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I've tried to get a co-DM several times, but it never worked out. Does anybody have experience with multiple DMs in play-by-post?

Experience with it not working very well, not where it was an example of it working out.

I don't see why it couldn't work.
My last stint as a DM on an online persistent world for Neverwinter Nights had several DMs. As long as both DMs know what is happening, what could happen, what is supposed to happen, you know, communicate, then it would be fine.
One of the great things about PbP is that you can hold progress until DMs can collaborate, if and when surprises happen.

Gonna try it with my brother. We also have a clear division of labor. It helps have a creative partner and a critic. It also helps to have someone share the load of map making etc.

Do let me know how that turns out for you guys! You could say I am mildly interested in the idea but would like to see a successful pull off of such a stunt first, see if it really was all it was chalked up to be in my mind. Best of luck to you two.

Me and my brother will be a bad sample for the Co DM study. We are brothers and spend hours talking on Skype anyway. Our relationship is different than that between unrelated people, I think.

I've done this once and it worked out fairly well but the DM and I were able to converse in google talk/hangout text to confer and work together on ideas. Also he had typed up a reference sheet for me to use for ideas and the direction he was heading for with the group. So it worked out pretty well.

I think this could work if you had one DM that handled combat, and the other the story (the stuff between the combat). That would take a well matched pair: I know DMs that love the mechanics of combat, and do it well, but don't put much into their storyline. I'm the other way around.

No matter what, it would take a well-coordinated effort.