I can do two accents pretty well.  Japanese and Swedish.  I've found that I have a decent ability to mimic the mannerisms and speech habits of people I spend a lot of time around.  I spent four years in Japan when I was younger, and I had a friend who was an exchange student from Sweden.  Both rubbed off on me a bit and it comes in handy sometimes.

I did a japanese accent for a CoC game and the players thought it was pretty awesome how I managed to pull it off without sounding like a bad hollywood stereotype.

Oh I can't possibly resist this-please post video Jack. All the video we can get.

Quote from: JackalopeAnd where the fuck do you get off calling me a troll...

Um...

Quote from: Jackalopewith your boyfriend

Yep, that's where they get off calling you a troll.

Quote from: Idinsinuation;257362How can you even begin to back this up?  Do you play in his games?

No, a few months back that last time Engine called my game "Diablo II" -- which is an insult totally rooted in his swinish Mark Rein-Hagen influenced concept of what "Tru Gaming" is -- he admitted that the reason he was able to give every single NPC in his game a detailed background was that he had months to prepare between sessions.  I have two weeks.

Which is why the vast majority of the NPCs in my campaign have no personal background.  Like the 6 Troglodyte Warrior 2s my players fought last Tuesday.  None of them had names or backgrounds.  Which was good, because 4 of them existed in my campaign for about an half hour of real time, or 30 seconds game time.   Two of them survive the battle because they surrendered.  The players interrogated them, and then let them flee and join up with the group of females and children the players had exiled in the previous session.  They're only really interested in Benthroc, the half-dragon leader of the Trog tribe.

I didn't need backgrounds for the two surviving trogs either.  They were cowed, servile, and willing to say or do anything to survive.  The players didn't even ask them their names (which I would have made up on the spot).  They just asked them about Benthroc, about his lair, his reinforcements, his plans.

Now, I could have done the whole thing as "role playing" in the sense of "doing character voices and speaking only in character", but I had already established that the Trogs speak Draconic only, and have rough, reptilian voices.  And delivering the sort of long, detailed answers my players -- who are just like every other group of D&D players I've ever gamed with -- in that voice would have positively killed my throat, and likely garbled the information and lead to much repetition.  So instead I spoke directly to the player who speaks Draconic, and told him that the trogs language was simplistic and primitive, but he thought it was saying something to the effect of blah blah blah, and then he turned to the other players, and they discussed it in character.  And they left me out of it, because I'm pretty upfront about my "role-playing" expectations: if players want to do a lot of in-character banter, they should generally engage with each other, and not me, and that I won't role-play trivial encounters with trivial background characters.   I've never had a player complain about my preferences or ever had anyone leave the game over it (in fact I've only had one player ever leave a D&D campaign I was running because of how I DM, and that was a totally unrelated issue).

QuoteWow, you described a major part of the hobby (for some people) and called it tripe.  What did you expect would happen?

In-character first person interactions with trivial NPCs is not actually a major part of the hobby anymore than power-gaming and munchkinism is.

Quote from: Serious Paul;257399Oh I can't possibly resist this-please post video Jack. All the video we can get.

And you'll post video as well?

Or are you saying that you want me to put up evidence, and then just take it on faith that you aren't completely full of shit?

Quote from: Idinsinuation;257400Um...


Yep, that's where they get off calling you a troll.

Dude, have you not noticed how anytime one of them gets into it, the other immediately shows up?  They're fucking attached at the hip.  Getting into an argument with either of them always turns into an argument with both of them.  It's like arguing with half of a couple -- you end up arguing with both of them, as they mindlessly leap to each other's defense.  And since Serious Paul is far more passive-aggressive and faggy than Engine, he's the girl.

I seriously think they live together and just sit around rping their masturbatory fantasies with each other.

Quote from: Idinsinuation;257397I did a japanese accent for a CoC game and the players thought it was pretty awesome how I managed to pull it off without sounding like a bad hollywood stereotype.

Melly Clissmas, Mistah Lawlence.

Quote from: Jackalope;257408In-character first person interactions with trivial NPCs is not actually a major part of the hobby anymore than power-gaming and munchkinism is.

I'm starting to wonder what's left in the hobby these days.

Quote from: droog;257414I'm starting to wonder what's left in the hobby these days.

Tell us about the old days, grandpa, the all or nothing days, where men were gamers and gamers...uh...didn't play Blue Rose ?

Regards,
David R

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....

Quote from: Jackalope;257396Have you forgotten that he has admitted that you guys only play every few months, and have no regular campaign?

Uh, no. I GM every few months, but Paul GMs every week or so.

Quote from: Jackalope;257396That you've been playing with the same group of guys for twenty years?

Uh, no. Paul and I didn't meet until 1989, and none of our players from that time are still with us. Most of our group has been with us for 10 or so years, but we add new players pretty regularly.

Quote from: Jackalope;257396That you don't go to cons, that you don't interact with other gamers outside this board, and that between the two of you you have the collective experience gaming that I had at age 14?

I've been to GenCon twice, we're both members of several other roleplaying forums - Dumpshock and Animalball in my case, several others in Paul's - and you simply couldn't have the gaming experience at 14 that we have now, because we started playing more than 14 years ago, and ran twice-weekly games for several of those years.

Jack, you're talking directly out of your ass. You're misunderstanding and misremembering fragments of discussions from months ago and trying to establish some kind of gaming superiority based on apocrypha. I guess I don't mind, since no one here takes you seriously, but maybe you should consider asking some questions instead of just providing unsubstantiated and incorrect information.

Quote from: Engine;257493Jack, you're talking directly out of your ass. You're misunderstanding and misremembering fragments of discussions from months ago and trying to establish some kind of gaming superiority based on apocrypha. I guess I don't mind, since no one here takes you seriously, but maybe you should consider asking some questions instead of just providing unsubstantiated and incorrect information.

Tell it to your boyfriend, pudfucker.

A stunning riposte! Certainly proves the correctness of your assertions. I am slain on the point of your rapier wit!