Re: Accents

cattrain wrote:

I was wondering what a good accent would be for each of the races in
the players handbook

My friends and I wasted a few afternoons at university discussing this a while
ago.

Common = Chinese. English is a) too obvious and b) better used as the planar
trade tongue (a concept more prevalent in Second Edition) because that's the
number-one purpose for which it's taught: business. Considered as a single group
(rather than divided into Cantonese, Mandarin, Hakka, et cetera) it's also by
far the most widely-spoken language on Earth, with over a billion native
speakers. Even by itself, Mandarin is the most widely-spoken language in the
world, with 872 million native speakers and over a billion speakers total.

Elven = Irish Gaelic.

Dwarven = Scots Gaelic.

Gnomes = Welsh. Svirfneblin = Finnish. That's an in-joke, that is.

Orcish = Bantu, maybe? I can't remember.

I know Draconic was Italian and Celestial was Latin. Infernal was German
(obvious) and Abyssal was French (obvious).

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