Regular townies turning into spellcasters?

"Simpatsyann;c-17240592" wrote:
If it's true that your favorited Sims and those they interact with are not going to be targeted as spellcasters to fill whatever quota the game requires, then it would follow that saves with a lot of households and a lot of relationships would be more insulated from having familiar sims become spellcasters without the player's control. As someone pointed out above, if you start a new save then you (or your sim) won't have those relationships in place. This happened with Get Famous as well; I started a new save with a test sim to try out the features and Marcus Flex and Eliza Pancakes were assigned as bouncers. (I actually found it hilarious but there's no denying it was a bit out of place). In one of my larger, established saves where I have a ton of played sims and they've interacted all over the place, I never see a townie get assigned randomly (or at least I've never noticed it) but then the game DOES generate a random to fill the role.

I've always thought that "favorite" sims were only to prevent their households from being culled, but I'm not sure. Maybe I'll try starting with a Simsie Save instead since that is technically an established save with lots of families and relationships. I really don't mind if Marcus Flex or Eliza Pancakes are hanging out in the Magic Realm as if its a fresh new save, my brand new sim has no idea who they are. Who's to say they aren't secretly spellcasters? I'm mostly concerned with maintaining the "look" - meaning I would like the townies in the realm to look like they belong there.