6 years ago

"Must-have"s for Realm of Magic + Ideas

Hi guys! I'm super excited for the new Magic pack and, being somewhat disappointed with mermaids, I do hope they make it better for Witches.

I want to add, that Vampires pack is amazing, it is exceptionally well done and thorough! I REALLY hope Sim develops will put as much research and dedication to Witches as much as they did with Vampires. Truly my favorite pack I'm every aspect.

To avoid disappointments, and provide our ideas, I decided to make a list of MUST HAVEs:

1. Skill tree with different Elemental magic / good vs evil / etc magic. Gives Witches variety and can be build specifically to taste, like Vampires, but without weaknesses.
2. Broom flying. Make it! Please.
3. Alchemy, self explanatory.
4. Robes and Witchy clothes (Medieval and/or Victorian style)
5. Dragons! I love baby dragons from Sims 1, so cute and dangerous. Perhaps they can be done like Dolphins, but I hope they dont dissapeared elsewhere, and stay in fireplace as sleeping place.
6. Fun and interesting spells. Magical duels, cool animation, silly spells too.
7. New magical career (astronomer / tarot reader / astrologist / crystal ball gazing, etc)
8. Lunar calendar (with eclipses, blue moon, blood moon! And telescope and astronomy charts!)
9. Familiars (cats + owl/raven/Phoenix in some bird cage)
10. SPIRAL STAIRCASES!! We need those. Also I want to build a tower and need spiral staircase to lead to tower's chamber with wizard living there.
11. Unlockable secret lot, something magical and exciting! Mermaids rabbit hole cave and diving is just so underwhelming and plain disappointing.
12. A new world! With 6-9 lots please! It's a realm for a reason, we cant have magical sims waltzing world-less around like poor magic hobos. Nah ah.
13. Magic wise, as some suggested, needs to be fire, ice, water, wind, spark, earth, life, death, curses, healings, and also fun spells (like classic frog ones, cleaning, Etc)
14. Own tombstones and new Graveyard location! Evil witches can perform spells there and maybe raise the dead, or atleast do spooky stuff.
15. Cauldron for potions and spells. @ravenspit for idea. They are a classic and fun! Witch without a cauldron is a boring/tasteless witch.
16. Curses! I know I mentioned them earlier, but lemmie clarify: throughout centuries people talk of witches with fear due to curses they put on others. So, we must have some kind of curses. Like random sickness on sim, frog, sleep spells, etc. With scared new emotion! Or atleast animation and moodlet of being afraid. And healing witches exist too. Good ones who dispell the curses and heal others.
17. Group Witch dance for bonfires, rituals, grave dances, etc. Sounds awesome! Great idea. Witch coven club that dances by fire/ritual in the night, worshipping the Moon and Stars. So cool! Mystical.
18. Ouja board @DreamCytcher idea sounds great! Spooky way to play with spirits, sims can ask questions and do scared and frightened animations, and if theres a ghost in room it answers and makes board float ominously and if you play as a ghost you get some prank options. Hehe
19. Weather spells! @StarlitDown idea. Also NEW weather type! Like thick fog, or raining frogs! I've known witches, real, who know how to control the weather. Weirdest "proof" test I had was when she made hail, rain, snow, thunder, and lightning within like an hour. So cool!
20. Beautiful bookcases, stacks of tomes, and magic books. Also, bookcase secret door! Yusss, who doesnt want a secret magical lair hidden behind the bookcase?
21.

Help me add some on the list you guys!
Thank you all for your ideas, I'll try to add names of who participated when I have time.

Jaystar420
6 years ago
"Angellulu;d-961447" wrote:
Hi guys! I'm super excited for the new Magic pack and, being somewhat disappointed with mermaids, I do hope they make it better for Witches.

So I decided to make a list of MUST HAVEs:

1. Skill tree with different Elemental magic / good vs evil / etc magic. Gives Witches variety and can be build specifically to taste, like Vampires, but without weaknesses.
2. Broom flying. Make it! Please.
3. Alchemy, self explanatory.
4. Robes and Witchy clothes (Medieval and/or Victorian style)
5. Dragons! I love baby dragons from Sims 1, so cute and dangerous.
6. Fun and interesting spells.
7. New magical career (astronomer / tarot reader / astrologist / etc)
8. Lunar calendar (with eclipses, blue moon, blood moon!)
9. Familiars (cats + owl/raven/Phoenix in some bird cage)
10. SPIRAL STAIRCASES!! We need those. Also I want to build a tower and need spiral staircase to lead to tower's chamber with wizard living there.

Help me add some on the list you guys!

I love dragons so much but personally I think they should get their own pack dedicated to them and it should be in a medieval setting and have customizable dragons, and have them be real pets this time and not just inanimate objects and don't make them monster sized but they should at least be as tall as a large horse or dog. Give dragons different elements as well varying from Fire, Ice, Electricity, Nature and Darkness (Evil) Also they should save a lunar cycle for a werewolf pack as it makes most sense, not saying the moon can't be incorporated with other life states but would add a lot.

I think making witches animal shapeshifters is a wonderful idea! they can vary from owl's or raven's and fly similar to vampire bats.

Yes please give us any magical or paranormal career, I'd take anything associated with supernatural.

Also make witches and fairies have magic based elements similar to dragons I talked about.
WXWMusic
6 years ago
I had this idea just now, sims can be playing with the ouija board.

It's like the Don't Wake Up The Llama (I hope I'm right) game where there's a table with four slots to put chairs. The sims that are playing ouija board can Summon The Dead, done by the action where a ghost sim jumps into the sim who summoned it. Once this is done, the other sims can ask the ghost about things from how's my luck today, to how did you die. When the game is done, just ask the ghost to leave, and everything becomes normal again.
Aangellulu
6 years ago
"DreamCytcher;c-17128220" wrote:
I had this idea just now, sims can be playing with the ouija board.

It's like the Don't Wake Up The Llama (I hope I'm right) game where there's a table with four slots to put chairs. The sims that are playing ouija board can Summon The Dead, done by the action where a ghost sim jumps into the sim who summoned it. Once this is done, the other sims can ask the ghost about things from how's my luck today, to how did you die. When the game is done, just ask the ghost to leave, and everything becomes normal again.

Oh I live that idea! Can give Sims the spooked moodlet snd make them all scared, and ghost can scare them and make lights flicker xD ouja board can like jump and shake on table
amber_ilumire
Seasoned Vanguard
6 years ago
Definitely a skill tree for sure! I’d love an astrology/tarot career or even just as a skill considering there haven’t really been new careers in game packs before.

I think they could really be an interesting life state if you could focus on becoming different types of witches, each specialising in certain spells that have to be unlocked depending on which route you choose to take. Kitchen witches, green witches, witches who have a talent for divination or mischief or using necromancy to summon ghosts etc.
starlitdown
6 years ago
> @amber_ilumire said:
> Definitely a skill tree for sure! I’d love an astrology/tarot career or even just as a skill considering there haven’t really been new careers in game packs before.
>
> I think they could really be an interesting life state if you could focus on becoming different types of witches, each specialising in certain spells that have to be unlocked depending on which route you choose to take. Kitchen witches, green witches, witches who have a talent for divination or mischief or using necromancy to summon ghosts etc.

I love the astrology/tarot career idea! :D
GrumpyGlowfish
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
"Angellulu;d-961447" wrote:
1. Skill tree with different Elemental magic / good vs evil / etc magic. Gives Witches variety and can be build specifically to taste, like Vampires, but without weaknesses.
2. Broom flying. Make it! Please.
3. Alchemy, self explanatory.
4. Robes and Witchy clothes (Medieval and/or Victorian style)
5. Dragons! I love baby dragons from Sims 1, so cute and dangerous.
6. Fun and interesting spells.
7. New magical career (astronomer / tarot reader / astrologist / etc)
8. Lunar calendar (with eclipses, blue moon, blood moon!)
9. Familiars (cats + owl/raven/Phoenix in some bird cage)
10. SPIRAL STAIRCASES!! We need those. Also I want to build a tower and need spiral staircase to lead to tower's chamber with wizard living there.

I agree with everything you say, but especially the first point! TS4 gave us the best vampires so far, but I want witches to be even better and more diverse, not just good and evil. For example, I want my Elsa to manipulate snow and ice, but not necessarily bring back the dead and control zombies - that's the kind of power the Grim Reaper's child should have. I can imagine so many different branches, like elemental, lunar, love, karma, time, and death magic, to name a few. And then I may want a super witch who has mastered them all.

Buuut since this is "only" a game pack, I know I'm setting my expectations too high. There will probably be one magic skill exclusive to witches that encompasses everything, with a few additonal perks and quirks, and that's it. But yeah, that's really the most important MUST-HAVE for me, that not all witches are the same, and I also want a new magic world.
starlitdown
6 years ago
> @GrumpyGlowfish said:
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> ... and I also want a new magic world.

YAAAAAAS!!!! I know it has to be such a difficult task to add new worlds, especially when new features expand upon each one (like swimming and weather) but they are so much fun to get! Saving up enough magic coins in Sims 1 to buy a house in the magic world was one of my primary tasks in that game, lol.
ra7orrat
6 years ago
11. unicorns
12. cooking/brewing cauldron
13. new magical dancemoves/groupdance (imagine a couple of witches dancing arround a fire at midnight...the stuff of dreams)
14. a new world? I hope so, it is called REALM of magic after all...

and so much more, much, much more...
I am sure we won't get everything we could wish for, but I am pretty hopefull about this one judging by how well done the vampires are and they were "just" a GP too.
Aangellulu
6 years ago
"RavenSpit;c-17131306" wrote:
11. unicorns
12. cooking/brewing cauldron
13. new magical dancemoves/groupdance (imagine a couple of witches dancing arround a fire at midnight...the stuff of dreams)
14. a new world? I hope so, it is called REALM of magic after all...

and so much more, much, much more...
I am sure we won't get everything we could wish for, but I am pretty hopefull about this one judging by how well done the vampires are and they were "just" a GP too.

I love the ideas! Definitely need some cool witchy group dances for ritual and fun purposes. Unicorns may not fit in though, unless they also add horses and that who knows when will happen (if ever). I'd love to make a coven of witches to gather on moon lit nights and dance around bonfire/ritual altar :smiley:
adrielee01
6 years ago
yess love all these ideas- I would love to see a lot of interaction, where you have to gather ingredients for potions or spells and then cast them at a certain time of day or at a certain place. Sometimes for more powerful spells, you need the help of other witches to gain more power for the spell.