EASY voice acting tips for your TTRPG character

These quick tips will have you voice acting (almost) like a pro at your next TTRPG gaming session.

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[brianbays]

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

[trishapellis]

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.

[minimoose]

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

[OC]

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

[LaughingBearGames]

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.

[handyman]

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

[RubyCallicoat]

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

[jordanmcneely]

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

[Kyphura]

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

[luckybear]

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!!!!

[Ghvt]

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

[maxmusterspace]

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.

[QualityChaos]

“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💀

[MystraRavenwind]

I sometimes practice accents in voice chats online.

[ElijahBerg]

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.

[JasonV_DM]

Still the best TTRPG how to do voices guide 👍

[FellaforLife]

5:58 this step should be EASY, I do it all the time

[wanderdragon]

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

[jeremyscott]

How James McAvoy didn't win an award for that movie is beyond me. IMO, that was next level acting.

[lynx]

My character in DND is a Kenku and my dm has said I get a bonus if I can keep shattering my voice by changing it constantly so here I am