EASY voice acting tips for your TTRPG character

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Lunch Break Heroes

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@brianbays867 10 ай бұрын

Matthew Colville said "the best way to practice new voices is on your daily drive. So if you live close to work, move."

@Master_WannaBe_ 2 ай бұрын

Literally how I practiced the voice for my party’s BBEG.

@minimoose7890 Жыл бұрын

No one knows you aren't on a Bluetooth call while you're practicing your voices and lines.

@MrShazaamable 6 ай бұрын

Omg yes

@trishapellis Жыл бұрын

Another thing I like to use is idiolect: the specific words a person is more likely to use. Like that one bit character in an Agatha Christie novel whose main recognizable character trait is her frequent use of the word 'subtle', every person has their own ways of putting words together and has certain words that they like to use. This can be shoehorning a particular word into your speech as often as possible like the aforementioned character, or using a lesser-used word instead of the more-used one like 'delectable' instead of 'delicious', or ending sentences in a particular way, like "y'know?" or a trailing "so..." (e.g. "I baked you a birthday cake, so..." when they really don't have anything more to say). Some of us swear more than others, and we don't all use the same swear words.

@O4C209 Жыл бұрын

I'll kind of write a little bit of dialog for the character to represent what word selection they will use when speaking.

@trishapellis Жыл бұрын

For my first time DM'ing, I basically wrote a story of the stuff that was happening behind the scenes where the PCs didn't know, developing the voices of Strahd and the other characters living in Castle Ravenloft.

@LaughingBearGames 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for all the tips on getting ready to voice act for TTRPG. I really enjoy voice acting the NPCs at my tables and know my players enjoy it as well as it helps them get them in the mind of their character.

@handyman7119 Жыл бұрын

I get to practice my voices at work. Thankfully, I'm a mail carrier, and most people already think I'm nuts.

@whelp1382 6 ай бұрын

Lol. I can just imagine how fun this encounter would be to some random customer

@RubyCallicoat Жыл бұрын

My friend suggested modeling character personalities and voices after movie characters you like.

@andrewdonadio1485 11 ай бұрын

That's what I'm doing in my campaigns.

@Kyphura 11 ай бұрын

You sound so similar to Matt Mercer it's wild. Good advice!

@QualityChaos99 3 ай бұрын

“Your entire family speaks in a different pitch” Yea Mother Nature must’ve been uncreative the day of my birth and just copy pasted my sister to make me💀

@jordanmcneely95 5 ай бұрын

For goblin voices, I try and replicate that bit from the Korn song where he’s basically skatting like in jazz, but with a metal ‘push’ to it from the arytenoids

@JasonV_DM 2 ай бұрын

Still the best TTRPG how to do voices guide 👍

@wanderdragon1075 Жыл бұрын

My girlfriend and I were at the park one day and saw someone acting a little weird. We assumed they were practicing for a play. Turns out, she was on drugs

@LunchBreakHeroes Жыл бұрын

I like the way you think though.

@wanderdragon1075 Жыл бұрын

@@LunchBreakHeroes because we assumed play? We were both drama kids in highschool, so it comes to mind for us

@trishapellis Жыл бұрын

The 'talking to yourself' thing is really not something to do in public 😅 I will have conversations with characters sometimes (me pretending to be one character talking to another character). One time I was doing that on a bus - nothing better to do with that time - and the guy next to me legitimately asked me if I was alright. I told him I was practicing something and he left me alone, but I shut up for the rest of that ride and now I don't dare do that anymore. So I write down those conversations instead, on my phone. Doesn't allow me to practice a voice but at least it allows me to pin down the person's idiolect (their personal way of using words) and the things they would focus on (typical example: hit a person on a bike with your car, do you focus on the damage to the person or the car).

@luckybear4996 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this!! One thing I would love to mention is to please stay critical while watching Split. While being fantastic at showing voice acting tips, it's a really horrible movie that has caused a lot of discrimination and pain for the DID community. I would alternatively highly recommend the Jumanji series. On both an audio and visual level, not to give spoilers, but outside of the whole "playing a movie character who's inside a video game character" there are scenes in the sequel in which movie characters A & B are in video game characters A & B and then they swap, and the only way to tell who is inside which video game character is based on their mannerisms and quirks of speech, involving both gender and personality differences. it's really fascinating!!!!

@mikitanas 4 ай бұрын

i was looking for a comment about this, thank you

@maxmusterspace6037 Жыл бұрын

Keeping track of NPCs and their goals and stuff is my bane. I can do so for maybe two or three. But then - man it just goes downhill from there.

@trishapellis Жыл бұрын

What helps for me is writing them down. Either on flash cards or in an electronic document, just write down the main points to remember about each character: Their ideals, bonds and flaws, and their main motivations. Most document editors (Word, LibreOffice) have a navigation pane on the side so if you make every character name a heading at the same level, you'll be able to easily search for characters in that navigation pane, or even group them by location, affiliation or what have you.

@MystraRavenwind Жыл бұрын

I sometimes practice accents in voice chats online.

@Souchirouu Ай бұрын

I do like that with so many using earbuds for calls these days talking to yourself has been normalized!

@Ghv5t 10 ай бұрын

My voice has no range 😆 But in all seriousness this has really helped me change the way I voice my NPCs to better immerse my players

@maxwellwhite5762 Жыл бұрын

I love your vids man, so much great content

@LunchBreakHeroes Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

@ElijahBerg0011 5 ай бұрын

I hate the notion that talking to yourself is crazy. Especially since talking to yourself actually is healthy and largely beneficial. Edit: Not talking to yourself in a multi-personality disorder kind of way but more like an, “ahh i better run before the store closes.” Type of way.