Urtog Fight-Good (or, why D&D voices are sometimes a pain)

[alanajoli]

So, I got to play one of my favorite D&D characters today--a character who made a debut in 3.5 but never got to go much of anywhere. His name is Urtog Fight-Good, and he's seen more life outside of D&D than any of my other characters, simply because his shtick is so fun. I've probably introduced more students to D&D during the Ireland trip and the

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[smerwin29]

I have a friend who had to stop playing a PC because doing the voice gave him a migraine the next day. Now that's HARDCORE! I try to make all my PCs (and NPCs) with relatively quiet voice to save my vocal chords. My newest NPC talks like Clint Eastwood ala Dirty Harry, through clenched teeth.

[alanajoli]

Quiet voices are definitely the *wise* choice (although any time I run giants, ogres, trolls, etc... well, it's just too tempting to do the loud scratchy voice!). For my Star Wars PC, when I eventually get to play her, I'm going to try to combine Han Solo's Correlian vernacular with some of the slang from Firefly and see how that goes over.

You also realize that if you do make it to Anonycon now, I'm going to ask to hear your Dirty Harry impression... ;)

[orryn_emrys]

I just moved to Wichita a couple years ago and adopted a new D&D group at that point. They were all experienced players, three of them old-school, but they were kinda wooden. I brought one player with me who, like me, uses different voices for each character. After being exposed to that, as well as my multi-voiced NPCs with a variety of accents, now it seems that nearly everyone in my group has adopted the practice.

*grins* I'm kinda proud of them.

Incidentally, none of them seem to think my hot tea habit is overly strange anymore...

[alanajoli]

Hee hee! Way to bring light to the old schoolers! :)

[anonymous]

Roughing up the vocal chords is an acceptable sacrifice for the good of the game. :D

Half-Orc's are way fun so it doesn't surprise me that people would be interested in your character. Mine wanted to take over the world in FR. :P

I do hope your vocal chords heal up, if nothing else for the next session!

-Albone

[alanajoli]

Oh, I'm right as rain now. I have about a day and a half recovery time (which is good to be aware of: never play Urtog before having to give a speech or concert!). ;)