Daomei (atys)
Wrong. A majority of rolist were untagged during the assembly back on aniro (on untagged almost 100% of the time, actually), and french rolist tagging is pretty recent (after very, very, very long debates on the french forum about this).To name one, the french community considers tagging and integrating PvP into roleplay an indispensible part of their roleplay life while this was rare and was frowned upon by many.
Beneath that, roleplay wins much of its richness from language. I received a transcript of the most recent session in Thesos and had a lot of opportunities to smile upon roleplay interaction, partially puns I did understand only after careful rereading, an excellent and amusing row between the celiakos and the barman, and several more. If I compare that with national meetings, they are ways less vivid, ways slower, taking much more time.
A last word about a problem generously overlooked: The relative weakness of RP in the english speaking part of the community is to a considerable extent, though not only, a problem of timezones. It may be further a problem of lack of event managers on the other side of the Atlantic (though this is speculation from my side).
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