When I wake up in the mornings, on average, I'm the first one to wake up, and for a good while I will be the only person in the house who is awake, until maybe 2 PM or so because everyone in our house is a very heavy sleeper, myself included on most days.
For whatever reason, and my mother and Sophia are just as puzzled at this, Maddog likes to sleep downstairs on the couch; none of us know why. Sometimes he sleeps upstairs but mostly it's the couch. I guess he just likes the extra space? IDK.
Anyway. So, as many people can agree, when it's first thing in the morning, nobody likes hearing constant noise that will probably wake them up if it keeps happening. So, to be respectful of that, I like to hang out upstairs in my room until everyone's awake. The dilemma I'm facing? Because house rules state that Maddog's PS4 and his gaming laptop are to remain downstairs at all times, obviously this means I don't have access to our main library of games we have (read: all four of us are gamers and we have spent basically our whole lives fighting boredom with video games... Honestly I'm not really proud of that kind of habit but I have found alternative entertainment options that I do enjoy., that's a different story though.)
So what does hyper-intelligent, nearly-IQ-of-possibly 280 little ol' Uber Scout do when he faces a problem like this? Simple; I grab some graphing paper, a pencil, a whole bag of RPG dice, and the smallest objects I can find that can somehow fit into those tiny little squares in some way, I write some quick, easy to understand rules that don't take long, and I run a little 5-10 minute dungeon that looks like the game NetHack on my graphing paper!
Now, here's where my problem begins....
Obviously it would be really difficult to move my courageous, heroic @ symbol around the paper when in fact he is nothing but a tiny pencil drawing, the same being said for the other monsters that roam whatever I sketch up. At first I had a tiny "eureka" moment because I remembered I have three D&d miniatures that Maddog got me for Christmas last year. I tried to put my Rogue miniature at the beginning, when I saw that the base of the figurine takes up a whole 3x3 space on the paper. So then I thought, and I was like, wait, I have some gemstones I also got as a Christmas present last year! Maybe they're small enough to fit... Nope, not quite. They juuuust barely take up a smidgen less space than my Rogue miniature, but it's still a hair too much. That's when it hit me like a ton of bricks: chess pieces!! I'm a genius! And believe it or not, despite still taking up a 2x2 square of space on the paper, I managed to figure out how to adapt everything to fit closely enough to an accurate replica of Nethack (can you tell I've recently become a fan of that game yet?
) and here it is: Instead of drawing the dungeon the "traditional D&d" fashion (eg. One square on the grid is one space a PC occupies), I just scale up the proportions of the walkable spaces to one extra square, so that each chess piece can easily fit in their own 2x2 space, which counts as one tile!
PHEW! Okay, I just want to say, I am really sorry that this post takes up the whole resolution of your screen and then some, but I wanted to make sure the details were fully understandable so *somebody* here could help me because Google is absolutely atrocious at giving me answers to stuff like this. Second, I know it seems like I just answered my own question here, but the point I was getting to with this was, what exactly kind of item could I use that will actually fit in 1 grid square somehow? I literally don't have any ideas what I could use :/
TL;DR: I made NetHack/Angband on graphing paper but everything I have is too big help pls thank
For whatever reason, and my mother and Sophia are just as puzzled at this, Maddog likes to sleep downstairs on the couch; none of us know why. Sometimes he sleeps upstairs but mostly it's the couch. I guess he just likes the extra space? IDK.
Anyway. So, as many people can agree, when it's first thing in the morning, nobody likes hearing constant noise that will probably wake them up if it keeps happening. So, to be respectful of that, I like to hang out upstairs in my room until everyone's awake. The dilemma I'm facing? Because house rules state that Maddog's PS4 and his gaming laptop are to remain downstairs at all times, obviously this means I don't have access to our main library of games we have (read: all four of us are gamers and we have spent basically our whole lives fighting boredom with video games... Honestly I'm not really proud of that kind of habit but I have found alternative entertainment options that I do enjoy., that's a different story though.)
So what does hyper-intelligent, nearly-IQ-of-possibly 280 little ol' Uber Scout do when he faces a problem like this? Simple; I grab some graphing paper, a pencil, a whole bag of RPG dice, and the smallest objects I can find that can somehow fit into those tiny little squares in some way, I write some quick, easy to understand rules that don't take long, and I run a little 5-10 minute dungeon that looks like the game NetHack on my graphing paper!
Now, here's where my problem begins....
Obviously it would be really difficult to move my courageous, heroic @ symbol around the paper when in fact he is nothing but a tiny pencil drawing, the same being said for the other monsters that roam whatever I sketch up. At first I had a tiny "eureka" moment because I remembered I have three D&d miniatures that Maddog got me for Christmas last year. I tried to put my Rogue miniature at the beginning, when I saw that the base of the figurine takes up a whole 3x3 space on the paper. So then I thought, and I was like, wait, I have some gemstones I also got as a Christmas present last year! Maybe they're small enough to fit... Nope, not quite. They juuuust barely take up a smidgen less space than my Rogue miniature, but it's still a hair too much. That's when it hit me like a ton of bricks: chess pieces!! I'm a genius! And believe it or not, despite still taking up a 2x2 square of space on the paper, I managed to figure out how to adapt everything to fit closely enough to an accurate replica of Nethack (can you tell I've recently become a fan of that game yet?
) and here it is: Instead of drawing the dungeon the "traditional D&d" fashion (eg. One square on the grid is one space a PC occupies), I just scale up the proportions of the walkable spaces to one extra square, so that each chess piece can easily fit in their own 2x2 space, which counts as one tile!PHEW! Okay, I just want to say, I am really sorry that this post takes up the whole resolution of your screen and then some, but I wanted to make sure the details were fully understandable so *somebody* here could help me because Google is absolutely atrocious at giving me answers to stuff like this. Second, I know it seems like I just answered my own question here, but the point I was getting to with this was, what exactly kind of item could I use that will actually fit in 1 grid square somehow? I literally don't have any ideas what I could use :/
TL;DR: I made NetHack/Angband on graphing paper but everything I have is too big help pls thank
