Spellcaster Holidays

Samhain. A gathering in the woods to celebrate the thinning of the veil between worlds. A joyous occasion of food, drink, and dance.

I definitely want to do this in my game.

I'm going to create Salem Day in Spring so witches can honor their fallen and persecuted ancestors. The traditions will be remembrance, telling stories, and water fun. I think normal sims burned witches at the stake long ago so they should celebrate by cooling off. :)

"erimurphey;c-17237263" wrote:
I'm going to create Salem Day in Spring so witches can honor their fallen and persecuted ancestors. The traditions will be remembrance, telling stories, and water fun. I think normal sims burned witches at the stake long ago so they should celebrate by cooling off. :)

That's awesome! "Salem Day" should be a thing everywhere! :)

Here's a fun fact for you: No people were actually burned in Salem. Most of them were hanged and one was pressed to death with heavy stones. Salem is very well known for the hangings yet only recently (last few years) was evidence found of where the actual hanging tree might have been.

I think they burned "witches" in England, though.

These sound great! I particularly love Hallow Day and Hollow Night.

I like these ideas, especially Hexennacht. I would use Hollow Night, but I already have Day of the Dead in it's place.

My concern is that the way holidays are set up, normal Sims will celebrate the spellcaster holidays too. There should be something added to the calender that only allows occults to celebrate their holidays. I'd love to make a holiday for vampires as well

"mika;c-17237659" wrote:
I like these ideas, especially Hexennacht. I would use Hollow Night, but I already have Day of the Dead in it's place.

My concern is that the way holidays are set up, normal Sims will celebrate the spellcaster holidays too. There should be something added to the calender that only has occults to celebrate certain holidays. I'd love to make a holiday for vampires as well

If they were to add occult specific tasks (aka dueling) then only Spellcasters (and I think vampires) would be able to do them right? ?

My calendar is full of different cultural holidays (like Diwali etc) and I just switch to the appropriate family for the duration of the day and then switch back; you could do the same thing with magical holidays. Or you could have a completely separate save just for your magical families.

I think I'm going to commit to my Magic Olympics Idea.
Just a chance for all spell casters to flex their powers.
I think the Tournaments are going to be cool... I just wish we had more elemental, light and dark based spells.
It would have been so cool to see him dish out so much fire attacks. And It would have been cool if Sims could Group dual.

Like you could have 1v1, 1v2, 1v3, fights or 3v5, 5v5 all sorts of combinations of Spellcaster fights. maybe your lone spell caster is powerful enough to take on 5 spell casters at once. if only...

Maybe I might just make all the other holidays and seasonal changes have a little bit more of Enchanting traditions.

Absolutely, and what a great idea! I make my vampires celebrate Christmas, and come to think of it, looks a little funny. Maybe create holidays for vampires. I have to think about this...thanks for all the inspiration guys! <3