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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6080420" data-attributes="member: 98008">I have DMed before where I ran all of the plot and adjudications, but had a co-DM run all of the combat encounters. 4th edition lent itself well to this, I would just tell him I want 2500XP worth of bandits to attack the party, then he would spend that XP to make a nasty encounter. It made the game very deadly though. He was in it to win it, as far as the combat encounters went. I told him who/what he was playing and what their motivations were and he did the rest.Be warned though, there is a big difference between a group of bandits run as normal DM cannon-fodder and a bandit group run by somebody basically using them like a PC. They might have the same stats, but one will be a heck of a lot nastier than the other. In every combat, the 'encounter-DMs' role was for the enemies to succeed in their motivations, not just to advance the story or provide a fun challenge. It made for a very different lethality and challenge to the game.It also led to some interesting ambushes and reoccuring villians, as when the encounter-DM 'loses', the survivors of the encounter often plotted their revenge, or worked out how to mitigate their losses.</blockquote>