NPC Voices Generator
This table is to give ideas for various character voices for NPCs. This is not about accents, just what you can do within a certain accent. Speed, pitch, and texture are the most basic ways to change up voices. The Speech patterns and mannerisms are to further distinguish between characters both for you and your PCs. A recommendation in the original post by /u/TuesdayTastic was to add small mannerisms to get into character and remind you what voice to use.
Basics
Use these tables with:
2d3 Speed and Pitch
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| 1 |
Low |
1 |
Slow |
| 2 |
Medium |
2 |
Medium |
| 3 |
High |
3 |
Fast |
1d8 Vocal Texture
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| 1 |
Gruff |
| 2 |
Smooth |
| 3 |
Strained |
| 4 |
Relaxed |
| 5 |
Breathy |
| 6 |
Wolfish (from the back of the throat) |
| 7 |
Scratchy |
| 8 |
Nasal |
1d50 Speech or Vocal patterns
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| 1 |
Incoherent except for a few key words |
| 2 |
Stutters |
| 3 |
lots of um |
| 4 |
lots of like |
| 5 |
lots of swearing |
| 6 |
uses thee's and thou's |
| 7 |
never stops to breathe |
| 8 |
Short, clipped sentences |
| 9 |
talks in third person |
| 10 |
doesn't conjugate well ("me make good soup") |
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| 11 |
all S-sounds become Z-sounds |
| 12 |
all w-sounds become v-sounds |
| 13 |
R's arrrrrre always rrrrrrrolled |
| 14 |
never uses contractions |
| 15 |
Whiny |
| 16 |
stuffy nose |
| 17 |
tongue stuck to back of teeth |
| 18 |
opens mouth too wide |
| 19 |
clenched teeth |
| 20 |
barely opens lips |
| 21 |
all Th-sounds become Z-sounds |
| 22 |
repeats the last few words of a sentence/thought ("nice to meet you, meet you.") |
| 23 |
uses full titles or descriptions ("jon-farmers-son"") |
| 24 |
repeats adj/adv for more impact ("pretty-pretty!") |
| 25 |
Nouns end with "en"/"sen" (applesen, moosen) |
| 26 |
L-sounds become w-sounds |
| 27 |
repeats the last word you say before responding |
| 28 |
sings everything |
| 29 |
does the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllables |
| 30 |
pauses often |
| 31 |
staccato speech |
| 32 |
Monotonous |
| 33 |
whistles on S-sounds |
| 34 |
Heavy lisp on Th and S (th-ufferin th-uckertash!) |
| 35 |
Light lisp |
| 36 |
r-sounds become w-sounds |
| 37 |
severe underbite |
| 38 |
severe overbite |
| 39 |
speaks out of the corner of his mouth |
| 40 |
always pouting |
| 41 |
"ar" becomes "ayr" (cart = cayrt, bear = beayr) |
| 42 |
soft letters are elongated ("sso, hhow arre yyou?") |
| 43 |
slurrs words |
| 44 |
mouth is always full when talking |
| 45 |
Sighs after each sentence |
| 46 |
Never uses am/is/are/was/were (“I big.” “She pretty.”) |
| 47 |
Responds in the form of questions |
| 48 |
Always over-exaggerates |
| 49 |
Never tells the complete truth |
| 50 |
mutters to self |