Secondary DMs
Thank you :)
@JKeough - I am doing something like that in the threads I am going to use for duelling :) Two Participants and an Umpire. The information characters would normally share with the GM must be shared with the Umpire in a PM. Umpire then adjudicates each round.
@Skald - It has some of the abilities that I would like to use, but my understanding is that it works across all groups, rather than allocated groups. It has one advantage, in that the moderator could 'edit' private lines to make them public - but that isn't much different from the Umpire copying content of the PL in their post.
One of my best gaming experiences came about in a group I played with for three of four years. We had three GMs, but we all GMed the same group of characters, originally taking it in turns, so we could all play a bit, as well as GM. While one GMed a specific area, two of us GMed in the same part of the game world, but had different story lines running, however I never knew any detail from Dave's storyline, and Dave never knew the detail of mine. My Character was a full-blown active PC when Dave was GMing, but a support NPC when I was GMing.
We got to a point where we could swap (GMing) back and forth between us in a game session without the group really noticing. On some occasions we would both be DMing effects at the same time.
As much as anything, this request is a combination of wishful thinking and nostalgia :)
It doesn't help that I have been thinking of a Nexus style game, although with a Primary GM running a central location and secondary GMs running games in associated planes/areas/regions. Although I probably can do that with Moderators and a group of separate games.