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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6507277" data-attributes="member: 177">This is almost always the case in live-action games.&nbsp; Sometimes in these games, there's some distinction between &quot;writers&quot;, who have written the material for the session, and &quot;floor GMs&quot;, who are there more to resolve actions.I have also been part of a GM team in some Paranoia games, where we had 10+ players per session.In both these cases, we used multiple GMs due to the number of players involved.&nbsp; If many or all actions require a GM to resolve, then if you don't have enough GMs, you get a bottleneck, and play slows to a crawl.Running games with a team adds overhead - the GM team has to communicate before and during the session, to keep continuity straight and make sure things are flowing well.&nbsp; If the overhead of inter-GM communication costs more than the bottleneck, it is not worth having a team of GMs.&nbsp; For a typical group of 4 or 5 at a tabletop, having multiple GMs is rarely going to be worth it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6507277, member: 177"] This is almost always the case in live-action games. Sometimes in these games, there's some distinction between "writers", who have written the material for the session, and "floor GMs", who are there more to resolve actions. I have also been part of a GM team in some Paranoia games, where we had 10+ players per session. In both these cases, we used multiple GMs due to the number of players involved. If many or all actions require a GM to resolve, then if you don't have enough GMs, you get a bottleneck, and play slows to a crawl. Running games with a team adds overhead - the GM team has to communicate before and during the session, to keep continuity straight and make sure things are flowing well. If the overhead of inter-GM communication costs more than the bottleneck, it is not worth having a team of GMs. For a typical group of 4 or 5 at a tabletop, having multiple GMs is rarely going to be worth it. [/QUOTE]

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