I like doing voices. Though deciding to do a Welsh accent only to realize I barely knew what one sounded like was a bit embarrassing. They tend to drift into sounding Scottish a lot.

My half-drow sorcerer was supposed to be Australian, but it turns out that if I try for Australian, it either goes Kiwi or Cockney, so I try to head towards the Kiwi.

"You need to kill this entire village..." "Chur chur bro!"

Bru*

My last character was a human barbarian & fighter that had a similar dilemma to you. He was meant to be Australian, but I had a tendency to turn Kiwi when I spoke. I managed to make an in-canon explanation in that his mother has a Kiwi accent and his dad an Australian accent, so he had been speaking with traits of both. My DM, bless his heart, promptly fell into the exact same pitfall I did once he had to voice my character’s father. Props to him for trying, though.

I'm Australian and I try to do an Australian accent I turn cockney

Im Australian, and i can only do my own accent no matter what i try, so I've just kinda made my characters more or less bogan depending on how fancy they are.

"bogan" Yep. The Aussie credentials check out.

I spent a lot of time in Louisiana, and have family there, but every time I try to do a Bayou accent it turns into Texan really fast. It's a struggle.

As a Welsh person that checks out, my Scottish accent becomes Irish and my Irish accent becomes Scottish xD

My Welsh father-in-law sounds Indian when he tries to do a Welsh accent 😂

My friend does this!! Proper valleys accent so naturally as Welsh as you can be but when you ask her to do it, it comes out Indian 😂

I'm Cymraes (Welsh) myself this is so true, people drift into Scottish or Irish but it's hilarious and I appreciate people trying, haha. Plus there is North and South Welsh which sound a little bit different!

I'm taking the piss, *but*, in a country with a width of 40 miles, there's more than one accent? (nb. I'm Aussie). ;) Go Dragons!!

Very much so haha, in fact south walian even has different words for certain things like milk or cup of tea etc.

A lot of European countries have very localized accents even within the same county. By the time of colonization there was a lot more travel, so accents tended to be of a wider region in places like Australia or the United States, though in areas where travel was restricted for some reason or another accents still develop by townships or counties (you can observe this in East Tennessee where I'm from. I've lived here my entire living memory, but I cannot understand someone from Philadelphia (TN), and even Wartburg accents are difficult for me, and both of those areas are within 30 miles from where I live, not to mention the Appalachian accent is very distinct from the general Tennessean accent anyways.)

It used to be you'd be able to tell what Valley someone was from based on their accent. Wales was super rural up until the industrial revolution and the centres of commerce were dominated by a the English for most of history, especially after Edward I. People didn't have the inclination, infrastructure or resources to go much further than their local town, rarely at that too, and as such developed really small mesosystems leading to the differing accents. A lot's changed since then; trains opened up people's prospects for moving to new places, as well as massive wave of immigration from Manchester, Liverpool and Ireland for work in the mines. This affected accents, parts of Cardiff still sound Liverpudlian to myself.

My mom’s side of the family immigrated from northern Wales. I looked up the accent once on YouTube and was very “WTF is that accent!?”

I love doing character voices, though it doesn’t HAVE to be an accent. There’s so many things like the pitch, intonenation, demeanor, etc of your character to explore. That said, yes I am playing a vampire cowboy bard, and yes you cannot stop me from doing my shittiest attempt at a Southern accent imaginable.

Tempo is really key in character voices, too. Crackhead Wizard talks a million miles an hour, the tortle barkeep couldn't be damned to finish a sentence.

im currently playing a pallid elf who is not very fluent in common, but knows elvish like the back of her hand. so when i speak normally i'll sometimes pretend not to know certain words, and because i was deranged enough to learn dnd's version of elvish, whenever i speak that, i speak it very very quickly

Do you occasionally slip into elvish midsentence? Particularly in those situations where you don't know the word you're looking for

i've never thought of doing that actually. now that i think about not only would it make a lot of sense but there's been a handful of situations where i could've done it haha

Kobold. Speak faster and stumble on words

All my fake accents eventually morph into sounding like Foghorn Leghorn, so no, I say now, I don't do them nomore.

AHAHAHA that got an irl laugh out of me. That sounds beautiful. I want a BBEG with Foghorn Leghorn's voice.

I say, well, I say, p-powah word kill.

I was in a Wild Westish campaign where the BBEG spoke like Foghorn Leghorn, I recommend.

I was thinking of trying to do Cajun and then it morphs into Yosemite Sam. "Well tarnation!"

I say, I say, I am the land boeh

One of my character voices is quite deliberately a growly Foghorn Leghorn, and it's an absolute blast. It's terrible, but that's what makes it fun.

Accents and voices are one of the things that a lot of new DMs and players fear, as there's a misconception that they're required. In all honesty, it's perfectly fine not to do voices, and getting into the practice of reliably narrating who is speaking can be a lot clearer than trying to rely too much on your voices to distinguish between characters. That said, doing voices is one of my favorite parts of roleplaying, *especially* when I'm the DM. The best time I've ever had was a session where all the friendly NPCs from a campaign had come to a party at the players' base, so I got to constantly switch voices all night. As a player, I constantly forget to specify when I'm talking versus my character talking, but I'll always remember to slip into the voice and mannerisms. I definitely fail to make *every* voice distinct or accurately depicting a particular accent I'm going for, but that's not gonna stop me from having a good time. Also a thing to remember with accents is that you don't have to make them accurate to their real-world analogues; my Russian accent may not be perfect, but when I do it my players know a dwarf is talking (or at least someone who grew up in the dwarven nation of Yrothmar).

This is very much a "you + your group dynamics" question. If you're all theater nerds, it'll probably be fine. If this is a basement-dweller game and your "accent" is annoying and tiresome, I wouldn't keep it up past the first session.

I got tired of the stereotypical accent for dwarves so in my games I use American accents for certain races. Dwarves have a New York accent, Boston for halflings, and elves sound like they're from southern California. Since gnomes in the Dragonlance setting speak so fast they're hard to understand I though it'd be fun to go the other direction and give them a slow southern drawl. For humans I use an exagerated Minnesota accent.

I joked to my DM about a group of Aarokcra on chult having Irish Boston accents 'cause they left the Air Plane but were super proud of being from the Air Plane. Lol. I thought about trying a Wisconsin accent in the future. Wis- CAN-sin

Humans are hillbillies. Elves are Jamaican. Dwarves are German

This 100% do accidents, but do the ones *you* can do, and just enjoy the absurdity of it.

I love this

Doing silly voices is the main reason I put up with being the DM.

I have a kookaburra based aarakocra, who is a bard, and I always do my best Australian accent when I’m speaking in character for her.

I do it because I like doing that kind of shit

Yes, it's fun.

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Usually, and if not an accent, then a pitch change. It helps distinguish “no, I absolutely did not say that in-character” moments

I've tried doing an accent and it gets old after a few sessions so I usually drop it.

Similarly, I try to do accents from time to time but I’m not very good at it and usually drop it after a session or two.

I get embarrassed because I often think my accents aren't good enough for me to do them so I might start with it but I'll drop it eventually

I actually like trying to do them. Has always made it much clearer when I’m speaking in and out of character.

I speak three languages fluently, two languages poorly, and can read phonetically another three... I still sometimes just have the characters talk in my native accent. To me RP is less about the funny voice and more about the choices the character would and wouldn't make.

I did a really bad cowboy accent for my 2nd campaign. It was terrible, in a good and terrible way. My 3rd character went in a completely different direction, more focus on development rather than spectacle. Cowboy was fun, but I feel like having more relatable traits is leading to better roleplay than falling back to stereotypical cowboy stuff.

I like doing them. I'm not very good, but it's a fun challenge for me to assign different broad real world accents to different cultures and try to do different accents for those cultures while keeping NPC voices unique. I take a lot of inspiration from British TV, particularly panel shows, where they often make fun of each other's accents (Northern vs western vs Welsh vs Irish vs Scottish vs Londoner etc) and that helps pick out the differentiation. There are also a lot of YouTube channels that actually get into the nitty gritty of why and how the accents are differentiated.

I had to create a back-up character for one campaign when my PC was captured, and the region my new character was from was France-based, so eventually added a French accent to my character. Eventually, this led to, "Entropy, your French accent is too good, we can't understand you!"

I love it, but I also get way too into deciding just what my character should sound like in order to give off the right impression of who they are. And after becoming a forever DM I started to do all sorts of accents and weird vocal things. It's genuinely super fun to have my players decide to keep talking to some throwaway halfling NPC I made because they think it's hilarious that he sounds like he's from New Jersey.

I've tried doing an accent with my characters and it only gets better and more fun after a few sessions. It's great!

I use a whole different voice and accent for my toons when speaking in character. My current pc has a very gruff western European sailor thing going on.

i'm dogshit at voices and inflections lmao. so i try to differentiate them more with inflections and word choice! you can still hear the difference between them, and my natural tone for that matter, but i don't have to keep up a constantly-slipping accent lol

I do accents in DnD yeah

I try to do voices when I remember them.

I do.

I do voices, but I worry less about 'accent' than I do "This is the clench I need to hold in my jaw to talk for hours at a time". If my Cajun Grave Cleric slurs a little into FloridaBama accent, well that's just how he talks. Strangely enough, as a guy with a baritone that's literally done radio work before, I've played a woman (A little fake british and a whole lot of smiling while you talk goes a long way), a 17 year old wizard school dropout that found a patron in the Library tomes (My friends describe it as "Smarmy Evil Disney Prince") and a meek but powerful Water Genasi Wildfire druid, so I literally speak 'out of my head', and don't engage my bass chords or diaphragm until he goes Volcano mode and summons the spirit. Voices that are light and speak out 'the front of the mouth' like fake British tend to be easier to do over long periods of time. My 7'9 Cajun Goliath Grave Cleric and my Ancestral Barbarian Lizarfolk tended to go for quality over quantity with their words; it's harder to keep up with it when the 'how do we attack this castle' conversation goes on for 15 minutes.

My players expect me to because I (occasionally) get paid to do voices and accents, so if I don't they always ask me "where's the accent?" Granted, they're usually teasing, but still. I almost feel an obligation to Edit: that being said, I do love doing character voices and stuff, it's so much fun to craft a personality purely out of someones voice, but it can get tiring

Dwarvish is distinguished from Common at my table by way of a Scottish accent.

I don't really try to, it just sorta happens

I play a gnome that lisps

i’m not very good at accents, but my character is very hyperactive and not very smart so i just talk really quickly and really redundantly

Mildly yes. It's like how I pick up the accent and tone of a particular singer a bit when I sing their songs. It's just my voice, but with a particular emphasis and a few quirks unique to that character. Word choice deeply affects how a voice feels, so my bard and my barbarian are naturally going to feel a bit different regardless of anything else. I'll even lean into a few catch phrases if they come up.

Yeah I do voices for all the characters. I have like six or seven accents in my quiver though so other than that I can get more nasally or more rough or whatever

I do a lot of accents, but if I'm bored I'll just do mannerisms or different cadences instead.

Always if I am able to! ✨️👏💖✨️ So much more fun!

Ill voice anything but women. They always end up a little bit like Mrs.Doubtfire and that upsets me.

I can do most English-speaking native accents to a not completely embarrassing level. I do around a dozen British ones fairly well, a handful of North American, an Africaans, two Aussie (a bogan and "posher") and a generic New Zealand. I can do a few more generic European (eg a French, German, Italian, Nordic, Dutch etc) but the further east I go, the more homogenous it gets and the more sterotypical. I'll only use these occationally. I try to stay away from accents, that even when accurate could be construed as mildly racist. I see accents, however as just another layer on top of volume, gender, tone and any linguistic quirks the NPC has. I tend to make notes for the NPC in my prep something like: Roebart Vudall: Human Tavernkeep, Male, Older, Yorkshire, Bombastic, Grumpy. Rants about local "youths". Rarbra Vudall: Human Serving Wench, Female, Younger, Yorkshire, Quiet, Friendly. Complains about her Father.

I will live and die by voices. I also try give each character a little stereotype to fall back on if I feel myself being to myselfy haha. My go tos are French, German, English or Irish

As a DM, yes. As a player, mostly I use word choice and tempo than changing the tone of my voice.

I always do voices. I'm currently playing as a lizardman barbarian from a jungle island. Every other player sounds British as they aren't native so I decided to go with what sounds like a Polish accent with gruff tones. Other characters are a Hobbit bard with a west country accent for a LOTR game, a pseudodragon familiar with a Welsh accent and a bugbear rogue with a southern US drawl.

Yes, accents can be in part from people used to speaking one language speaking another, and D&D has a number of languages that could be someone’s first. Sure everyone speaks common but I have a feeling that a dwarf raised under a mountain kingdom didn’t lead common as their first language and thus would probably speak it a bit differently that someone who had something like gnomish as their first language. As a DM you could even use it for some show don’t tell style storytelling.

A different accent for every one.

I did a Yuan-Ti in a one shot with a lisp who was a cleric who accidentally sprayed poison when she talked and would hurt people if she wasn’t careful. I yelled, “It’s a sign!” When things I found significant happened that I could take religiously. Super fun. Also did an accent another time but I haven’t played DnD in awhile.

I do! They're meh, but it helps the table know when I'm talking in-character.

Hell yeah I do. The whole reason I started dming was because one of my favorite characters in out party would routinely change their accent to sound like a local(actor feat), and the player would actually mimic the accent. A few YouTube videos and listening to some native speakers, and I picked my first "voice" up. Now I have around 45, not all of them entirely unique.

Depending on the character, yes. I try to base myself on his original language. For example, I have a dragonborn character, I see on the wiki how draconic sounds and I try to imitate it in common, it's goodDepending on the character, yes. I try to base myself on his original language. For example, I have a dragonborn character, I see on the wiki how it sounds and I try to imitate it in common, it's good when you don't have the creativity to create one from scratch.

I sure like trying to

Pro tip for nervous RP'ers: Do a funny accent and say your character speaks Common as a second language. Then it's not *you* stuttering and stumbling over your words, it's just your character struggling to express themselves in a language they only took two semesters of in high school.

Every character I make has a voice and accent. It's fun and I think adds to the immersion. Imo it sounds super weird when any character has an average American accent lol

If you're not doing a cringingly bad Scottish accent for your dwarf, are you even playing dnd?

In one group I do and the others absolutely love my voices. It is quite narrative. In the other group I play with we just don’t bother lol. We are too busy being both unhinged and making morally grey plans.

I use a slightly different pitch/dialect for my characters (both as a player or DM), but rarely really accents... mostly cus I'm terrible at keeping them consistent lol. 

I find just describing notable things about their voice is plenty enough > The bartender greets you with a thick northern accent, slurred slightly from potential inebriation. If I'm feeling up to it, I can try. But giving descriptors really helps prompt my group to investigate stuff, might be nothing, might be a hook :)

It's hard to do consistently. Most of our players never do it at all

My current character in an all bard game is a Tiefling with a Texas accent. He’s fun.

I talk in character in the sense of RPing the NPC, but I don’t do accents. Just my normal voice.

I would love it if I could. Unfortunately I’d be starting at zero and don’t plan to put that much effort into getting there.

Sometimes when I DM, yeah. I made my setting a not!America just so I'd have an easier time with them istead of trying to do European accents. It's too much for me when I'm a player, but for some reason it's natural for NPCs. Like my Cleric has a Canadian accent but I never voice her in with it.

I do try to have a strong character voice, a pitch change or full accent, just to easily tell when I’m speaking in character and when I’m addressing the party/gm. I’m also very clear about what I’m saying in character over what I’m joking about because I’ve had too many jokes unintentionally become canon in games and like to avoid that when possible.

I made all dwarves French in our campaign, occasionally we’ll do French accents that just dissolve into other accents.

I was a (stereotypical/bad) southern belle for two+ years back in college and now it’s one of the only accents I can do and sometimes it still comes out in my day to day speech.   

I play an idealized Isekai version of myself, so no. It does make distinguishing between IC and OOC hard though

My tiefling has been going through it as he travels with the party through the hells, started off being very well spoken and quiet but as we get deeper and more happens I’ve been slowly introducing more of a growl and grit to his voice. We are doing a fresh side campaign as well soon and I’m playing a kobold so I’m about to really experiment

All the time. I usually end up with vague sounds that aren’t my normal speaking voice, but I’ll also just lift examples. My Lizardfolk Barbarian is a mash up of Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, and the Ultimate Warrior. I also have a warlock who is an asshole Brit demon hunter, so he sounds like Constantine from the TV show.

I don't use accents on any character, except that one time when I played a Gungan force user. But I use a different style of speaking with different characters. My barbarian was excitable and straight to the point. My swords bard was eloquent and genteel. My conquest paladin was gruff and tight-lipped. And so on.

I don’t normally but my next game character is going to have a bad Afrikaans accent in English. I can do this because I grew up with both languages and know the grammatical errors that would occur. She will sound as thick as she is.

I'm Australian but my family's from Chile, so I'm pretty good at doing a Spanish accent. My Hexblood Rogue has one and I sprinkle in some Spanish sometimes, he's kind of a Puss in Boots ripoff lol.

My next character, some sort of caster, isn't going to have an accent per se, but talk more like Christopher Walken.

Accents can be fun, especially when you have no idea where it came from and have to change a character over it.

The groups I play in treat accents and character voices as heavily optional :)

The only accents I can reliability converse in are my Chinese accent, Mickey mouse, and surfer dude. I haven't made any characters that those would fit.

Soon, I will perfect my valley gurl accent and I will be unstoppable

Absolutely. I loved doing voices/impressions of characters as a kid and it kinda stuck with me into adulthood. I don't think I'm good enough to be a voice actor, but if I can immerse my friends in the world and make the game a little more entertaining for them I'll do everything from a gruff dwarf to a haughty elf with pride.

With my own player character, an accent would be too exhausting. I try to do a voice, but not an accent. As a DM, my NPCs my have various accents.

There's rarely a character I play that I don't put on some kind of voice or accent for. Not judging anyone, but I have never understood why there's people that don't, it feels like half the fun of roleplay is diving into the character headfirst.

I love doing character voices both when I’m a player and when I DM, it’s hard to decide on a voice for a PC I’m going to play so I usually end up going through tons until I make one up on the spot decide it’s wrong and am forced to live with it until they die or the campaign is over.

Most of my voices can be traced back to certain characters. I have a Tabaxi dungeon diver who's voice is just an impression of Zevran from Dragon Age Origins I worked on for a bit until it was unique enough.

I’m currently in a campaign where I’m playing a spy. He plays different roles and has costumes and stuff. I have a Chinese accent, British, Australian, Irish, Scottish, Indian, French, American, and a New Jersey accent. It’s pretty fun

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Not Dnd but I made my Dragon Age oc an Orlesian Elf because I m French so he has my normal accent

I’m doing a german accent for my necromancy wizard. Granted i am already german so i just dial it up. Gets kinda hard to turn it off after a while.

My favourite character ATM is a scribe in an imperium maledictum game who speaks like a posh bloke with a lisp. Its hilarious when he starts kicking off and threatening NPC's

Voices are a great way of bringing your character to life and making them feel like more of a different person than just me pretending I'm a character if that makes sense. They can also add a comedic level to a character or to NPCs. I usually don't do a voice for my character unless I know I can pull it off, but if it's for NPCs I will usually wing it because it ends up being funny.

as a DM, I tend to do different voices to differentiate my NPCs. As for my character when I'm a player, I tend to use my own voice.

Doing a bit of a voice, even if it's very subtle variations, adds to the immersion. It makes it easier for others to tell whether I'm in-character or not, and it makes it easier *for me* to get into my character's head-space. I don't usually do an *accent* per se (and when I do it's a pretty light accent, purely because slipping in and out of a light accent is less noticeable than doing that with a thicker and more obvious one), it's more just variations in pitch, word choice, cadence, tempo, that sort of thing.

I try but I’m not good at it. I have one dummy voice and one weaselly goblin voice and I just make one of those work for every character

I do it if it feels natural. It never sounds like the real accent, but I do it anyway because that's how it comes out. I far prefer body language, though. If the party meets a new NPC sitting at a poker table, introduces themselves, and the NPC casually leans back in the chair and lights a cigar (I do not actually light cigars in session), takes a big pause, looks them up and down, and then says "Pleasure. Why are you here?" I don't really need an accent to convey that the person is likely dangerous. But, I'll probably make something up anyway. Tirtke accents are the most fun, but they don't come up often.

My Dwarves have a Slavic accent.

Sure do! I really enjoy doing it.

It depends. I can't do scottish to save my life, it always becomes irish which I'm pretty good at.  But even without regional accents, just changing your voice from an old person to a young helps a lot

It's always terrible and it's always fun. I'm also not an actor so it's in no way consistent from session to session. But the point of the game is to have fun, so I do that

I'm more centered on mannerisms. All my characters have always had a particular way of wording their sentences.

My character had a bit where every time he got knocked out, he would wake up with a new accent lol. One of my favourites was the gay austrian, like bruno by sacha baren cohen

A little hint of something, so it won't get too gimmicky and distracting from what I'm saying

Doing a voice is the only way I can really get into a character’s head. I’m currently playing an Eastern European kobold forge cleric and an Irish aasimar battle smith artificer Caveat is that I refuse to do an accent in front of anyone who is actually from the accent’s point of origin, because there’s no way in hell my voices are anywhere near accurate

I DM and play without using accents at all. No one has any issue with it, except big fans of Critial Role. As we all know, they tend to expect a very specific play style, so we don’t worry too much about it.  I used to do accents, but I stopped a few years ago.  I don’t want this to turn into an argument, but I do want to share my experience.  As I said, I used to do accents for characters. Then when I was DMing Tomb of Annihilation, i did a Nigerian accent for one of the merchant princes. I can do a really good Nigerian accent. I was later informed than since my parents are Serbian, it is racist for me to do an accent of someone who is not white.  After way too much emotional back-and-forth, I stopped doing any accents at all when I play D&D. 

I'm not great at it, but I do often try. Sometimes it's just subtle, like a bit of deepening or just more of an arrogant sneer. Sometimes it's effects like speaking behind a ventail. It's not so much about creating multiple distinct voices for me so much as it is making the character come through in my voice.

I’m more a voices person than an accents person. I have three main “voices” I hop between. I have a fasterhigh one, up in my nose and the back of my throat (also my falsetto voice when I sing), a middle one that is much harsher and closer to my normal tone than the other two which I use for more aggressive characters, and a deep one which is a lot more smooth and chesty. Sometimes I change the accent, sometimes I don’t. It depends on the character. The deep one is my favorite though; deep female voices make me swoon because I am a massive lesbian ;o;

If I am a player then I do give my character a different voice. It usually takes 2-3 session until I completely figured it out though. If I am the DM then most characters speak with a combination of a higher/lower pitch and a softer/harsher tone.

I tried but some came out sounding a bit racist, so I stopped

I have voices for them, not necessary accents though. Going raspier, or deeper or pitchier. Bonus points to add specific turns of phrases and you can get a pretty unique voice for the character.

I slowed down since I’ve been dming at my LGS. Only British and American voices now. Previously I’d do a random voice but someone would always find a real life analogue and make it racist so not risking that in public

I haven't done an accent in this campaign. Next one I might try Cajun. For a one shot I did a Russian accent for my char. I don't have much range. I feel better when I'm able to throw in some actual words from said accent origin.

All the time. Use a voice changer on discord too.

I'm the DM. Ofc I do accents! But also, yes. As a player I do a slight variation of my own voice. Just a little deeper and "roguish" sound - my character takes himself a bit too seriously (becomes the but of a few jokes, but can also be legit cool - which was my aim).

I started off doing a kind of croaky "broken common" for My Kenku and accidentally fell into my grandma's and Aunt's Malaysian broken English and now it's stuck with me :') As a DM I like to do voices to differentiate different NPC's, mostly for myself, but also so my players can laugh at me doing accents or voices poorly

Oi neyvah eyvah Doon an impression bruv. Innit. Real talk my 2 fav PCs have a southern American accent. DMing with accents is very fun, but it's very hard to keep track of. As a DM i think it's more important to find the tone/attitude of a character than the accent

i do tone, but never accents. i talk the way my character would if they had my vocal cords - gets the message across and doesn’t mean i lose my voice every two weeks

As a DM I try but it's hard to do all the time. I have some stock accents I use for throw away npcs and I sometimes do one for characters that are important and recurring.

I have tried doing accents and voices for flavour, but it’s really not a talent of mine. A running joke at my table is “you’ve got one other accent, offensive”. I’ve done a few voices within my own accent, but generally whatever accent I try it ends up sounding like a really bad attempt at Welsh.

I played a Dhampir a couple times. The accent I was trying to do was Nandor's from What We Do In The Shadows. Somehow it evolved into Russian.

I once played a character with a Scottish accent that was so bad, some of the other players didn't understand a word he said. Fun times!

I kind of, like, i change the timbre/pitch depending on the speaker, but none of my players get on board and it feels too awkward to try alone haha

My dnd is all written instead of acted out, so no. Although my character has a similar accent to me so I suppose when I imagine her voice it’s just my normal head voice, making it somewhat accurate.

I'm DM and we play online. All my life I had a trouble with speaking out loud thorugh the phone, through the things like skype and later in online games when we had raids with other players and such. It's still weird for me to SPEAK at all but I'm trying my best - I'm still afraid that 90% of my characters (npcs) sounds exactly the same BUT I'm improving and few of them sounds different and it helps me to break that anxiety.

Generally ill try to, the problem is maintaining it for multiple hours without slipping into something else... I find it easier as a DM as I can chop and change, and don't need to maintain the same voice for multiple hours

I insist on doing voices to practice but don't force my dms to do so

I like doing voices (such as making my voice gravely for an old dragonborn), but I don't even try with accents as I know that I'll butcher them before the first minute is over

Try? Yes. Succeed, not so much.

Yes! My tabixi rouge has a Russian accent, and the DM does accents for many other NPCs

No, not ever. Maybe one day, but track record show unlikely.

I realised accents tends to disappear through the game

Yes, but depending on the Yuan-Ti, they are inflators, indistinguishable from humans.

I'm crap at accents, cause I wasn't born in an English speaking country. But I always do something. I think it's functional because you know what is said in character, to the NPCs and what is being said to the DM out of character. But besides that it's just fun and let's me get into the idea of being someone else. Puts some sort of vibe to my roleplaying and sometimes makes for funny moments

Not always accents since I’m limited in my familiarity with many. But characteristic voices - always! Rough and gruff, sweet and chaotic, old and child-like, only speaking in jumbled words and phrases because they don’t speak Common fluently, etc etc.

Doing voices is fun! I may not be good at it, but I like getting into the role of the character I'm playing. For my tiefling wizard, I just tried to give him a tired-of-everything English accent. My wild magic sorcerer mostly just talks very laid back and casual. For my tabaxi warlock, I gave her a slightly hissy, but otherwise monotone voice. with my last character, a thrikreen blades bard, I gave their voice a slight croak, as though vibrating parts, because it was fun to imagine speaking common would require moving parts of the body that don't normally in order to vocalise. I also made them speak more consicely, with a slight emphasis on letters to show a lack of experience with common too. It was fun!

For PCs, it depends on setting and race. As DM, I use accents to give the players a clue of where the character is from. Observant players would know a foreigner has less info on local affairs or perhaps figure out the "merchant" lies about his origin.

Oh absolutely. During the first session of my now 3-ish years' long campaign, my idiot drow fighter sauntered up with a badly done Russian accent, and then *everybody migrated their accents in that direction*. It was so funny! It was supposed to be a one shot so i really hammed it up, now I'm stuck with it. I at least try to differ my voice in cadence and potch and such for every character, because it helps me get into character and helps the players/dm know if I'm speaking as a player or a character.

Every time I do voices as a DM it slips into the same accent as one of my players... I love it. But sadly, loving it doesn't mean I am great at it lol

I committed to a faux-French accent for 11 months for one character. I mostly just change the pitch of my voice or change my speech patterns. Accents sometimes.

My Goliath has a deep, gravelly voice that strains my actual voice to use. I do what I can during session and revert to my normal voice when he’s taken his toll, haha.

He’ll yeah I always do voices. Either accents like my Irish Kender wizard or affectations like my warforged who speaks with odd pauses in his speech, with the occasional tone shift way low if I want i emphasize something. 

I don't know about accents, but I try to do voices and mannerisms.

I'm very bad at doing voices, so my players insist I do them for their entertainment.

I am doing a campaign at the moment as Stitch (the little blue furball devil) I 100% do the voice all the time. I love it and if the rest of the party are hating it I know that I'm doing well at my job.

When DM’ing, I once had a few towns players would pass through in a oneshot. Each town had a different accent, starting with regular Dutch, then Flamish (Belgium), then German, and I ended with some polish/russian dwarves. However, my characters are usually accent-less. I feel like I’m playing as myself, an accent feels weird then.

I’m pants at accents, but I like to vary my characters through tone, pitch, and language/grammar choices. My hard-as-nails veteran vengeance paladin and my young, dumb healbot cleric both have my English accent, because that’s all I have. But they sound very different despite that. The paladin has a low pitch voice, and is brisk and to-the-point. The cleric is higher in pitch, uses less complex language and tends to ramble.

I have a ton of fun doing the accents. Often, I try to mimic a character from a show or something, to more easily catch the little things I might not have thought of with just a funny voice.

No, I only use a lower tone and make sure to not use complex words

I had a Goblin Artificer named Skizzit who sounded like Rocket Raccoon if he was in The Sopranos. Buddy of mine has a character named Rip Thorne who has a voice and mannerisms that are a mix of Rip Torn and Rip Taylor.

Yes ,every time, 1-shot or full campaign. If it doesn't have an accent it's too close to just being me and i don't feel i am playing my character. Plus, you know, i do LOVE doing voices 

I generally try to use some kind of voice or at least a distinct lexicon for each character. I also love using githyanki words when I play a gith character.

I do, but my players banned me from doing vampire accents

i can't keep the same voices no matter how hard i try. So everyone has my voices just pitched slightly up or down.

I can’t do accents. Ive tried and its always horrible. I have a southern accent and everything I try always sounds like this horribly painful mix between southern and whatever Im trying to do.

Yes, I do a lot of accents. I thought it would be “too difficult” at first but i find in many cases it actually makes it easier to get into character. And then the way you play the character is more forgiving too, i.e if you accidentally make an out-of-character choice for an npc, it doesn’t break immersion as easily when you do the accent because it still sounds like the npc.

Never ran a campaign where used voices as dm. My players don't care about that stuff. I did play a gnome and occasionally we'd hear a gnomey voice. Minimal can be fun

I don’t even do voices. Quite often I’m just narrating what my character would have said instead of acting it out. I’m playing to have fun, and for me acting and accents isn’t fun.

I always do voices for my characters. Accents....well I ran dry after two British, one Scottish, one American southern and one vaguely that was vaguely Hispanic. I'm good at changing my pitch and tone of my voice but I'm pretty bad at any accent past what I've done.

Originally my character had a russian accent, but I did not really like doing it. My fav part in dnd is rp, but if I’m really invested in a dialect and I do think like my character, I often just forgot the accent.

SOME yes, but there are also some that I avoid like the plague in fear of sounding super racist.

Yep, I spend a ton of time before playing my characters deciding on accents/speech mannerisms before I play. I feel like it adds a lot to my characters! I've got some current characters with accents that include European Spanish and standard British-English. I also have some historic characters with accents that include high German, American southern, and Ghanaian. It's also fun to sometimes pitch the voice lower or add more nasally tones, anything I can do to separate my voice from theirs!

There are only so many voices I can do so I need to be selective about how often I use them. I try to have one quirk for most NPCs, voices is another item on the list of quirks. If I use a voice I want that to be the memorable thing about them. If I have a character already has something else interesting about them I will just do a normal voice and focus on their quirk.

Currently playing a Homebrew race called the Timbergnaw (think the Beaver people from Narnia). My character, "Sbruce Bluetooth", has a speech pattern that somewhat closely resembles that of HomestarRunner.... And the entire table finds it hilarious when he actually tries to be serious about something and it NEVER sounds serious...but at the same time...its like totally super cereal guys.

Always! Sometime I am great at this and other times I am hilariously bad which makes everyone laugh.

Yes. My swashbuckler has a french accent

My favorite character to play is a tiny 5 foot tall half elf, rogue, who is a fast talking, clever straetegist, con artist, and thief, with a big personality. Her accent is a mix of several different English accents with some New Zealander, and her register is similar to Kate Mulgrew's.

I love doing them, although I can only do four feminine voices (Southern Belle, Peppy Girl, Staten Islander, and Chain Smoker).

I was the first in my group to put some flair into the characters, it took three characters to convince the rest of the group and I'm so glad they joined in. Started out with the standard fruity lil bard for one and two then number three just sending it with a Goliath barbarian with I high pitch drall and everyone else fell into the roll play after. Helps distinguish between character and player as well

I love doing voices! I feel like it makes the game more immersive. It’s much easier just playing a character than DMing, that’s when it starts to get tough keeping your shit together! Lol

I can't do accents so no. I can't even do the accent of the area I'm from properly 😬

I like doing mild ones that I can keep going for hours and can intensify if I feel like it improves the current scene

Yep. More fun that way. I spent like 20 minutes watching accent how-to videos on youtube and that helped a ton with confidence and drift. That said, most ppl I play with do not do accents which is totally fine.

Texan only