It’s been a few weeks since David LaFreniere’s giving dream posts.

It’s been a few weeks since David LaFreniere’s giving dream posts.

It’s been a few weeks since David LaFreniere’s giving dream posts.

This week I’ve been thinking a lot about the voices of our community members. Voice has a strong role here. The podcasts, of course, but Hangout games are a primarily audio medium.

I’m giving a dream to Richard Rogers and Doyle Tavener for their rich, smooth, full voices. They are great at conveying “shit got real” when they GM.

I’m giving a dream to David LaFreniere and Jason Cordova for their economy and expressiveness. In character, they can say so much with a word or two.

I’m giving a dream to Lowell Francis for his voice of authority and contemplation.

22 thoughts on “It’s been a few weeks since David LaFreniere’s giving dream posts.”

  1. What an interesting subject for dreams! That economy of expression comes from David and I being part of the deeply competitive Houston Gauntlet table. We’re always trying to one-up each other in-character, haha. Daniel Lewis and Steve Mains are also very, very good at that. I love watching them play.

  2. What an interesting subject for dreams! That economy of expression comes from David and I being part of the deeply competitive Houston Gauntlet table. We’re always trying to one-up each other in-character, haha. Daniel Lewis and Steve Mains are also very, very good at that. I love watching them play.

  3. I’ll kick over a dream to Tim B for the way he modulates his voice on PSP to represent different characters. He’s not really “doing voices” as much as he’s making subtle changes to how he talks, and I think it’s really effective.

    As far as “doing voices,” I’ll give another dream to Doyle Tavener, because he does some of the best I’ve heard at a table.

  4. I’ll kick over a dream to Tim B for the way he modulates his voice on PSP to represent different characters. He’s not really “doing voices” as much as he’s making subtle changes to how he talks, and I think it’s really effective.

    As far as “doing voices,” I’ll give another dream to Doyle Tavener, because he does some of the best I’ve heard at a table.

  5. I want to give a dream to Jorge Salazar for his amazing voices, and for the time he awed us at the first ever Death Frost Doom when we took a break at lunch and he told us some of his characters story, from his character’s perspective (accent included!) I also want to give Scott Owen for having a voice and articulation somewhere between an opera performer and a radio personality. Silky cocoa butter smooth I believe is the industry term.

  6. I want to give a dream to Jorge Salazar for his amazing voices, and for the time he awed us at the first ever Death Frost Doom when we took a break at lunch and he told us some of his characters story, from his character’s perspective (accent included!) I also want to give Scott Owen for having a voice and articulation somewhere between an opera performer and a radio personality. Silky cocoa butter smooth I believe is the industry term.

  9. I think the two times that I was featured on The Gauntlet podcast which included exceedingly terrible “funny” accents, raving gibberish, and explicit language were enough. What was the name of the gentleman who runs the OSR games with a voice akin to the love child of Morgan Freeman, Spock, and a excited tittering elder nerd? My love of his voice is similar to Samantha Traynor’s love for EDI’s voice in the Mass Effect series, here is a sample:

    EDI: “On one occasion, you said that you wanted to, quote: ‘Pin my voice against the wall and run your tongue along its collarbone.’”

    Traynor: “Well, there’s a context there, that… ah… You were talking about quantum entanglement, and I didn’t know… you were an AI!”

    EDI: “I was very interested in Traynor’s ability to develop sexual feelings for what was, at the time, a bodiless voice.”

    Traynor: “You are all terrible. EDI, I apologize for saying that I wanted to roll naked with your voice in satin sheets.”

    EDI: “Oh, I was not offended. In fact, it was flattering.”

    Traynor: “Even the part where I wanted to grab your voice by the hair and nibble my way down its back?”

    EDI: “I do not in fact remember you saying that, Samantha.”

    Traynor: “Oh! That wasn’t out loud? Never mind.”

    Rolling with that voice in D20 festooned satin sheets every night. Giving me SWEET sweet dreams.

  10. I think the two times that I was featured on The Gauntlet podcast which included exceedingly terrible “funny” accents, raving gibberish, and explicit language were enough. What was the name of the gentleman who runs the OSR games with a voice akin to the love child of Morgan Freeman, Spock, and a excited tittering elder nerd? My love of his voice is similar to Samantha Traynor’s love for EDI’s voice in the Mass Effect series, here is a sample:

    EDI: “On one occasion, you said that you wanted to, quote: ‘Pin my voice against the wall and run your tongue along its collarbone.’”

    Traynor: “Well, there’s a context there, that… ah… You were talking about quantum entanglement, and I didn’t know… you were an AI!”

    EDI: “I was very interested in Traynor’s ability to develop sexual feelings for what was, at the time, a bodiless voice.”

    Traynor: “You are all terrible. EDI, I apologize for saying that I wanted to roll naked with your voice in satin sheets.”

    EDI: “Oh, I was not offended. In fact, it was flattering.”

    Traynor: “Even the part where I wanted to grab your voice by the hair and nibble my way down its back?”

    EDI: “I do not in fact remember you saying that, Samantha.”

    Traynor: “Oh! That wasn’t out loud? Never mind.”

    Rolling with that voice in D20 festooned satin sheets every night. Giving me SWEET sweet dreams.

  17. Looking at ‘voice’ in a more figurative sense, I would give a dream to Andrea G and Saffire Rainbo for adding their voices to our podcasts. For a start, the Gauntlet needs more women voices, but also Andrea has really widened our game coverage, and Saffire brings a very fun approach to progressive causes in the way she does her characterizations on Pocket-Sized Play.

  18. Looking at ‘voice’ in a more figurative sense, I would give a dream to Andrea G and Saffire Rainbo for adding their voices to our podcasts. For a start, the Gauntlet needs more women voices, but also Andrea has really widened our game coverage, and Saffire brings a very fun approach to progressive causes in the way she does her characterizations on Pocket-Sized Play.

  19. I would have tagged Sarah, Meguey, and all the other women who added their voices to the podcasts. Alas my tagging went out to lunch today.

    Saffire Rainbo gets a dream because her depiction of Eden is so spot on. Jeez, he’s everything that irks me about my white male peers. People are even weirdly deferential towards him.

  20. I would have tagged Sarah, Meguey, and all the other women who added their voices to the podcasts. Alas my tagging went out to lunch today.

    Saffire Rainbo gets a dream because her depiction of Eden is so spot on. Jeez, he’s everything that irks me about my white male peers. People are even weirdly deferential towards him.

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