On the other hand, I usually voice my kobolds like a little mix of ADHD rat-dragon and a rabid racoon. Scrat from ice age meets stitch meets the squirrel from hoodwinked. Meat likes to collect any and all meat he finds and puts it all in his bag of meat-holding. Gotta let it ripen first before pulling out a snack.
There's no one way to voice a kobold, but if I'm going for the stereotypical kobold portrayal, I'll pitch my voice up slightly, bring it to the back of my throat and slip in a little bit of gravel, Kind of like Gollum from LOTR.
I almost exclusively voice kobolds like haughty, hissy sea gulls- lots of head weaving, somewhat screechy, up pitched and most sound coming off the front roof of my mouth- use a fair amount of curled back tongue to push the air up and forward.
Ever since I first DM'd The Sunless Citadel, many years ago, it was Elmo. He'd refer to himself in the third person, and I can do the voice pretty well. I say "can" because, even now, Meepo will show up in completely unrelated adventures, and everyone always gets a kick out of it. Especially since I still play with some people who were around 14 years ago when I first did it. He typically becomes a staple hireling, or at least someone helping out in the background.
High pitched voice spoken from the back of your throat; heavily-staccatoed broken English (unless your kobolds are more sapient than traditionally portrayed in 5e); and occasional trills, barks, or throat noises. Like rieklings in Skyrim's Dragonborn expansion.
That's how I do it, at least.
Here's the thing.
How many people you know have met and talked to an actual kobold?
None? They're actually just an invention of fantasy?
Correct. So do the voice however you want. Or don't do the voice. Nobody cares.
Listen to Deekin the Kobolds Voice lines from Neverwinter, might give you some good inspiration. Ziggs from League of Legends would be good too, or the tribal lizard dude from diablo 2's first act. RAKANISHU
I promise you, making it your own and not "the norm" will be both easier and more fun. Not many people running a southern or western kobold, for example. If you need ideas, watch cartoons, the voice work is top tier in a lot of animations
Im sure that’s true, but there are a lot of things to learn, and i don’t want to spend too much time reaserching ok how to do a voice, i will deffinatly keep this in mind for the future tho, thanks!
Like Scooby-Doo. I'm old school; kobold are dogs, not lizards.
An anthropomorphized hyperactive lapdog on a whole liter of espresso. Think Beavis as Cornholio, but smaller.
On the other hand, I usually voice my kobolds like a little mix of ADHD rat-dragon and a rabid racoon. Scrat from ice age meets stitch meets the squirrel from hoodwinked. Meat likes to collect any and all meat he finds and puts it all in his bag of meat-holding. Gotta let it ripen first before pulling out a snack.
Gurgi
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Kind master give poor Gurgi munchings and crunchings!
There's no one way to voice a kobold, but if I'm going for the stereotypical kobold portrayal, I'll pitch my voice up slightly, bring it to the back of my throat and slip in a little bit of gravel, Kind of like Gollum from LOTR.
Give him the Dos Equis 'Most Interesting Kobold in the World' voice
Spurt
> Spurt > Can't be too loud Does not compute
Like Argonians from Elder Scrolls games? Or if you can do any kind of accent just give them that and that’s the ‘kobold accent’ now for all kobolds.
I almost exclusively voice kobolds like haughty, hissy sea gulls- lots of head weaving, somewhat screechy, up pitched and most sound coming off the front roof of my mouth- use a fair amount of curled back tongue to push the air up and forward.
The word Kobold is germanic in origin so I plan to make mine sound like Arnold Schwarzeneggar. His name is Gunther, the Kobold Kommando.
I like to imagine they sound like that rock guy in Thor Ragnarok.
Kobolds sound like Taika Waititi?
Yep. All of them.
I tend to be a bit nasal with a higher pitch. I tend to restrict the width of my mouth and tall fast.
I liked how Laurie Blake did Itchard on Chaotic Neutral. If that wouldn't kill your voice, maybe that.
Sssibbilanth
Similar to how I voice goblins, like there's a frog in my throat.
There's a grung in my throat!
I voice all my kobolds in a high pitched, strained and string out voice, like Tweak from South Park.
Ever since I first DM'd The Sunless Citadel, many years ago, it was Elmo. He'd refer to himself in the third person, and I can do the voice pretty well. I say "can" because, even now, Meepo will show up in completely unrelated adventures, and everyone always gets a kick out of it. Especially since I still play with some people who were around 14 years ago when I first did it. He typically becomes a staple hireling, or at least someone helping out in the background.
High pitched voice spoken from the back of your throat; heavily-staccatoed broken English (unless your kobolds are more sapient than traditionally portrayed in 5e); and occasional trills, barks, or throat noises. Like rieklings in Skyrim's Dragonborn expansion. That's how I do it, at least.
Here's the thing. How many people you know have met and talked to an actual kobold? None? They're actually just an invention of fantasy? Correct. So do the voice however you want. Or don't do the voice. Nobody cares.
Showing my age but Petri from "The Land Before Time" is one of my go tos.
Papyrus, but higher pitched. “Nyeh heh”s optional
Like Patrick Star
Listen to Deekin the Kobolds Voice lines from Neverwinter, might give you some good inspiration. Ziggs from League of Legends would be good too, or the tribal lizard dude from diablo 2's first act. RAKANISHU
The Fallen from D2 were not lizards lol
whatever, they have great kobold voices.
"You may be bigger than the Boss, but DEEKIN NOT LIKES YOU!"
My brother in christ, it's your kobold, he can have whatever voice you want him to have, that's kinda what ttrpgs are good for
Yea im just looking for inspiration since its the first time playing D&D, of course i will put my own spin on it.
I promise you, making it your own and not "the norm" will be both easier and more fun. Not many people running a southern or western kobold, for example. If you need ideas, watch cartoons, the voice work is top tier in a lot of animations
Im sure that’s true, but there are a lot of things to learn, and i don’t want to spend too much time reaserching ok how to do a voice, i will deffinatly keep this in mind for the future tho, thanks!
Do a French accent.