Magic for Everyone!

I knew that magic was going to be either a skill for all sims to learn or confined to a new life state, and when those are the only two options, I'll always go with the latter because I wouldn't want everyone and their mother to accidentally become witches. It would be best if we could just have occult hybrids like in TS2, but alas, the game is already buggy enough as it is. I would have loved to have at least one supersim with magic, vampire, alien and mermaid powers combined!

"Amavari;c-17231125" wrote:
Which is great... on PC
But not everyone plays on PC
All console players would have it the "pray it doesn't break my game" cheats

Not all PC players want to use mods either, why is that always the go to answer when questions arise ?

there will likely be a mod for it

Which is great... on PC
But not everyone plays on PC
All console players would have it the "pray it doesn't break my game" cheats

Although I had plot points too, that required my Sorcerer sim at the end of his "Humanity" to also become Daemon, (Vampire).

Like I wondered what would happen if a Vampire did Feed off of, or try to turn a Spellcaster. Could the vampire drain the Spellcaster of the magic in their blood and absorb it, or transfer it to another? That was my hope for a convoluted way to make hybrids.

Or something to do with scientists, a mad scientist trying to use science create an ultimate Hybrid, a chimera of sorts.
they'll need a strong Human specimen, a blank canvas to experiment on.
and inject Spell caster Plasma, Essence of Vampire, Werewolf Plasma, Mermaid Plasma etc.

Since it's a Battle between Supernatural and Natural Evolution, doing this runs the risk of the sim successfully turning into a Chimera, or Dying.
Maybe sims with a Higher fitness skill or something will have a higher success rate to endure the Natural to Supernatural Evolution.

But I'm okay with it being a Life State, To me it makes perfect sense, even if magic had been both a Life State and a Skill that wasn't exclusive to the Life state. Those who acquire the magic skill Shouldn't be able to reach the full spell casting potential the Life state can.
they should be only be able to cover the basics...

In my story there's a chapter where My sim parents Trent and Julia King Just got married. Julia is a Sorceress and Trent is human. and when they move in together and they unpack Trent discovers her Spell book and a box of her potions, curses and enchantments. Trent, Being the slightly curious, but his Detective side kicks in, he feels he should be knowledgeable when it comes to breaking spells, enchantments, and curses and all that. Julia agrees, and so they take a break from unpacking and Delve into some magic together. Julia shows and teaches him how Enchantments and potions are made, and what it really takes, In order to break an enchantment you need to know what created the enchantment, same with potions and curses all that jazz. So Trent can't and doesn't do magic, so he's basically building his lore Skill, and able to use magical objects his wife has obtained over the past few centuries. but because She is teaching him I don't want him to be a spell caster. So that's why I think it's good He can have knowledge of Magic but can't perform magic.

I suppose that it was unrealistic of me to think that they'd find a way to make it so that every type of sim already in the game would be able to become a spellcaster, say by unlocking a button on the bar the way you do with fame or something similar

Especially with a slogan like "become the spellcaster you were owl-ways meant to be!" getting thrown around, implying that your sim could become a spellcaster rather than your human or spellcaster could become a spellcaster

Honestly I'd be satisfied enough if I could just keep my characters aesthetic, the pointy ears and fangs she normally has, as much as I'd hate losing her powers.

Though then there are my significantly less human looking vampire sims, I have my own absurdly evil dark lord sim all set up, but he won't be able to use magic

I guess we'll see what's available.. I wasn't really expecting much, but really... there's no way they couldn't have found a way to do two life states in spite of saying "no sim can handle it" because you can do it with cheats, literally all they'd have to do is make it less buggy

@pinkish its always the easy answer, when in doubt use mods. It's amazing what the modding community comes up with honestly, I've never really used any of them besides to get a few more star wars characters (Ahsoka) into my pc game but yeah.. not everyone wants to do that sort of thing.

For me.. my computer is a toaster, I usually play on the ps4, so no mods here.