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Beginner Roleplaying Tips in D&D
Honestly, I strongly advise against that American obsession with "doing voices". TTRPGs are not LARPs or improv theatre. You don't need to dress up or make weird voices or play out your character's tics on the table because it will get annoying or old fast.
More important than your voice: say where you are, say what you do, and say what you say. Roleplaying is sooo far beyond the social interactions between characters. Its everything else too.
One thing I can say is try an accent. Even if it ends up being a bit shit it's still something that makes your character speak distinctly.
I can recommend: Evil/fancy British, cockney British, Irish, pirate, New Yorker, Bostanian.
And if you're feeling adventurous: Scouse British, Scottish, or Welsh
I also like the voice idea of imagining why your character looks like, and moving your body to try and resemble their shape. Like puffing out our chest and neck for a big dude, or compresing and talking closer to your nose for a halfling.
There's a reason I stopped playing a Sorcerer… my IRL Cha was too low and I was struggling with that.
due to some past trauma, my artificer has made a habit of not showing his face
but his eyes are visible past it all, so all his expressions are in his eyes
I have to remind myself of that sometimes, but it is SO much fun
One time i was giving details about how my character was waking and and getting ready for a day and my everyone at the table started saying that that information isnt important and "why are you telling us this" the DM proceeded to say "he's roleplaying in the roleplaying game, ever thought of it?" Its now become a running joke and ended with me gaining inspiration
I have a tortle character named tortle based off of the turtle club scene from master of disguise! I do my best to talk like him too lol!
Just saying man you were already my favorite youtuber but the use of master of disguise my all time favorite movie i dont even know what to think anymore
Hey cinder, this is good advice but it's more for making voices than roleplaying. Do you have any advice on how to act as your character?
I have a character to how he talks is just grunts because what we see of the characters inspiration doesn't really talk
I do a consistently bad southern drawl for my rootin' tootin' cowboy ranger, that counts… right?
I've luckily been good at voices for a while, but one thing that helps is don't feel like you have to do the exact voice you start with the whole time. You can make adjustments, just don't completely switch voices mid campaign. Little tweaks here and there until you land on the right voice. Your character will change over time and you'll get to know your character as you play them, so it makes sense that their voice would change a bit as they develop.
My current character started off as a mix between Spanish and Chinese, but as I've played he's gained more Spanish and Mexican and less Chinese, it just fit him more as I played him and got to know who he actually was and as things in game happened to him.
Just always remember that unless you try extremely hard, the characters you come up with won't ever be the same as who you play. Your party and the world you're in will effect your characters in ways that you won't know from the beginning, so never be afraid of tweaking your voice and even your character as a whole.
There are some "voice" that are just YOU, but with a specific emotion/moment in time. Think of yourself having to work TEN HOURS at the DMV with a constant line of people with only 2 hours of sleep in you.
That version of you is tired, talking slowly, probably has either little patience or is just ignoring half of everything because they're too tired to comprehend things. There, that's a voice!
Last time i did voices i was reading out the scene where the Kahn quipped at thr Phonecian.
Turns out adding subtle accents are amazing
My best character voice is my current thri kreen, who is telepathic and its telepathy is very Star Trek TNG Data in tone, and uses extremely limited pronouns vs descriptors used in their place (this one instead I, loud one to refer to the barbarian)
AM I NOT TURTLEY ENOUGH FOR THE TURTLE CLUB?!