The options are: 1. Magic as a skill that everyone including vampires and mermaids can learn2. Magic as an exclusive ability of a new life state separate from humans, vampires, etc.

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.

ROM: Magic As Skill Or Life State

Cinebar
6 years ago
Here is the thing, I wouldn't want magic to be a skill like when your Sim autonoumsly tells a joke and viola they have gained a skill. Or when your Sim autonomously does a mean interaction and viola they have a skill. It has to be a life state or all Sims will again be the same.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
You forgot the third option:

https://i.imgur.com/DY7Q5nb.jpg
RememberJoy
Seasoned Novice
6 years ago
"paradiseplanet;c-17143712" wrote:
You forgot the third option:

https://i.imgur.com/DY7Q5nb.jpg

How would you go about doing both?

If everyone can do magic, what would be the point of a different life state?
GosiaWKa
6 years ago
I would love it to be a life state that is a recieved life state like vampirism and being a mermaid, but now I see that a skill would also be cool, since they can create awesome hybrids!
karon_shiruba
6 years ago
My answer would be both... there should be a skill for you to be a better wizard/witch than the other ones...
ra7orrat
6 years ago
I prefer a mix too.
Magic itself I'd want as a lifestate, sims pick up too many skills "by accident" imho and I want magic to be exclusive and rare, plus it would add new CAS items exclusive to that lifestate adding more variety (at least to my selfmade sims)
and add a few "not really magic but also part of the realm"-skills everyone could learn.

if I absolutely had to choose I'd take lifestate but with the option to turn an existing ordinary sim into a witch/warlock just like vampires and mermaids, cause I got a sim just perfect for it.
Karamazov123
Seasoned Hotshot
6 years ago
What about a trait? A trait that can be unlocked in the aspiration rewards shop, can be inherited, and can given to sims through some in-game quests/items/CAS somehow. There's no secondary form for a witch. That way, other occult states can also be witches.

Magic-related skills can only be learned by people with this trait, meaning that non-witches can't pick them up by accident. The trait could also be removable, allowing sims to de-witchify themselves if need be.
thatdamian123
6 years ago
Eugh I’ve had a grim realisation!

What if there are no witches/ wizards and it’s just a skill to learn? No new life state, meaning this new skill is available to anyone and everyone, fitting the broader sense of the title “realm of magic”. All this talk about multiple occult’s would be out the window lol
ValiantRedKnight
New Spectator
6 years ago
"Gordy;c-17144533" wrote:
What about a trait? A trait that can be unlocked in the aspiration rewards shop, can be inherited, and can given to sims through some in-game quests/items/CAS somehow. There's no secondary form for a witch. That way, other occult states can also be witches.

Magic-related skills can only be learned by people with this trait, meaning that non-witches can't pick them up by accident. The trait could also be removable, allowing sims to de-witchify themselves if need be.

That would be great! I know some people don’t want vampires/aliens/mermaids to be able to do magic, but it seems unfair that just because somebody doesn’t want something nobody else can have it either.
Cinebar
6 years ago
"HimRumi;c-17145763" wrote:
I find the magic-life state exclusivity more appealing probably because it makes magic more unique and hidden while maintaining its secrecy. Magic isn’t something everyone suddenly happens to learn, it could be your either born with it or it’s generationally passed down through an enchanted object.

Maybe the possibility of distinguishing the difference between magic and spells. Non-supernaturals can practice spells and supernaturals can practice magic snd spells. Seems like a win-win to me.

Unless you try to zap a townie (like in TS1) and they zap you first, because they also have a skill. Does anyone remember you didn't have to learn magic at all in TS1, but if you tried any magic spells on Bella, or any other townie, she or anyone else would thawrt that spell because they had skills, too.