Growing up, any time D&D or roleplaying got referenced in pop-culture, it always involved the characters speaking "Ye Olde" style. Just a lot of "Forsooth" and "thou" all over the place. But since getting into the game... I have never once even heard someone attempt to speak that way. Was that ever really a thing? Have any of you ever played a character who speaks that way?
There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding Old and Middle English that I just avoid their use altogether. It just confuses people and, when used incorrectly, triggers many of my neuroses even if the usage is in jest. (Minen eyes twitchen at BadEye's attempts in Beyond Heroes. *shudder*😖)
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It really depends on the setting; I've done some more 'middle ages' influenced settings where people "Spoketh like this, for this be the way one doth speak" and I've done Eberron adjacent settings where people talk like they're out of a noir pulp detective film.
The way people speak can do a lot of setting the tone.
For starters, don't use "thou" and its possessives and conjugations to speak to strangers or to people of higher social standing. It is reserved for familiarity of family and friends or for those seen as a lower social status than the speaker... or at the worst, to insult someone who would normally be addressed differently. *cringe*
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
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Growing up, any time D&D or roleplaying got referenced in pop-culture, it always involved the characters speaking "Ye Olde" style. Just a lot of "Forsooth" and "thou" all over the place. But since getting into the game... I have never once even heard someone attempt to speak that way. Was that ever really a thing? Have any of you ever played a character who speaks that way?
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As a DM I’ve done some NPCs that speak that way, but never a PC as a player.
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There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding Old and Middle English that I just avoid their use altogether. It just confuses people and, when used incorrectly, triggers many of my neuroses even if the usage is in jest. (Minen eyes twitchen at BadEye's attempts in Beyond Heroes. *shudder*😖)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
It really depends on the setting; I've done some more 'middle ages' influenced settings where people "Spoketh like this, for this be the way one doth speak" and I've done Eberron adjacent settings where people talk like they're out of a noir pulp detective film.
The way people speak can do a lot of setting the tone.
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For starters, don't use "thou" and its possessives and conjugations to speak to strangers or to people of higher social standing. It is reserved for familiarity of family and friends or for those seen as a lower social status than the speaker... or at the worst, to insult someone who would normally be addressed differently. *cringe*
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.