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[LordSlowpoke]

A square is as big as the amount of demons in a given world.
With each demon being exactly one centimeter.

[BubbaBrown]

So it's somewhat like quantum mechanics...  Indeterminable unless observed. 

[PencilinHand]

So it's somewhat like quantum mechanics...  Indeterminable unless observed.

Yup, the cubic urist does seem to abide by quantum mechanics more than Newtonian mechanics.

Large enough to hold a hundred dragons, so long as 99 of them are lying down.

This actual is from the mouth of Toady, and as far as I know is the last official word on the subject.

[Eric Blank]

What if the tile never changes sizes? what if the objects change size in relation to the sizes of all the other objects in the square? Then the most voluminous objects' greatest dimension becomes 90% as big as the available space. A collossus in your hall is as tall as your average ceiling, and any dwarf that attempts to stand in the same space is shrunk down to as much or less the size of a shrew.

[They Got Leader]

Maybe we are all looking at this in the wrong perspective. No one ever said that these things are all the same size as it were in our world. Maybe the square is small, but you can only see one creature at a time, in the meantime they all move through a dimension, but use a placeholder for appearance?

[Lmaoboat]

They live in a world of inexplicable geometries and inconstant space. Why do you think dwarves go insane so easily?

[Ghavrel]

They live in a world of inexplicable geometries and inconstant space. Why do you think dwarves go insane so easily?

So easily? I've had dwarfs who have lost their children, spouse, and dearest friends to unspeakable creatures from the Pit and are freaking ECSTATIC because of their posh dining quarters.

These creatures have a mental resolve so firm it borders on the insane.

[Radivnal]

These creatures have a mental resolve so firm it borders on the insane.

They're so sane it's...insane?...wait...wha-?

>.<

[Laiska]

A square if tall enough to hold a 10-square wide bridge in a upright position inside a 1z cave, and short enough to allow one stone to make a impassable wall. 

[betamax]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the D&D definition of a square being 5' by 5'

[ungulateman]

Even D&D screws up there - an adult dragon is 2 squares x 2 squares, yet is described as being the size of an elephant.

Elephants are bigger than that, people. Some people are nearly that tall.

[Kode527]

Well... I think you can raise full sized drawbridge just in 1 tile height hall.

[Blargityblarg]

My preferred explanation is that all these worlds actually take place on the constantly shifting and warping surface of Cthulhu's eyes, and that dwarves are actually aquatic demon ticks.

[nekoexmachina]

I've always thought of it as one cubic urist

Sounds awesome

[runiq]