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<blockquote data-quote="babomb" data-source="post: 1018970" data-attributes="member: 1316">It is indeed hard to pull off. One piece of advice I would give is to clearly define duties. Once, I was a co-DM. Originally, it was intended that he would do most of the planning/running the game stuff and I would run most of NPCs and occasionally run the game if he couldn't make it or the party split up. One of the problems we had is that we didn't really communicate things very well. Often during a session I knew as little about the adventure as the players. Also, at least once the party split into two groups, so he ran in one room and I in the other. It turned out that both groups ended up in the same place, but we didn't realize it because we were in different rooms. Another problem with this is that he had a short temper. More than once he exploded over some stupid detail and left me to run a dungeon crawl he'd made that I knew nothing about. Eventually, I just ran the campaign on my own.Later, we started another campaign and the guy I had Co-DMed with was running it again. While we were creating characters, one player decided he didn't like the character he had made and asked to co-DM. The DM agreed. That very same day, the main DM got angry at the players and stormed out. The co-DM continued running that game for about a year.Really, the biggest problem was his temper, but the communication and poorly defined responsibilities caused problems as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="babomb, post: 1018970, member: 1316"] It is indeed hard to pull off. One piece of advice I would give is to clearly define duties. Once, I was a co-DM. Originally, it was intended that he would do most of the planning/running the game stuff and I would run most of NPCs and occasionally run the game if he couldn't make it or the party split up. One of the problems we had is that we didn't really communicate things very well. Often during a session I knew as little about the adventure as the players. Also, at least once the party split into two groups, so he ran in one room and I in the other. It turned out that both groups ended up in the same place, but we didn't realize it because we were in different rooms. Another problem with this is that he had a short temper. More than once he exploded over some stupid detail and left me to run a dungeon crawl he'd made that I knew nothing about. Eventually, I just ran the campaign on my own. Later, we started another campaign and the guy I had Co-DMed with was running it again. While we were creating characters, one player decided he didn't like the character he had made and asked to co-DM. The DM agreed. That very same day, the main DM got angry at the players and stormed out. The co-DM continued running that game for about a year. Really, the biggest problem was his temper, but the communication and poorly defined responsibilities caused problems as well. [/QUOTE]

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