Concept: old-school, high-lethality, adversarial, dungeon-crawling TTRPG with miniatures moulded from play-doh, in the vein of Necromolds. When your character dies, the DM gets to smush them into extra-dangerous monsters. When the party runs out of loose play-doh to cast new party members, they have to retreat and their assault on the dungeon fails. Different classes are balanced by literally having bigger moulds that take a bigger volume of clay to cast, and thus 'wager' more of the party's limited resource to put into play.
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in reply to @bruno's post:
I feel like there was a boardgame like this in the 90's. At least one. And not just the official play-doh one.
I want to say the same thing, although it might have been a one-off article in something like SJG's Pyramid magazine? I remember a miniatures wargame using homemade clay models, where stats were based on things like the size of the model, the number of legs and arms it had, etc.
There were definitely board games that used play-doh molds, yes, in the 90s; Necromolds are an explicit throwback to those. But I can't find a reference to what they were called!
This'll drive me nuts, but there's no functional way to look things like this up anymore. Used to be tripping over the smallest details of pop-culture minutia, and now it's wall to wall advertisements. Damn SEO!