Re: Player Poll: Hiding GMPCs as PCs
I can't answer this as a co-GM...the one game in which I was co-GM, the GM disappeared (it wasn't totally unexpected...he'd been having health issues, which was the reason for a co-GM in the first place), and I took over. Since nobody had been informed it was me taking over, and to avoid the perception that the game was in danger of dying, I kept my GM persona and my character presented as separate entities.
As a player, however, I really don't care. The face-to-face games I've played in for most of my life had GMPCs in them, and they were a regular part of the group...they didn't dominate the game, but likewise, the GM gave them their moments in the spotlight, just like everyone else's characters. Truth be told, when I'm in a game on here, I don't pay much attention to whether or not the characters I'm in the scene with belong to the GM, or they're NPCs, or they belong to other players. It's pretty much all the same, to me.