ROM: Magic As Skill Or Life State

Skill, because too many want to try out hybrid with vampire/alien, even mermaid but very buggy and risker, so I think skill better off and safer so alien, normal sims, vampire and mermaid can learn and use it.

I kind of like the option of skills as it gives sims options. Like what if I don't want to change my Mermaid or Vampire but want them to have magical abilities?

But at the same time, it would be amazing if they were like Vampires. For each perk and level up, you have pick a negative trait and can be a good or bad magic user.

I want it mainly as a Life State to naturally channel magic and build up a well of magic. Different types of magic would be skills. Like Enchantments, Illusions, Divining, Necromancy, Transformation, Curse/Bless, and Summoning to name a few. As for other Sims, they would need an enchanted item which can store magic in order to cast spells like real witches. Natural witches would have some natural abilities aside from magic Skills of their choosing.

I don’t really want them to do the whole Harry Potter thing with magic as heritage. I want anybody to be able to seek it out on their own instead of just being born with the ability.

I'm probably going to get my virtual throat slashed for this but I feel like magic is its own concept and doesn't need a particular occult associated with it. In the world of fantasy there are many different kinds of creatures that can use magic, including humans. I also prefer the idea of sims being able to learn witchcraft instead of having an actual witch occult because I just don't see the point of the latter.

It needs to be a life state. Witches are THE MOST requested life state. It would be a slap in the face and a waste of Grant's time if they didn't make witches a separate life state.

It would not be as much fun to have magic be available to every sim. Period.

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17139689" wrote:
It needs to be a life state. Witches are THE MOST requested life state. It would be a slap in the face and a waste of Grant's time if they didn't make witches a separate life state.

It would not be as much fun to have magic be available to every sim. Period.

What makes you so sure that other people who want witches wouldn’t be fine with anybody being able to do magic as long as magic was well developed? I just don’t want random premades picking it up on their own.

And why would it be less fun? I think it’d be neat if I could do a storyline where a scientist’s alien child discovered magic, or something like that.

I want it to both tbh. A skill that any Sim can use perhaps, but only Fairies, Witches and Genies have full access to with unique spells.

I think it should be a life state. It’s just makes it seem more natural and contained. It also means that they can really flesh it out more than just a skill to learn. It’s can have a tree and branches of magic to learn. I just personally prefer it.

"jimjam1009;c-17139864" wrote:
I think it should be a life state. It’s just makes it seem more natural and contained. It also means that they can really flesh it out more than just a skill to learn. It’s can have a tree and branches of magic to learn. I just personally prefer it.

Being a celebrity isn’t a lifestate, but it still has a tree with branches. I don’t see why they couldn’t do something like that for magic.