While it's not quite the same, my online RP (heavily inspired by D&D, V:TM, etc.) led to a fair amount of in-person, sometimes inter-continental romance and other friendships. My actual in-person TTRPG experience has given me whole friend groups, some friendships so close that one of my former...
Cheaper than Seattle, and we're drowning in tech companies. Main reason I'm not in Quebec myself is that they treat their nurses horribly and I was looking to move with one once upon a time.
For non-completionist consumers, a deluge of books is great because there's a better selection, but the ROI is harder to justify. I am very glad to have existed through the bad-at-capitalism days, but it's understandable that those are over.
What barriers do you imagine exist? We Americans work internationally just fine. I've trained people in China, Japan, and India without issue. Why is talking to default bilingual people who are closer to the US than North California is to South California a barrier?
I am going to assume they are at least moderately compotent. Multilingual support is generally only difficult if bad faith is involved, or if someone just really cannot use the internet.
English being secondary is hardly an issue. Much of the world knows English, including most of Quebec. BG3...
Montreal is a nice place with a lot of game devs and the benefit of being less bogged down by English-centric culture (more perspectives!), so hey if you're going to give it a go not a bad place for it.
They need to work on making the IP more inherently attractive to use or license. The mechanics aren't special enough (or accurately used in games) to not be replaced with a new rules system, and the worlds and stories in them are not so well-known and popular that you can't come up with a...
Waiting on the 12 issue IDW series where the Transformers end up in Mechanus, followed by a Drizzt Transformer that turns into Guenhwyvar.
Beast Wars: Eberron, perhaps.
There's probably some room for a "free action" each round for limited actions, but the weapon swap being cumbersome is pretty important for preventing people from basically having two simultaneous loadouts they swap round after round so they can get two handed damage and sheild defense. It also...