The following is a quick overview and summary of ER’s House Rules.

Game Time

ER runs on a fixed-time system. Characters proceed together along the same in-game timeline day by day.

Of course, different players’ posting schedules and writing speeds mean we don’t all progress at the same pace. Nevertheless, STs and players do their best to keep all scenes within six hours of one another. Exceptions are scenes played out in Downtime threads.

Downtime scenes take …