[quote=@Ellri]
That rabbit hole is mighty interesting. Till it gets charted out, it would still be useful to be able to tag others as GM too.

We'd still suggest that permitting co-GMs to edit the RP's first three posts (first IC, first OoC, first CS) would be a very good start on such a system.
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Good idea.

I think here is where the roleplay system begins diverging from the topic system. Even these baby steps start pulling away from the topic system.

For example, the naive approach would be to require GM(s) to make the first post in each tab. But that's obviously a pointlessly rigid constraint.

One solution is to auto-create the first post of the three tabs when a roleplay is created. And that first post is a special wiki-style post slash info panel reserved for reference material and such. And the thing is that the GM and delegated Co-GMs can edit those special posts since they're for general information.

If the GM(s) have nothing to say in a tab's special post, it's simply left blank and stays out of the way (doesn't show up). It's just an optional organization feature that many roleplays don't need, just like Co-GMs.

- The special post in the Char tab could be a character sheet template and some character requirements/rules. The actual posts would be the character sheets and discussion related to them.
- The special post in the IC tab could be the Roleplay's intro and/or an updated inventory of what's happening in the roleplay. The actual posts that follow would be the, of course, the IC posts.
- The special post in the OOC tab could be some notes about how to join the roleplay, the overall plans, etc.

Not technically difficult to implement or conceptually lofty, just a mild improvement over the current system.