Taking turns as GM, I don't know why this is embarrassing. Options

[CircuitBoyBlue]

As irrational as it is, I've always been kind of embarrassed to bring this up with other gamers. But in most of the RPG groups I've been a part of, there hasn't been a fixed GM. Everyone in the group will have a character, and whoever has a good idea for a story runs the game that week. So right now, I'm one of the most frequent GMs of our group, but I also have a character named StreetGod. When I'm running, I come up with some reason StreetGod wouldn't be there to help out (luckily, he does a lot of drugs--it's less lucky while he's actually being played). This is because I kind of see it as "conflict of interest" to run your own character as an NPC, since as GM I have the power and incentive to fudge dice rolls that would normally splatter StreetGod's shaman-juice all over the wall. The sucky part is that the more I GM, the less karma I get, since my character sits out so often.

Anyway, this multi-GM system was just what I cut my teeth on in high school, where all of us knew each other. Once I left small-town Ohio and met other gamers, I got the impression that this was not the norm at all. I've gotten some very strange looks from other gamers when they find out that there's not a steady GM at my table.

Does anyone else do it like this?