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Chalk me up as someone else interested in a different handling of passage of time. In DWRP terms, though, unless you're talking about a game with less than fifteen characters, that's probably going to be a slow time ratio rather than tabletop-style time handling.

I personally think that 1:1 time ratio is a major contributor to plot collapse into slice of life. For practical reasons, things can't get too important or fast-paced more than twice an OOC month -- once from mods, once from players -- but if plot stuff only happens once or twice an IC month, that leaves players with a lot of time to explain away. Essentially, 1:1 time ratio causes IC logistics to suffer, especially for characters who are both competent and wouldn't twiddle their thumbs and go kick back at the bar between things to react to. Because the combination of 1:1 time ratio and monthly cycles clashes with characters driving the plot, I feel that 1:1 is also partially, indirectly responsible for the tendency in games towards the regular use of events that happen to the characters, things they're meant to simply react to and cope with. In short, it's hard to do 1:1 and not be deprotagonizing.

On the other hand, if you go too slow, many players will start to get lazy. If you're going to have a slower time ratio at all, it needs to still be fast enough to stave off "I'll do it tomorrow" -- especially in the face of the pressures of 1:1 being almost everywhere. If the style is intended to be at all DWRPish, as opposed to forum-style like you cite or tabletop-style, it also needs to still be fast enough for player plots to be possible at all, since that's much of the appeal of the style. Finally, some people just plain refuse to deal with games that aren't 1:1 because they're too lazy to keep track of what day it is (though I think having a sticky post at the top of the comms that says what day it is and the weather and such would help).

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