I am not feeling the Charm Family.

"Simmify;c-17242676" wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but with the gallery and the literal thousands of very talented builders on there I never feel the need to use EA lots , unless I want to of course. I also builds things for myself when the mood strikes me.

As for the premades not all being beautiful, I think thats ok. Most people in real life aren't "beautiful", but merely average, unremarkable. I like sims with plain faces too. Makes them seem more like average people you see in real life. I even sometimes like peculiar looking sims, because it gives them character. Makes them seem like they have more of an interesting personality.

I never said I don't like ugly or Plain Jane townies, but the ones we get in Realm of Magic look like they were just randomly generated. They look like they have no effort put into them at all. It's the worst with the mischief Sage.

This is what was advertised vs. what we get in the game:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/590579149597573132/619994572491325480/image0.jpg

Also console players can't use the gallery. Easy replacement isn't an option for everyone. :c

"Sheepiling;c-17242718" wrote:

Also console players can't use the gallery. Easy replacement isn't an option for everyone. :c

As a console player, I’ve become quite adept (not to mention swift) with CAS full edit mode and the nuke button. I’ll spend as long as it takes to obliterate the fugly, characterless garbage that gets foisted off on me. ?

Maybe edit them in CAS and change things around to make it more interesting and to fit your game?

"Aine;c-17242829" wrote:
Maybe edit them in CAS and change things around to make it more interesting and to fit your game?

This is what I did. The charm family wasn’t too difficult, I mostly just adjusted their faces and bodies to have more natural proportions. I don’t usually fuss about how townies/premises look but the charm family- yikes. They had some crazy facial features.

I also edited the sages to look like the sims from the trailer to the best of my abilities. I’m not very good at CAS. I’m really hoping editing them hasn’t broken their status as sage, though. Haven’t had time to test it yet.

I don’t know if I will delete them, but I will be taking their lot for two of my sims for sure.

"Lemon405;c-17242824" wrote:

"Sheepiling;c-17242718" wrote:

Also console players can't use the gallery. Easy replacement isn't an option for everyone. :c

As a console player, I’ve become quite adept (not to mention swift) with CAS full edit mode and the nuke button. I’ll spend as long as it takes to obliterate the plum, characterless garbage that gets foisted off on me. ?

My point is that you shouldn't have to :c

Editing lots should be something someone does for fun, but the version EA gives us shouldn't feel like they NEED to be fixed to enjoy playing in them.

I actually like them because they served the purpose for one of my new stories.... I have a child i am playing that just ran away and I wanted to introduce magic in my game through a long lost elder that already knew magic and was very high in rank.

The child's mother backstory was that she ran away at 14 to live with an older bad man she soon broke up with and was tossed in the streets years later moving from state to state she met a guy and had a baby they was only together for 3 months...

now she was a very unfit parent to the child so the child runs away as well but she only runs away to find her dad { he never knew he had a kid with her unfit mom until the daughter showed up on his doorstep} he has his own other life going on with a set of twins and a new baby on the way.

however he and his family is very loving and supportive to her and she actually lived with them for a bit til the grandmother { she never met} showed up wanting to adopt her grandchild...

grandma whisked her away to her home in GB to meet her new family her aunt {her mom teen baby sister} her uncle {her mom younger brother].

the siblings never met their older sister{her mom} but heard lots of gossip an rumours about her being caught up deeply in the street life :'(

Now the child's life has changed much more then she thinks... new ppl new faces all around..new found wealth soon to enroll in the private *CHARM* school of magic where she will attend til she graduates... the head masters are all the sages {morgyn, L, ect.. } i created a group and added all who will be attending.

how will she take it when she finds out that the grandmother and the rest of her family on that side all dabble in magic? :o witches? good? bad? secrets? revenge? what's in her DNA?

and what's ahead for her? will her mom show up? will this all be too much and she runs back to her dad? or when she becomes a teen in 4 days will she find love at the private school or turn her new found skills into HATE?

"brsy;c-17242938" wrote:


I actually like them because they served the purpose for one of my new stories.... I have a child i am playing that just ran away and I wanted to introduce magic in my game through a long lost elder that already knew magic and was very high in rank.

The child's mother backstory was that she ran away at 14 to live with an older bad man she soon broke up with and was tossed in the streets years later moving from state to state she met a guy and had a baby they was only together for 3 months...

now she was a very unfit parent to the child so the child runs away as well but she only runs away to find her dad { he never knew he had a kid with her unfit mom until the daughter showed up on his doorstep} he has his own other life going on with a set of twins and a new baby on the way.

however he and his family is very loving and supportive to her and she actually lived with them for a bit til the grandmother { she never met} showed up wanting to adopt her grandchild...

grandma whisked her away to her home in GB to meet her new family her aunt {her mom teen baby sister} her uncle {her mom younger brother].

the siblings never met their older sister{her mom} but heard lots of gossip an rumours about her being caught up deeply in the street life :'(

Now the child's life has changed much more then she thinks... new ppl new faces all around..new found wealth soon to enroll in the private *CHARM* school of magic where she will attend til she graduates... the head masters are all the sages {morgyn, L, ect.. } i created a group and added all who will be attending.

how will she take it when she finds out that the grandmother and the rest of her family on that side all dabble in magic? :o witches? good? bad? secrets? revenge? what's in her DNA?

and what's ahead for her? will her mom show up? will this all be too much and she runs back to her dad? or when she becomes a teen in 4 days will she find love at the private school or turn her new found skills into HATE?

I love this! I may steal the idea for my own game. I wish there was some sort of magic school option in the game!

My main Spellcaster right now is a teen witch. My back story for her is that she was an orphan sent away to boarding school. The headmaster was secretly a wizard and he, recognizing her potential, sent her to a family cottage of his located in Glimmerbrook. But though she is now a Spellcaster, she still has to go to regular school. Which is OK, a bit like the Sabrina story, but a magic option would be lots of fun!

"Sheepiling;c-17242652" wrote:

"Simmify;c-17242624" wrote:
Am I alone in not understanding what the big deal is about the premades? I mean, just like in real life, not every one looks perfect. And they are literally just characters you don't have to play.

For me, I really enjoy playing with well-done pre-made townies, and they don't have to look perfect. For me, they just need to have a charming personality and story to go with them. Vlad is one of my favorite townies ever.

The Charm family doesn't have any charm to them. They along with the two sages that work with Morgyn just look ugly and rushed. We got so many beautiful and unique looking sims in the Realm of Magic trailer, and then when we buy the pack they give us these ugly townies that seem to be thrown together in 10 mintues because "ohoho let's put classic witch nose on them all"

I would be more into an "ugly" townie if they had more effort put into them and were meant to resemble the Wicked Witch of the West more.

I think the disappointment among a lot of people, myself included, is us not getting what was advertised to us.

Also the houses look horrible. In the trailer Morgyn explores this amazingly beautiful, magical interior of the Magic HQ and when we get there in our own game it's empty and everything is grey. It's not magical at all.

Thiiiiiss. Ugh.

I haven't really looked so close at the Charms yet, but from what I could tell, they weren't exactly that interesting. When I first looked through the residents of Glimmerbrook, all I felt when I saw these folks was an overwhelming sense of MEH.

I'm not even sure how. Is it because the kids are all grown up and the household looked more like a roommate type of situation? Is it because their faces somehow looked cartoony, even from the thumbnail? Who knows! They just have a disappointing aura, somehow.
It's nothing like the Forgotten Hollow vampires. All three of those were memorable to me. The Charms just aren't??

Enough about that, I also wanna address your point about the Magic HQ -- YEAH, why does it look nothing like in the trailer??
Holy heck, it's so bland. And I don't say that lightly. There's so much empty space. Is this just so that it's easier to find everything? It's such a boring build... Where is the one we saw in the trailer? I want that one. It actually looked good.

I seriously thought they were random generated sims, lol. They all look so, hmm, unique. Then I noticed them among the other premade households and I were seriously surprised. Then I deleted them.