StrangerVille or Realm of Magic? (No Spoilers Please)

But I would suggest if someone is debating on which one of these two to buy at the moment I would suggest StrangerVille. Realms of Magic is having some serious crashing issues when one is trying to do something with a Spellcaster in CAS.

Between the two, ROM for its open ended feeling for storytelling and the spells that helps lend to the feel that you’re customizing your Spell Caster.

Honestly ROM is more in my wheelhouse than strangerville. It’s so much more open ended and customizable. Although I like strangerville I can’t say it’s one of my favorite packs because it was kind of a one and done for me. I feel like I will have spellcasters all the time, even as a typically more realistic player, because there is so many ways to play them out.

I only have Strangerville so can't vote. I think I would prefer ROM though.

I enjoy both, but it's really no contest. Realm of Magic wins easily.

"MaggieMarley;c-17243676" wrote:
I get much more out if the vampires GP than StrangerVille and since ROM is very similar to Vampires I’m going for ROM. It adds a lot of gameplay if you play occults often but once you’ve finished the StrangerVille mystery there’s not really any more gameplay.

I have yet to purchase ROM.. Waiting until pay day LOL.. But Vampires is my fav GP. I very much enjoyed solving the mystery of Strangerville but after initial gameplay I lost interest as the world and townies are not 'full' enough for me. I love Vampires, it has cool townies, amazing build/buy objects and the terrain is different enough to keep things fresh.
From what I have seen, and read in the forums, I think I will love ROM <3

Remains to be seen...I had really fun with Strangerville because I played it with Sacrificials Zombie mod. The setting was just perfect.

Strangerville was fun, and I usually play through it at least once per save now, but once the mystery is over there isn't much reason to go there if your sim doesn't live there (although my military sims seem to end up hanging out at the 8 bells anyway - it is a pretty nice dive bar.)

I do like the build/buy elements, though. And a lot of the CAS assets.

I'm still figuring out RoM, but I feel the gameplay has longer usability than Strangerville.

I love both, don't get me wrong. Don't regret getting Strangerville for a second. But I'm having more fun with RoM

I don't have RoM yet and if I get it, I will do so later. I did actually really like StrangerVille and I actually will keep the settings and pre-mades in my game. I'm more of a realism player though so I actually like that I could come up with a mostly realistic explanation of the events and that I could turn the town into a normal part of my rotation after. I can see an interesting dynamic between the various households and any new sims. There's a "culture clash" in the town that I'll get into.

My StrangerVille hero married a military sim who was with her until the end of the mystery. I thought about having them move out but the setting really is great for the military. I have said that I think that military sims may have to do a certain amount of moving around and to the extent possible, military sims will be expected to live in StrangerVille at first depending on how long they are stationed there.

I wish that the town had a few more lots but that sounds like the case for RoM too. I wasn't planning on getting RoM right away and I'll way until any bugs are under control. It's the sort of thing where I might be willing to have one or two spellcasters because I can be open-minded but it isn't really my play-style. If it had a more involved world, that would draw me more. I'll probably get it ... later.

I vote to be contrary as usual but also I really like Strangerville, the town is bigger and easier to repurpose, I *love* the Strangerville premades, and the military career, the paranoid trait and the sweet windows and doors are more useful in regular gameplay.

I love spellcasters aswell but once I'm done playing my test save, I'll have maybe one or two in my main save and never visit Glimmerbrook.