Necromolds: If Warhammer was made out of Play-Doh...

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[@QuestingBeast]

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[@loid-vn9sy]

so this is basically a knock off dungeons and dragons

[@QuestingBeast]

@@loid-vn9sy No it's not an RPG. Unless you want it to be...

[@BahamutDX]

@@QuestingBeast Everything can be an RPG if you try hard enough :D

[@narcozero8410]

The « you get a set amount of clay » balancing is a stroke of genius game design.

[@narcozero8410]

@@qromaxwell6548 what do you mean ? The clay is contained in the game ?

[@dmarsub]

Units balanced by volume

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

​​@@qromaxwell6548 "use substitute pieces" is still better than "use our overpriced minis and only our overpriced minis" At least as long as it has rules for the lower and upper limits of size for the units.

[@PanoptesDreams]

Imma start scooping out the insides

[@frogmouth2]

Theo only issue is when the clay ages… or god forbid the leftover residue in the books mixes with the other team’s clay.

[@cronk8219]

I feel like I should be seeing some early 2000's style toy commercials with kids going "wooOOOAGHHHHH" for this, looks great!

[@Wesley_Youre_a_Rabbit]

Omg it does ring the nostalgia bell. With stuff like scannerz and pox

[@QuestingBeast]

The creator actually made some commercials like that

[@thorinpeterson6282]

​@@Wesley_Youre_a_RabbitDude the Scannerz commercial was so hype

[@TheGreenKnight500]

This is DEFINITELY a 90's or 2000's style toy. It just has that wargaming complexity mixed into it. If the people who made this get an advertising budget, they really need to lean into that old-school commercial look.

[@budbudley]

"Awesome!" "You got Necro in my mold!"

[@TheManyVoicesVA]

This is a game where it's even more necessary to keep "that guy" with cheeto fingers far, far away.

[@phaedruslive]

Nitrile gloves seem like a wise move.

[@TheManyVoicesVA]

@@phaedruslive That seems like a good idea for sure. Might be kind of annoying lol but its worth keeping the dough in good shape

[@ruolbu]

diy playdo is super cheap and easy. I'd say let the cheetos guy have fun xD

[@TheManyVoicesVA]

@@ruolbu youve never played the cheetos guy, I see. It's never fun. He doesnt just bring cheese on his fingers, but in his army as well.

[@asafoetidajones8181]

Nah this is THE game you let him play.

[@samplant9170]

there's a note in the rulebook at 5:40 that i absolutely love, note: young players can be very competitive and are still developing the skills to respectfully win or lose. Rewarding a loss by letting the player smash their own monster helps emotionally balance the defeat. Once ready, try letting player smash each other's monsters as a reward for victory.

[@logangant7732]

I say eat your opponents models

[@devinward461]

​@@logangant7732 assert dominance

[@DoubleWhammy]

​@@logangant7732 Fondant miniatures could work.

[@likesflower]

that's a lovely bit of genuine wisdom

[@TheTuttle99]

​@@DoubleWhammyI think play doh works fine

[@tikazombie37]

I absolutely love when the board games incorporate the physical aspects of it into the game itself, it always makes me go "wait, you can do that with a game?"

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Honestly, this is like 6000 IQ shit

[@elroma7712]

And now I'm 9 years old in the body of a 29 year old.

[@asafoetidajones8181]

I've seen that movie. Don't do anything weird you might need to see a therapist about after.

[@drillerdev4624]

Same inner kid, even older shell

[@updfdrakkell143]

just wait till your a 10yr old in a 60 yr old body lol nothing changes😆

[@magitek_riding_imperial_witch]

This game is killing it with the Inhumanoids, TMNT, He-Man, Ghostbusters energy.

[@SchizoidPersonoid]

the molded champions are giving me flashbacks to Monster in My Pocket

[@MadSpaceWolfDiary]

Bit of creepy crawlies and that 90s monster look, board reminds me of the I spy or Waldo books

[@DtLS]

I seem to recall a game back in the 90s that used playdoh miniatures as game pieces, and at some point during gameplay you'd smash them with a stamp that had "Splat!" written on it.

[@JackPitmanNica]

I remember that game too! I think they were grapes or something

[@-o-dq7nd]

This game sounds familiar!

[@BelialCar]

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[@deerpoob]

Grape escape, it's basically a death race for grapes, there was a stomping foot, a saw, a roller, all kinds of nasty stuff, my brother had it xD

[@aggonzalezdc]

It was, perhaps as you might imagine, named "Splat!".

[@chummer2060]

I got the base set in the last Kickstarter. My 6 year old loves to play. It was actually really great for being ok with losing. The first time I smashed his monster he cried. Now when we play it's all laughs. We just taught my 68 year old dad to play, too. We're just on the basic rules, and it's so fun. Thanks for sharing this game on your channel!

[@updfdrakkell143]

Pops - my horny monster attacks! me - Its called horned dad.... Pops - I know what its called and for that my horny monster attacks you! - mom sitting to the side laughin her butt off

[@mid1429]

Honestly important for them to lern how to tolerate failure

[@chummer2060]

​@mid1429 I completely agree! He's becoming more resilient in other things because of stuff like this.

[@weirdguy564]

This has given my an idea to design and 3D print my own molds for Skeletons, Orcs, and Knights to make a One Page Rules game using Play-doh soldiers.

[@Rgoid]

You have got to share THAT idea!

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

do it anything to make GW angry is entertaining

[@weirdguy564]

@@Rgoid I could do it too. I know how to make 3D models (I have worked on video games like flight sims and a pirate MMO). It would not take a lot to make molds like this. I also own a Elegoo Mars 3D printer.

[@superspider64]

the fact that there's so much extra stuff to the game but almost all of it is completely optional is so good, you can make the game as complex or simple as you want

[@MekBoooooi]

Make em outta cookie dough so you can eat em when ya beat em!

[@AVspectre]

OoOoOoOoO!

[@AVspectre]

Sounds tasty! 😋

[@updfdrakkell143]

now i wana make a cookie army outa them

[@jaisummons2304]

Texas big rolls tastes like play dough flavor dough nut. Mead: Tastes like beeswax. CaveMan speech: Ra Ra Ra Ra Raaa, who Ra, Sha, laa ha ha Ra. IQ: 50 is the minimum, 70 room temperature, 90 average, 240 max It's a bell curve Did I stick a fork in a outlet yes Was I tassed yes, flashlight tassed engine electric. Batchelor programmer, wire technician, auto machinic, first aid knowledge. Associates business. Redneck robotics Engineer I'm a unicorn I'm a specialists I'm special.

[@avo478]

erm, akshually, the CDC advises...

[@bearnaff9387]

Zeb Cook would love this so much. He made the original Play-do-based miniature(?) strategy game, Clay-o-Rama, which was released and supplemented in Dragon Magazine. No molds in his version, you got one combatant made by hand, and could use up to half your clay to make missiles for ranged attacks against other heroes.

[@stickjohnny]

I would have had so much fun with this when i was a kid. At least you don't have to spend an arm and a leg on minatures and half a decade painting it all.

[@LuciusDidus]

If only

[@dreamwolf7302]

Friend of mine was hard up for cash, but hooked on this game. You can judge me all you like, but he needed 40 figures, minimum, to join the group he was trying to get into, to learn, so i had him buy some old second hand figures, made some molds with high heat tolerant silicone, and made him the 40 figures, from 5 originals, using aluminum from melted down soda cans.

[@morpheusgreene2704]

as a judge i have determined that you are a badass for helping your friend out. warhammer gatekeepers can seethe all they like.

[@SledgePainterArt]

Warhammer has been increasingly aggressive towards their own audience and not exactly welcoming anymore to new players to the fandom. At this point I say you're more the true hobbiest than they are. You deserve an award for that kind of dedication to the game and your friendship.

[@dreamwolf7302]

@@SledgePainterArt I honestly dont even play it myself, although i friggin love the lore. I'm a D&D GM, so i make all my own minis, because fuck paying 8.99 for a single goblin that looks like it was spat out by a 3D printer that needs a Viagra Prescription.

[@TheGreenKnight500]

I never would have thought of playdough wargaming

[@MulryTime]

The quickstart rules for this game are great for kids, and you can always use modeling clay if you want some more permanent versions of the minis.

[@mid1429]

Not sure that would work with the whole smashing mechanic but would be cool to paint and display them although they may come out wird because clay is not as thick

[@octogames6823]

$300 is a lot for that. Super cool idea though. I see this being a fun mini game. The creators do know about 3D printers so they should offer an STL version of this.

[@ruolbu]

Amazing! Thanks so much. I've been tinkering with EXACTLY this concept by myself for a while now and seeing a commercial and well working product really delights me.

[@howirunit2033]

Look up Clay-O-Rama printed in dragon back in the day. Essentially the same game without the mold. You also use what is in your Playdoh container for missiles.

[@Bobyoudontneeemyname]

This game was great, rules are still out there if you poke around.

[@seandevine3695]

Except Clay-o-Rama wasn’t a tactical skirmish game, it was more like a kaiju battler. So even more fun.

[@KnownAsKenji]

Dragon was great, I loved when they had papercraft building sets or all-inclusive custom board games straight in the magazine. Boodles was one of my favorites, simple but good. This was as a kid who was reading their parents stuff, but it was still cool stuff.

[@JackPitmanNica]

I remember a game as a kid where you had some clay figures and you had to get through an obstacles course by rolling dice, and there were these like traps that squished and cut up your clay figure, it was really fun and immersive

[@Suleiman212]

Grape Escape, have an old copy that I played with my kids, that's immediately what I thought of too.

[@JackPitmanNica]

@@Suleiman212 Thats it ! ! !

[@ethangrant5061]

Id love this concept for just batch making miniatures, rough but noticeable representations of goblins and orcs and such. I think ive seen something similar for old school warhammer space marines

[@lilietto1]

I think that if you're not playing with the clay as a part of the game, buying a resin (or even fdm, with some loss in quality) 3d printer, would be more beneficial in the long term. And you could even buy a 3d printer to make the molds for your clay, if that's what you really like ^^

[@drillerdev4624]

This is the most 90's game ever I've toyed with the idea of a "build your own army" game for a looong time, but my approach geared towards origami. While minis molds are an external tool you'd need, it certainly makes it easier and faster, and makes more sense as a product (as opposed to a passion project). And, as others have pointed out, you could make permanent minis out of it with stuff like polimer clay, and it'd be cool to see the molds that 3d makers could make based on the concept. The call to arms expansion is just icing on the cake.

[@bizzy5439]

The design and mechanics put into this are beautifully done

[@McLainOppy]

Playdough + Ral Partha = Necromolds

[@kevingooley9628]

Ral Parta were great. And Grenadier miniatures.

[@matthewdancz9152]

There is honestly nothing like using destructible mini figures made of play dough that can be remolded after the gaming session, and if you want more permanent figurines use clay and dry them, or get fancy with carbon fiber. This is the direction board gaming should go.

[@ccggenius]

Given the addition of champions I'd argue Warmachine is a more apt comparison than Warhammer. Saw this game with the original Kickstarter and was intrigued but ultimately found it to be not quite enough game for me. I'm intrigued by what the expansions offer, though probably not enough to make space on the shelf. Also, IIRC the signet rings are blind-boxed (outside the ones in the starter box). There's A LOT of different shapes in different colors. One thing to note: This game is decidedly NOT future-proofed. The idea is you can just use a standard can of Play-doh which... the second Hasbro decides to shrinkflate the cans the game balance gets thrown off.

[@gordoncooper2481]

This reminds me of Monster Squash from Tri Tac Games back in the 1980s. You sculpted a monster from clay or Play-Do, and its abilities were based on what you sculpted. Any monster that was defeated would be physically squashed by the victorious player.

[@HellishSpoon]

Now this i imagine would make me feel like a kid again, i get to physically crush board pieces and thats just fun

[@Pizza_Crusader]

Really smart in every way perfect balance no matter what infinite MI others without long creation times no need to worry about breaking miniatures and you get to therapudicaly smoosh the enemys

[@chihuahuajedi]

Thank you so much for making this video! I bought Necromolds as a result, and my kids and I are having a blast! Wargaming is so fun but usually the cost is so prohibitive, I had given up on diving in with my kids. This eliminates all the accessibility problems and really opens up the genre in a way I haven't seen since Heroscape. Plus the gameplay is mechanically solid to boot! There's lots of things to help players not in the lead so it rarely devolves into that situation lots of games have where "you know you're going to lose but gotta keep playing to watch it happen". It really keeps the game interesting!

[@NinjaNakabim]

I'm a necromolds backer from the original launch and subsequent stuff, and my family absolutely loves it. Its an incredible game, and the creator is a awesome down to earth dude.

[@kalebtrumbly7645]

Someone already mentioned clay-o-Rama from dragon magazine back in the day. Love the mold aspect of the game though. Looks like a blast to play

[@yvastel8153]

The whole concept of molding clay as a table top figure is incredibly fascinating. I'd like to imagine if this had MtG's rules but land cards are they clay, creature cards are the molding tomes, and spells are cards, and all of them are on terrain like warhammer.

[@Wesley_Youre_a_Rabbit]

Now that you’ve reviewed it, we can’t afford to wait and buy it little by little, it will sell out in a matter of hours. Get it all ASAP!

[@avatar2xl]

I put this out in all my warhammer groups when the first trailer came out I thought it was an awesome idea and I’m glad they followed through

[@Moldytoast888]

I love the idea of having a necro manger character in a dnd game or something and using this to make your own army to fight

[@LoonyDoll]

Easily one of the coolest things I've seen in a while !

[@KrakDuk]

This is such a cute idea. Reminds me of the rouge hobby video where Louise made a space marine play doh mold

[@MrNobodyX3]

I love that it's as complex as you want it to be

[@TheUndeadslayer221]

Necromolds? Honestly a genius idea with how that works.

[@ElykMuablhats]

Back in the day I was at a Con and they had a playdough game, but you sculpted your mini yourself. It would then gain attributes based on that sculpt, for example speed was based on amount of legs or wheels, HP was based on amount of Dough used, and you could even use your dough allotment to make ranged weapons you literally threw at your opponent. Everyone also got a special ability, like tossing an adjacent opponent in the air (but must land on table), or take off your shoe and give the opponent a good smack. Good times man

[@Eener1000]

The idea and premise of this game is genius. There are some practical issues I can see but those are minor especially when you don't play it super serious

[@AdoringAdmirer]

Don't know if the designers will read this, but I actually clicked their link to see how it was priced, found that it was priced reasonably well except for the expansions where you basically only get like 2 more mold books for like 25 Dollars, which seems a bit steep for what it is. These should be much cheaper. Also, and this is perhaps the bigger point, I actually found myself clicking on a couple of the boxes, but the designs were so overly bright and convoluted with colors, shapes, figures, that I found myself losing interest and closing the tabs again, before I even really found out what I had clicked on. From a potential consumer's perspective, it takes actual effort to find out what you're getting out of a box. Sometimes, especially when it comes to design, less is more.

[@thecringeslayer4897]

thats really cool. my main pet peeve with warhammer is how darn expensive they are to make a whole army, might check these guys out.

[@conker13245]

I lovelovelove the summoning book mold concept and I have always loved the idea of play features incorporated into wargaming and I was fully expecting to hear about another late 90s niche toy concept i had just missed they have the design philosophy from that time down perfect

[@beafraidofinsectattack]

I saw a short of this before, thanks for elaborating on this awsome game 😊

[@MageSkeleton]

A long long time ago, there was a board game known as "Grape Escape!" and it made each player make use of (preferably) different colored play doh. And if you land on certain spaces (of which there were a good number of) your "clay grape" interacted with that thing causing your grape to suffer a "fatal alteration" though i don't remember the rules of the game and i don't remember what's supposed to happen if your "grape" was to go through more than one of these devices. And of course, no idea when or if you could "restore" your grapeman.

[@Draco-FishProductions]

This is one of the coolest ideas I've seen! I hope this game gets released in stores.

[@enigmaodell6806]

I love table top games that are physical. Tokens, items, miniatures, ect. What a brilliant little game.

[@dannydanny2789]

That's straight up the most creative wargame idea I've ever seen

[@im1fadedRob]

This is an absolutely brilliant take on tabletop war games! I'm jealous I didn't have something like this as a kid.

[@thedancingpikachu]

The molds remind me of a board game called like "splat" or something where you play as bugs running around the board, and your piece can get squished since it used clay like this.

[@Irgendwaslanges]

Wow such a great idea and design! Visually striking as well! On the topic of 'tabletop wargames getting weird' I as well have the impression people get very creative and weird lately: see 'gaslands:refueld' where you can take matchbox cars, or the whole '28' movement where you have games about fishing, hearding, turnips and a whole bunch of other non combat/conflict table top mimiatures games! Did you by chance stumble upon those as well?

[@DxSkeith]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in AGES. I'm sold.

[@KnownAsKenji]

Love this, because I would do a similar thing with Warhammer since I was a kid. My only exposure was the Fantasy PS1 games, I just sorta took those ideas and started to build my own units. It was modeling clay (a bit tough but doesn't dry) and they weren't detailed like this, just little tiny 'cones' that I mashed together into a square. Damage wasn't determined by dicerolls or a game guide, I'd just sort of squish things a bit or slice them with my fingernail and a squished enough character was dead. Amazingly fun for the time, spent hours and hours doing that. I'm sure Games Workshop wouldn't have liked what I was doing though. Bought some more clay a month or so ago since it was just $1.25 at a dollar store (funnily enough, much less than it cost in 1996), didn't play but I molded up some complete armies again. Felt good.

[@pzalterias5154]

So clever and original ! Good for storage too, same playdough for any army !

[@PetesDracolich]

This is so cool! There is a potion I came across that once it’s been consumed, the player vomits 1d8 ooze minions that obey your command! This has so many applications!

[@thedayidied]

Wow, this will.. forgive the pun.. break the mold on what it is to collect things from a game! Usually you'd be collecting figures, but in this case, I'd assume you would be collecting those grimoires, or modifiers. How interesting!!

[@bruisermachina13]

The signet smush look super fun and satisfying!

[@Volvary]

Ngl, this concept of using play-doh for figurines would be genius for running a DnD game. Need a mob to populate the grid, take a bit of play-doh, squish in a mold, trim off flashing, bam you have a new figurine. Done with the fight? Squish it back into the container.

[@shadow50011]

This feels way cooler than any of the Playdoh molds. I wish Playdoh had more games that used it like this

[@Cynidecia]

Child me would have adored this. Its very quaint.

[@AVspectre]

Adult me think it sounds fun and casual (with basic rules set). 😊

[@zindamor2629]

I really wanna try this game. Can't afford it. But wow.

[@xtremephylyp]

New Forge World models looking sick ngl

[@industrialpunk]

I have EVERYTHING from this game and me and my kids love it!

[@shadow_of_the_spirit]

that is so cool! i can't belive i did not think about this before.

[@ItzaJerm]

i hope to be able to order this whole collection in coming weeks

[@punishedbung4902]

This reminds me of the Board James episode where they play that playdough game Splat and bootsy eats all of the playdoh. My hungry ass couldn’t be allowed anywhere near this game.

[@fernandotrevinocastro1018]

"is a lot of rules to keep track of, am i missing some spell or ability?" dayum, so it is a wargame

[@brycevo]

This is all so awesome and neat

[@V4nillakid]

Very cool idea. I’m going to check this one out

[@kuraishinobi]

These would be a blast to play, and they would also be fantastic for Forbidden Psalm!

[@JustinLKraeer]

I love the concept. Two of my favorite games growing up were Grape-escape and Splat.

[@joppalowe3870]

The dice and symbols remind me of Dungeon Dice Monsters. I'm diggin it.

[@larsottersen3073]

Came here for the clay figures, stayed for the game. Sounds like a really fun try.

[@mrvaporiz]

You can expend a turn to eat a number of your opponent's molds, as many as you want per turn

[@b.lloydreese2030]

It looks awesome. I remember seeing this years ago

[@KiwiKJ]

This game is just oozing with pure genius (pun intended)

[@OrdinaryTrevor]

I'd love to see a playthrough/actual play of this game.

[@Wesley_Youre_a_Rabbit]

There’s a couple on the Necromolds KZbin channel

[@dancinswords]

This is genius on every level

[@Scaevola9449]

That mold spellbook looks ASTONISHINGLY like a Kamen Rider Saber book.

[@ninjor9800]

Had no idea this existed. So cool, and feels a lot easier to get into than Warhammer.

[@NaomeK40]

Squishing your opponent's minis is so fucking funny 😂

[@tripled2096]

this genuinely looks so fun

[@beafraidofinsectattack]

Truly a great family friendly game. Amazing design.

[@almostgoodvariant]

This is an insanely good idea, wow

[@samipso]

I don't play boardgames but literally destroying your enemy looks fun as heck.

[@heretictom]

Looks super fun!

[@seiko-yume470]

I think this would be a good hands-on twist to add to a DND game so you can have something aside from dice rolling, token moving, and writing

[@warwulf1889]

That is a brilliant idea.

[@AdrenalSnakeREX]

this game is definetly going into my wishlist

[@Silverdragon83X]

I love the idea and the 90s "Monsters in my pocket" aesthetics! Very cool game, especially for kids, but a bit expensive and I fear it is nothing that motivates players over time to play again! Still great idea!

[@jimmd68]

Kinda cool. There was an idea very much like this in the 80's.

[@NuttySquirrel_8]

What a fun concept!

[@G-Funk42]

I think I need this now for my kids. (And myself.)

[@AverageDrafter]

Hawaiian Punch game tech! I never thought I'd see it employed in this modern age.

[@Mr.RobotHead]

This look incredibly fun!

[@Vampshroom420]

This is sick as hell i love it