Dubbing Differences: The Three Caballeros

 

Okay, this one here? This is a big one. The Three Caballeros was released by Disney in 1945 as a goodwill message for Latin America. Uniquely, as part of Disney's goal to make this movie specifically for Spanish, Portuguese, and English speakers, the three main characters—Donald Duck, José Carioca, and Panchito Pistoles—have the same voice actors in all three versions! It was a bit difficult to understand Donald's Portuguese in a few places, but for the most part, Clarence Nash did an admirable job throughout. And it was fun to watch the film through a Brazilian's eyes and see the ways that the three languages presented in the film overlap like a Venn diagram at times, just like they do in the English version. Here are the differences I found.

Bastion: Sage University

You are awarded a Bastion when you reach 5th level. During downtime, you can invest gold into your Bastion to upgrade it with new facilities and services. At the end of a downtime, you can choose a number of available services equal to your proficiency bonus and gain their effects until the end of your next adventure. You can gain multiple uses of the same service unless otherwise stated. See the original post here.

Sage Bastion: University

The university is a place of arcane secrets and research where the mysteries of the universe are unraveled and the barrier between planes of existence is thin. As a sage, you can use your University to obtain vital knowledge and enhance your arcane abilities.

Chrono Trigger-style Dual Techs in 5e

Chrono Trigger is one of the greatest games ever made. Everything from the complex plot to the incredible soundtrack to the lovable characters and their interactions with each other has an element of polished quality to it that is hard to find anywhere else. Its storyline in particular, with its themes of time travel and preventing the end of the world, is very inspiring for a D&D campaign.

Bastion: Soldier Barracks

You are awarded a Bastion when you reach 5th level. During downtime, you can invest gold into your Bastion to upgrade it with new facilities and services. At the end of a downtime, you can choose a number of available services equal to your proficiency bonus and gain their effects until the end of your next adventure. You can gain multiple uses of the same service unless otherwise stated. See the original post here.

Soldier Bastion: Barracks

The barracks is a Bastion of martial training, as well as a place of blade and armor honing and strategic discussion. As a soldier, you can use your Barracks to help augment your fighting abilities in coming battles. 

Bastions that Level Up Like Characters

 

One of the most fun parts about playing Dungeons & Dragons is leveling up. Before the campaign even starts, many players enjoy looking at their character class and looking forward to later levels when they can use more and more powerful abilities, or mapping out a complex multiclass build to make the most of the levels in more than one class.

Dubbing Differences: Beauty and the Beast

I found the following notable changes in the Brazilian Portuguese dub of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Kind of an uninteresting dub. Almost everything is translated word for word and there's not a ton of wordplay.

Elfsong of Elturel (from Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus)

I recently discovered Suno, an AI that makes music. And it does it surprisingly well! I can't believe we live in a time when you can type some lyrics into an app, choose a style, and then seconds later have a catchy song that no one has ever heard before playing!

I'm currently working on an actual album of my past poetry and other text put to music, which will be out soon. Until then, playing Baldur's Gate 3 gave me the idea to use Suno to make a D&D resource. This is a song that plays in a tavern in the module Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus.

The song is sung in Elvish, so I took the time to make another video translated into Sindarin to simulate what non-Elvish speaking player characters might hear. The translation itself was made word by word, so its grammar is probably terrible, and I changed a few words so that they would rhyme. But I think it does its job of sounding mystical well enough. The hard part was making Suno sing the same tune to different words, but I finally got it to work.

Enjoy! And if you're running Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, you should also check out my infernal war machine tokens I made to go with it.