Re: Occult Sims Gameplay Ideas!

So, here I am, a non occult player suddenly playing nothing but occults! I know I lack knowledge that might inspire my game play further, and because I also would like to learn a bit about how well different occults go together, I thought the forum was a good place for this. I know some of you mostly play occults, but I'd also want to hear from those of you who don't know details for sure, but found interesting ways to play, that perhaps made sense, even :)

I have all the bigger packs, so I assume I have access to them all: Vampires, merfolk, fairies, werewolves, aliens and magicians. Not sure if plantsims is a thng in TS4 - from some searching it seems like there are some features to activate temporaily, but that there is no lasting lifeform. I recall some magic beans as a temporary game event years ago.

I played the vamps and magicians a bit in the past, just enough to get familiar with some of the features and to implement their families and history with my save. I read some facts on the  https://sims.fandom.com site, but that often gets static and down to the minimum.

I just made most of it up, though, and I paid little attention to game lore between those groups, if there is any. Recently I enjoyed the fairies, and then the merfolk. Werewolves I hardly played, although they seem cool enough :)

I want each occult group have their own ruler (king or just some other ruler) and separate traditions etc. I'll post more from my save later.

Right now I wonder about any lore between (or within) occult groups. In my save, the werewolves hail from a moonchaser magic school and moved from Glimmerbrok to Moonwood long generations ago (but I'm not sure if I made it up or if I found hints in the game.

So, what occults do you think go well together, and who should rather avoid to meet? And, why?

Also, try to describe each occult group with the help from 1 aspiration, 3 traits, 3 skills and one color :)

And of course, post events and pics from your game! Especially if you play multiple occult groups. I know there are separate threads for most of the occults, but they focus on just one group and might even be outdated (some of this stuff must have been patched, right?).