With the Ghosts of Dathomir possibly making its way to the US (again...) I am thinking of transitioning as my groups primary forever-GM to a player who actually bought the book to run the module.
I am glad to experience playing as a PC in this game as I have always been the GM spanning all the campaigns we have had since we started 3 years ago...however I have a few hang-ups about it.
Since I have been the only GM, I alone have had creative control over the direction of the story (to what extent a GM can have control) and giving that up gives me pause. The other factor is that the player who wants to GM has never GM'ed before in his life and has been a problem child in my game from very early on...but with communication and being friends outside of the game, we have been able to move through most of our issues in-game. Mostly he likes to min-max, played as a dark side evil Jedi among a group of light side Jedi and actively didn't try to redeem himself, has a very PC vs. GM mentality, plays to win, and up until the past year he has always tried to mess with me to throw a monkey wrench in my plans.
I am worried that even though he has played as a player all of these years he will revert to his player mindset and not that of a GM. I also know that he doesn't like reading that much, so I am concerned he is going to make rulings based on how he has thought I should (but usually didn't due to RAW). I am not sure he fully understands the concept of GM'ing and I don't want the group to end up either falling apart or getting killed because he makes questionable decisions as the GM that I could no longer overrule.
I may be thinking too much into this because I am very invested in the game and my players, but I think some of my concerns are valid. What do you think, am I being crazy and controlling? Should I just get us to a point to transition then hand over the reigns? Do I need to setup some guidelines before I pass it off?