and bants, while serious narrative and roleplay is kept strictly to text, including actions and body language and the like. A few benefits to this: 1) I (nor my players) need not subject everyone to my atrocious voice, 2) I (nor my players) need not voice act female characters, compounding the first issue with another layer of awkwardness, 3) There is a log of all narrative which I can reference if I realise I am missing a note on something, and 4) The voice-shy players are more easily included in the game.

I mean, yeah, if I was a master voice actor then voicing dialogue would probably be more immersive, but then my players would feel pressured to do so as well, and they might not be masters. Maybe if you picked up your entire group at a Shakespearean acting troupe meet, it could work, but otherwise you're going to end up with at least one side or part of a conversation being notably worse, which I think ruins immersion far more than just not doing VA at all.

>>49173978
>what is roleplaying?
faget

>voiceacts my character the first ten minutes
>forget about it the rest of the campaing

That's it. I remember a guy who spent the whole session in character and it was the creppiest shit. Never again

>>49180420
>everybody who disagrees with me is a stupid nazi

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>>49173784
>when the DM has anything other than orcs in 10-square-foot rooms guarding treasure chests
You're a fucking moron OP, I hope you step on a d4

>>49181023

Gender is a lifestyle choice. Going to a therapist over that would be like going to a therapist because you're a metalhead who's worried he's turning into a seapunk.

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>>49181532
>Gender is a lifestyle choice.

>>>/tumblr/

>>49181532
WTF is a seapunk?

Everyone in this thread apparently has Sir Ian Mckellen for a DM, because I've had some horrendously cringey DM voice acting. Like, thirteen year old 'spooky demon voice' coming out of a fully grown twenty three year old man bad.

A good DM should still change the way he speaks depending on the character, but it should be subtle so that the bulk of it can be left to the imagination. He should never try to actually 'become' the character unless he has a theater background, because it kills the immersion and rapes its corpse.

>>49181545

That's biological sex, not gender. :)

>>49181553
2cool4u gramps?

>>49181572
Nah, most people just aren't autistic enugh to need Sir Ian to be "immersed".

>>49181591
>most people just aren't autistic
congratulations anon, you're a normie. How's that DnD Twitch Stream going?

>>49181532
So please tell us how you can change your X/Y chromosome and exchange your testicals/ovaries with the power of positive thinking.

>>49181587
One google later and if that degree of faggotry is "cool" I'd rather be Square.

>>49181532
fortunatenly lifestyle choices do not have to be taken seriously.

>>49181601
>Everyone who plays pretend is autistic
Nope.

>>49181622
Of course not. Just the ones who aren't basic as fuck.

>>49181643
>Autism, a condition that retard social skills, makes an inherently social activity better.
Can't say I agree with that logic TeeBeeHaych.

>>49181553
Bullshit hipster music that claims to be deeper than it is. I'm pretty sure the entire genre, and all it's subgenres, are one giant practical joke that all the 'artists' who make it are in on.

Like that one time some famous artist submitted a toilet as their piece of artwork, and the people running the exhibit actually displayed it.

>>49181690
Much as I agree a toilet isn't art, the act of displaying it did provoke a response. So maybe the act is art, not the object? Either way, it's a shitter.

>Music
Shit, it looked like just faggy cosplay, like those steampunk types. I don't even want to know how it sounds, but it sounds like a joke.

For players and DMs who feel too awkward voicing characters, I have a bit of advice, it's a little icebreaker I picked up a while back and it works wonders: Play a pirate.

If you're a player, roll up a scurvy sea dog, and if you're a DM, run an adventure with pirates. I guarantee you won't be able to keep that voice from spilling out of you. What's better, it's a voice that everybody can do. You'll sound natural, appropriate for the game, players will know you're a good DM, DMs will know you're a good player. From there, it's easy to segue out into other atrocious accents.

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>>49173784
>When the GM tries to make the game enjoyable for the players

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> mfw i incarnate a female npc i can't help doing it with a slutty voice

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>DM changes his posture and bodylanguage to fit the NPC he portrays

>>49174113
Fixed it? You just replaced one statement with another that means the same thing, without correcting the typo. Go fuck yourself.

about the only thing I can do well is a fairly stereotypical southern drawl from years of growing up down in Georgia as such a surprising number of games take place in the deep south...I need to start working on more goddamn accents. That said I always try to have at least semi-thematic background music in the background or at least just metal.

I only like it when it's obviously a light campaign or played out for laughs but if you do it for every single person and completely dead serious then it gets kinda annoying especially since no dm can fucking do 10+ accents all well

>>49180863
If stormfags are from stormfront, they are autistic. Stormfront is genuinely trying to recruit autists because they can't attract any normies.

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>>49173784
>when you never play a dwarf because you can't do the accent

>>49181686
It doesn't, but normies don't need fantasy roleplay to learn social skills, while autists do. They're everywhere, and it's hard to tell them apart from the other weirdos in this hobby.

>player is playing a nordic character called Sven
>attempts a tough guy norse accent
>sounds like he's from wales

I don't attempt character voices because I know they'd come out bad and detract from the experience. Also how do you guys signify your character is speaking in another language?

>>49182055
As a nordic guy my attempts at Scottish ends up closer to Russian.

>>49180722
If you are not into /tg/ why do you play /tg/s?

>>49182055
>Also how do you guys signify your character is speaking in another language?
He speaks with an accent, or maybe just ponders over his words, and uses expressions that make no sense in English, but are literal translations of expressions in other languages.

>>49173784
Fuck you, if I'm roleplaying some NPC i want the party to remember, of course I'll give them a fucking voice.
But if a DM is acting out a dialogue between two NPCs, now that triggers the fuck out of me

>>49181607

Biological sex =/= gender.

I know it's hard for you rednecks and shitistan foreigners to understand, but keep at it, you'll get it one day.

>>49181610

A point I make routinely, and yet SJWs still feel the need to scream and rave about what is effectively a subculture.

>>49181553
tumblrinas trying to claim their own musical outpost

mostly it's a bunch of them labeling certain artists seapunk and those artists going 'ok whatever senpai'

>>49182289
>Biological sex =/= gender.
No matter how hard you believe and clap your hands a man can not become a woman.

You can have your meat and veg hacked off on the surgery slab but all that that will make you is a eunuch.

>>49182364
Sure, because that's the biological sex.

What was unclear about the initial point?

>>49182263
I agree, but the opposite is also weird if you think about it.

>>49179739
This.

Not matter how cringy I find people talking like Orks on /tg/ is, whenever I find someone in real life who does while playing I can't help but smile.

>make gritty Scandinavian dark fantasy setting with lots of undead
>realise too late that I can't do a good scandi accent
>every NPC sounds like the fucking Swedish chef
>no-one can take the setting seriously.

Feels bad that I can't do the dark setting I originally planned. Should I just cut my losses, run with it and go with a more comedy horror feel?

>>49182694
stop making accent then, it could fix it

>>49182451
My point isn't that gender/sex is not a life style choice anymore than having legs is.

It's an inherent and basic part of humanity and based on something other than feelings.

>>49182738
Everything except for the biological stuff is completely arbitrary, based entirely on feelings and codified feelings (aka tradition).

>>49182738
Gender=/=Sex.

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>DM asks us for general ideas of what we'd like to see in the campaign so that he can tailor it to be more fun for each of us
>DM seemingly effortlessly comes up with vibrant NPC personalities for everyone we strike up even a brief conversation with
>DM crafts such an immersive experience that we occasionally forget about things like having to wait our turn when the party splits up

>>49182802
"Gender" is for words, "sex" is for people

>>49180722
>trusting a skellyman

>>49182738
Google Gender anon, because you seem to treat Sex and Gender as synomous.
They aren't.

>>49182786
>he isn't genetically predetermined to cut his hair short
>the word "he" isn't imprinted on his genetics

stay pleb

>>49182802
>>49182839
You guys realise that's a sociological theory and not an objective fact? There is literally nothing wrong with disbelieving in gender (and only believing in sex) as a concept in humans.

>>49182263
>But if a DM is acting out a dialogue between two NPCs, now that triggers the fuck out of me
Fucking this. We had a session once that basically amounted to us following around an NPC, ostensibly as bodyguards, while he talked to other NPCs.

And absolutely nothing fucking happened. We just sat there and listened and occasionally chimed in when prompted. I almost never fuck with my phone during games, but I spent at least half that session shitposting on /tg/ to pass the time.

>>49182364

You seem unable to grasp the idea that woman/man carries a different meaning under gender than it does under biological sex.

You also conflate gender with biological sex.

This isn't some SJW shit. It's basic conceptual categorization. If you don't get it then it's either your cultural blinkers or your low intelligence.

>>49182867
>There is literally nothing wrong with disbelieving in gender (and only believing in sex) as a concept in humans.
If anything that's the norm.

>>49182880
>Not seeing the forest through the trees

>>49182867
>it's just a theory

Classic conservatard response. Always makes me laugh to see the Right, big believers in absolute truth, fall back onto classical skepticism when they can't make any headway against people who are using reason.

Your argument, when applied to gender, relies on essentialism which you have no means of proving.

And for the record, gender and biological sex are distinct concepts. That's no more "just a theory" than saying that "music" and "painting" as distinct artforms is "just a theory".

>>49182880
Exactly. It really annoys me when people state that gender is objectively real because it is in the dictionary. It's the equivalent of telling an atheist to google the definition of 'God' and expecting his immediate conversion.

>>49182055
Usually when I do this, it's for characters who speak common as a second language. Their vocabulary in common is simple and in their own language expands quite a bit. I preface their speech with "in (language)" and then go into that character's voice.

>>49182867
Never claimed it was objective fact, merely that the terms aren't interchangable.

>>49182867
Except the fact that gender is obviously a subjective matter and has varying cultural values.

In traditional western society there are only two genders and they align with biological sex. This is not true for every culture and society on Earth.

Unless you're seriously discounting every non-western culture as objectively wrong, you have to accept the fact that gender is a subjective concept.

>>49182910
>If I don't believe it, it's not true

See >>49182909

Go ahead, prove that wearing pretty dresses is as inherently feminine as having a womb.

>>49181532
>>49181553
>>49181587
>>49181609
>>49181690
So, I'm not afraid to admit that I'm usually the most musically informed person in any circle of people im find myself in, yeah I'm a punk hipster.

And that is not punk. I don't know what that is, but if people call that punk they need some serious re-education.

What the fuck is wrong with people. I don't even mind vaporware because it's not trying to be something it's not. This "seapunk" shit is fucking enraging, thanks assholes for showing me some new anus of the universe to be sad about existing.

>>49182874
No one believed in this gender as a separate concept until about 100 years ago or so, and it came out of Marxist thinkers. You're a parrot repeating his 1984 lie.

>>49182929
You're the one trying to prove that human beings can have a gender, the burden is on you. I don't mind if you believe in it, just as I don't mind someone subscribing to a school or philosophy or a political ideology, I just don't share your view and don't acknowledge it as objectively true.

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Could you cunts at least try to keep your shitposting /tg/-related?

>>49182937
>Marx
>Gender
You're literally combining your boogiemen.

>>49182263
>But if a DM is acting out a dialogue between two NPCs, now that triggers the fuck out of me.
I admit, I do that. But, only because I don't want to make the world an Elder Scrolls experience to players.
It is usually an exchange of few lines at the time. Never heard any complaints from players about it.

>>49182873
>at least half that session
How the fuck do you even do half a session with GM only talking to himself?

>>49182952
2+2=5. Big Brother loves you.

>>49183020
Marx has nothing to say on gender.
You're the one rewriting history Winston.

>>49183051
>>49183020
>>49182952
Not either of you.

JUST STOP.

You're not going to convince each other of anything.

>>49182937
You're the idiot here just to be fair though

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>when the DM hosts the game and the players are having fun

>>49183051
>doesn't know the difference between Marx and the later scholars who figured out ways to demoralize people into accepting Marxism

>>49183071
It's a lie, but I have to say it for Big Brother to love me.

>>49183088
>Le cultural marxism boogiemen
Could you just go and jack off to Sargon or Undoomed? You'd have more fun.

>>49182951
Playing make believe and pretending to be something you are not is very /tg/.

>>49180420
Have you ever visited stormfront?

There are stupid people on 4chan but they are not THAT stupid

>>49173978
Clearly no one wants to play with you, OP

>>49177965
>worst voice your GM has ever done for an NPC?
As a DM, every time I try to emulate a British accent. All I can do well myself is Australian, Jamacian, and American South, and anything beyond that sounds like I'm having a stroke.

>>49181690
>Bullshit hipster music that claims to be deeper than it is. I'm pretty sure the entire genre, and all it's subgenres, are one giant practical joke that all the 'artists' who make it are in on.

So basically everything /mu/ is into?

>haha think anarcho-avant garde jazz is better than post-industrial classical softcore grunge

>>49182738
>It's an inherent and basic part of humanity and based on something other than feelings.

Sounds reasonable, as long as you stop directly linking gender and sex. Sex is biological and inherent, barring a select few individuals with rare disorders. Gender is your general self-image relative to a masculine and a feminine baseline (but even the baselines are strongly culturally defined and malleable).

Sex is physical and tangible. Gender exists between the ears, but is not inherently worthless or stupid.

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>>49178082
>just like on Critical Role!

>>49183071
>stop having a conversation!
>stop it!
Go fuck yourself.

>>49183419
Fuck off, your "conversation" is of no value, is sure as hell not contributing to the topic at hand, isn't /tg/-related, and is irritating to every single other person in the thread.

>>49183322
>>49173784

Long time RPG player here, never listened to critical roll. My friend keeps telling me to get into it. I like podcasts and such, and I have been missing playing tabletop since my job got more busy.

He showed me an episode (visually on youtube). I was kinda drunk and ready to leave his house, so I didn't pay much attention. But I remember thinking "wow, its really cringey watching other people play DnD, is my group that cringey?".

So is it worth doing? and if so, listen or watch is better.

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>>49182082
Funny, does it go the other way around too?

>>49182694
I'd like to see comedy horror.

Seriously, don't give up. I've read a Muppets/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover fanfic played deadly serious, and they pulled it off. You'll be okay.

>>49183303
Take that back to RPG.net. They care, we don't.

>>49178082
What's that? A safe enviroment that strives to bring contenbt that everyone can enjoy actually made you happy and gave you a nice experience? WHAT A REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT!
Trolling aside i'm happy for you.

>>49183303
Go back to sucking big black cocks and peddling your stupid made-up bullshit on tumblr you landwhale fuck. At least we here on /tg/ can seperate fantasy from reality.

>>49180549
damn you got issues

>>49183445
Not that guy, but I can't listen to a single episode of Critical Role. I don't find all D&D podcast junk cringey, but that shit? Yikes.

If you'd like an alternative suggestion, I'd recommend The Adventure Zone. It's super-loose with the rules (they're new-ish) and pretty silly, I love it.

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>>49180549
>>49183445
>running everything you consume through a "what would /tg/ think if they knew I watched this?" filter before you decide if you can allow yourself to enjoy it or not
Must be exhausting.

>>49183088
>using 1984 like this
You know what's real funny? When was the last time that a poor dude ever got into an important position in the Us government? The System shown in 1984 literally shows a rich upper caste dominating a lower caste through information control, but that's communsm, Orwell had a book about the perils of communism, It's called animal farm, fuck you.

>>49183893
>Asking for an opinion on something
>/tg/ filter
So you like... never read reviews? on anything? you never want to know what other people think about something before you invest time in it? Ever?

Must be exhausting.

I stopped trying to act like NPCs because I realized I sound like a faggot doing it.

Now I just describe the tone and what he says, like
>The Wizard sneers at you and snobbishly says
Or something to that effect.

>>49177717
Stop posting this in threads were it has no relevance. You're trying way too hard.

>>49177965
I can't fucking do female voices either. At least, I don't think I can. I try to adopt a higher register but I can never tell if it sounds good so I get self-conscious and stop. I don't know if my players have even noticed yet. It's driving me batshit because there's definitely something different about female voices but for some reason it's impossible to nail. Shouldn't this be easier than, say, regional accents, which I've never spent nay time around at all?

>>49177965
I can understand that. I've got a super deep voice, so female characters and kids are especially difficult for me.

>>49178082
OMG anon you're
J U S T
L I K E
S H E L D O N

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>being dm
>Speaking 2 dialects, where one is associated with rednecks, and the other one is rather cosmoploitian
>Also served for years and therefore also incorporate military jargon
>Making maps sometimes in korean just to fuck with the players
>Tfw my player love this babylonian shit

>>49181532
,>metalhead turning into a seapunk
Impossible. Go back to tumblr with that shit.

>>49178353
be a twat and give general summaries of what your character would say, while mocking others who are voicing their characters.

>>49181945
let him do JoJo campaigns

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>>49183934
That's not what I'm referring to, anon; it's the vague indictment of it being "cringey" that's so dumb to me. It's literally an objection to them having too much fun playing a TTRPG. Pretending to be elves and fighting monsters with magic is inherently going to be "cringey" by somebody's appraisal, no matter how you do it. I highly doubt anyone on the show is oblivious to their own "cringyness"; it's just that between being voice actors and functional adults, they're beyond giving a shit.

This kind of shit is how you end up with people like OP, who can't enjoy the work the DM and/or other players put into characterizing the world, because they spend the entire experience thinking about how someone, somewhere would make fun of them for it. It's sad and I hate it.

I only play with two people who don't have a theater background, so it's usually expected that everyone does a voice for their character. There's maybe two people who don't, and they're not even 18 so I don't expect them to.

>>49179739
Ofc it is.

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>>49173784
>Player had some life stuff that needed dealing with, so he left the group for a while
>Player was our face
>Player left during a run
>DM then proceeded to take over his character for the remainder of the the run
>Perfectly mimics the voice the player uses for his character
>Even got his mannerisms and sentence structure right
It was this day that I realized how much our DM was invested in our characters.

>>49184077
bazongo

>>49183445
Why would you give a shit about how cringey you look when rolling dice and roleplaying with your buddies ?

>>49174363
Sadly vidya made being a nerd cool so people play dnd like a tactical board game and think people who try to roleplay are faggots.


See every 4E player.

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>think my voice is deep and manly
>finally listen to a recording of my own voice
>it's high-pitched and whiney
>mfw trying to DM after realizing this
That's it, no more NPCs ever. Purgatory monster labyrnth world from now on.

>>49173784
I usually don't mind this.

But this GM I have right now, he's mostly great, but he always does about the exact same voice for every single character. Triad gangster? Sounds like a gangster from New York. New Zealander? Sounds like from the rougher parts of New York. Hatian who spent years in the Berlin Flux State and is trying his hardest to pretend to be an Indian salesman? Sounds like he can't hide his New York accent.

And no, this GM is not from New York.

>>49178353
You see, you're supposed to roll to persuade someone of something, star at the table for five minutes, look at the GM hopefully like he might tell him what his character should say, eventually get a player giving him ideas, and roughly paraphrase those ideas in a 'I'm describing what my character says' way. And then be pleased that you're doing such a good job as the party face.

>>49174363
>it doesn't get any nerdier

Will Wheaton and Matthew Mercer made role playing games cool to the normies, anon. LARP is the next big step down.

>>49181945
>player is playing a female PC for the first time, is big on acting in character as they talk
>pretend to adjust imaginary long hair - pulling a ponytail over their shoulder, tying up or letting hair down, stroking through it
>tends to laugh and smile more, far more upbeat than his male characters
>sometimes brings his arms together like he's trying to subtly squeeze a pair of imaginary breasts

It weirds me out sometimes because I think he honestly doesn't know much about girls outside of anime, but it honestly does help give a good sense of his character's personality far more than just lifelessly sitting there and speaking in your own voice.

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>>49182055
>try what Americans think is a stereotypical Irish accent to an Irish friend
>"Dude why the fuck do you sound Welsh"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIa1ZKO76Ho

>>49183303
So are you saying the tomboys I hold so dear are male in their gender? I'm gay, anon? Is that what I am?

You guys do roars and stuff for monsters? I can understand voice acting for intelligent creatures, but roaring like a terrasque just seems a little unnecessary. But hey, maybe people like that stuff.

>>49185096
>"Dude why the fuck do you sound Welsh

what the fuck are you talking about? "Topodamornin'toya!" pseudo accent doesn't sound anything like welsh. Welsh is basically an Indian accent.


>that vid

Oh. What the fuck

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>>49174363
>DnD
>borderline normie game
>doesn't get much nerdier

>>49185096
Oh sure ya canna be a welshman, they're all busy feckin the sheep sure
>>49185482
If you thought that was weird this is a pretty accurate depiction of irish speech
https://youtu.be/qNxXego2D8A

>>49186531
>https://youtu.be/qNxXego2D8A
I watched this twice the voices are so nice

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>>49173784

I really don't get the appeal of tabletop games and roleplaying.

>>49187807
Imagination and shit. If I cared about stats and shit, I'd be playing a videogame so I would't have to do math.

>>49187807

Yeah, I just come here for the quest threads.

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>when dm only gives you a +3 sword for christmas and you wanted a +5 sword

>>49181587
>biological sex =/= gender
>this is what people actually believe
Also, if you weren't such an idiot you would realize that people are born with genetalia that does not correspond to their chromosomes, however if a guy wakes up and wants to be the little girl so bad he gets his weiner chopped off, then theres a problem.
Way to be off-topic.
>>49173784
This is incredibly cringy, its best if they just summarize or say what the npc says as opposed to trying to make some ridiculous accent or impediment.

>>49188259
If you're playing Dungeons & Dragons and you're this worried about looking "cringy," you seriously need to reassess your priorities.

>>49178673
Maybe you just want to be a dragon.

>>49178673
As a player, I personally find female characters more fun to work with because I'm not hindered by perceptions of my own gender. A male acting cowardly would be scorned, a female acting cowardly could be consoled and considered cute. I can make female characters brash or ditzy or mopey or haughty and they can be waifus or just considered fun NPCs, where with male characters it is hard to find that level of variation because if they're not tough and stoic they're weaklings or have serious flaws.

I think the DM really needs like 3 voices:
>a "gruff" voice used for orcs/dwarves/goons/gnolls/henchmen
>a "fancy" voice used for elves/women/nobles/gods
>a a "normal" voice used for everything else

Oh you think that's bad?

My DM is a translator for the US State Department. If we run into NPCs that don't speak the party's language, he'll randomly pick one of the 14 or so languages he can speak and start speaking in that tongue.

For example, he can speak Cantonese. The person playing the only elf in the party also speaks Cantonese, so any NPC dialogue coming from elves actually has to be translated to the rest of the party by the elf.

>>49174062
>Players act like they're actually their characters.
I lose my shit every god damn time.

>>49173784
That is okay.

There is nothing wrong with this.

>>49173784
>>when the DM starts to voiceact NPCs

I enjoy this part of the story.

Suck my ass.

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>>49173978
not an argument

>>49173784
>when OP sucks dick
somewh40kheresymeme.jpeg

>>49189146
10/10 would play with

that sounds amazing

>>49181462
>he plays ttrpg's for the roleplay

I hate playing with people like you

>>49182055
When speaking in common, speak in character. When speaking other languages, relay what your character says in narration, IE "In elvish, he reminds the ranger that it's not gay if it's an elf".