Have any of you DM's tried this?

[BlueBlackRed]

This probably isn't a new concept, but I'd like to know if this has been attempted before and what the results were.

In the history of pen & paper D&D (not-online gaming or play-by-email), has a group of DM's joined together to create a single game world that had each DM controlling his own section of the world, then reporting everything that his group did to the other DM's?

Example: 5 DM's, each with their own group of players. DM A controls region A and runs the game group A (the New York City group). DM B controls region B and runs the game for group B (the Kansas City group) , and so on. After each session, each DM reports in what happened in their group to the other DM's, and then each DM applies this information to his own region in a cause & effect manner.

 

[diaglo]

try looking up the Living Campaigns on the old WotC boards.

 

[Breakdaddy]

Ive personally done this on a much smaller scale. When I was in the service, time was at a premium and odd shifts were the norm. In order to keep a cohesive game together we had two DMs that would control two different aspects of the game. One was the Dungeoneer DM and I was the Outdoor/Wilderness DM. We had two groups of players that played under both DMs in the same basic campaign and it went really well for almost two years before I shipped out to a new base.

 

[TerraDave]

YES.

The other DM (who occasionally posts here as DiamondB) and I each would run a campaign in different parts of the world (both in game and real life) at the same time.

However, a lot of the world (see sig) was developed jointly. Overall it has worked great, and in terms of campaigns we been fairly free to focus on what the particular DM and group wanted. But you still have to have enough common ground on basic and world spanning issues to make the whole thing work.

I think ENWorld has its own jointly developed and DMed PbP setting (would someone be kind enough to post a link?)

 

[Warden]

Sounds like a description of Living Nights to me...

 

[Stone Angel]

Well apparently it has been though I have never heard of it. But I would be willing to get in on the project if you were going to set it up.

The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[BlueBlackRed]

Well apparently it has been though I have never heard of it. But I would be willing to get in on the project if you were going to set it up.

No thanks. There'd be more work to it than my time will permit.

I'm just simply curious about how it has worked in the past. What the good and bad of it was, and so on.

 

[orsal]

YES.

The other DM (who occasionally posts here as DiamondB) and I each would run a campaign in different parts of the world (both in game and real life) at the same time.

However, a lot of the world (see sig) was developed jointly. Overall it has worked great, and in terms of campaigns we been fairly free to focus on what the particular DM and group wanted. But you still have to have enough common ground on basic and world spanning issues to make the whole thing work.

I think ENWorld has its own jointly developed and DMed PbP setting (would someone be kind enough to post a link?)

You're thinking of Living ENWorld. Not quite the same thing, but close -- DMs don't control specific areas of the world, anybody get run an adventure anywhere, and when one DM does something that fleshes out a city or forest somewhere, the information revealed becomes public, to be used by any other interested DM. However, some DMs have developed their own continuing storylines within ENWorld.

 

[Emiricol]

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[JimAde]

Sounds like a description of Living Nights to me...

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Warden, the link is broken (Angelfire error). I just sent you an e-mail about the forum as well. Weirdness.
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