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Speech Patterns for NPCs - A GM Cheat Sheet

You will like this if you:

  • If you are a Game Master with NPCs in your game,
  • If you want to spice things up a bit without resorting to Accents & voices.
  • ...or if you in fact use Accents & voices, but want to expand your repertoire.

Why I did it & how I use it:

I'm GMing a lot, & along the course of the years I felt like my NPCs start to feel & sound the same. This cheat sheet helps me keep things fresh.
For your information, I never roll an NPC speech pattern during a session, that would disturb me too much. Instead,

  • I use this cheat sheet during session prep, when I prep an interesting NPC. 
  • During a session, I may glance at it to spice up an impromtu NPC, picking whatever option gets my fancy.

Do not overuse it on the same NPC. To keep things comfortable for yourself, I recommend 1~2 speech pattern results by NPC.

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Special Thanks to Leo & Helene, for their review & support!

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
AuthorGoupilverse
TagsDungeons & Dragons, Forged in the Dark, PbtA, Tabletop role-playing game
Average sessionA few seconds
LanguagesEnglish

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This is such an amazing idea!! I definitely struggle to differentiate NPC voices and I am so excited to try this out the next time I'm running something involving NPCs.

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What a brilliant little tool! I used it for my Cairn session tonight and it just brought the NPCs to life :)

A GM tool for the AGES, this is wonderful stuff.

Just saw this, IT IS AMAZING! I have a lot of NPCs and I cant do accents for the life of me. This is a great product and I will definetely use it in my party’s next shopping session! Great work!👍