Natural and Magical Survival Challenge
Disclaimer: I never have created a challenge before, beyond just loosely giving myself challenges/goals. I feel there aren't enough occult based challenges or non-generational challenges. Occult abilities can basically make the game easier, so having a challenge to include occults to balance out difficulty is the premise. This is based on my playstyle with the perks, challenges, and goals I tend to have in mind. This challenge, however, is more strict than I usually play, so I haven't play tested it yet.
Sim types for this challenge:
+The Apothecary Enchanter Collector
+The Eccentric Scientist
+The Healer of Body and Heart
+The Mischievous Manipulator
+The Scavenger
+The Simple and Natural Lifestyle
+The Strange and Unusual
+The Survivalist
+The Traveling Virtuoso
Each Sim type is a different way to survive (with or without magic/enchanted help). Most of the types are encouraged selections, but can be customized to preference, and packs. As long as their Challenges/Goals are followed. You can have as many types as you want without duplicates.
Edit: Updated and Tweaks added as of March 19, 2026.
So I have done some play testing on (haven't been 100% to the challenge, but trying to keep to the challenge is rewarding enough, and some things were situational or ruined by autonomy anyways). I am enjoying it, I plan to do a non-playtesting file, and rotationally do each challenge! But in the meantime while testing I learn the limitations, and have been adjusting the google doc with updates (also since R&L came out has some updates, which really fleshed out, and made The Mischievous Manipulator, so much more fun! Dynasties also help with some narrowing skill/ideal based autonomy as well).
+The Apothecary Enchanter Collector
+The Mischievous Manipulator
+The Survivalist
If anyone was following the R&L Official Screen shot thread I have some screenshots of The Mischievous Manipulator. his romantic partner is The Apothecary Enchanter Collector. But I'll recap in the post. The Survivalist (I was doing in that same file but in a new save file I decided to play him solo and more in depth with plans of rotationally playing to the other challenges), not as much screenshots as it was originally meant as a test file.
