Lanefan
Victoria Rules
That 1:1 correlation between player and character downtime was something that, I suspect, existed only in Gary Gygax's mind.In 1E I would say there was a stronghold pillar in high level play as characters got a keep or church or thieves guild etc to run.
I would also argue that "downtime" was not a traditional pillar in D&D as there originally was a 1:1 correlation between real down time and in-game down time and if you were not playing then your characters were either sleeping in the dungeon or on "downtime" doing nothing except spending gold and healing.
I don't know of anyone else who ever used that.