The Fairy Question

I'll probably use the fairy costume and choose spells that fit. I think it will be possible based on what they give us.

I plan on eventually making a couple Fae sims that are more like elves instead of typical winged faeries. I think with the way magic looks in this new pack there will tons of ways you can play!

I am still hoping we will be able to play as 'Fair Folk' in a future pack. I don't mean cute little people with wings or anything like the familiars in RoM, but something more versatile like vampires and (hopefully) spellcasters are. Of course we haven't seen just how versatile spellcasters are yet, but I'm not sure it will be enough to cover fairies for me in an entirely satisfying way. I want mischievous tricksters and changelings with a beautiful fairy world. There are so many different and interesting interpretations of fairies/elves etc. too and I think it would be a real shame to leave fairies out.

I really would like a proper pack for fae, as they're the lifestate I was most excited for after witches. And I think there are so many possibilities of what to do with them!

I do not have a lot of hope at this point, though. I'm not sure why they did it this way, because right now, it just seems like they're adding faeries in a disappointing fashion. And if they haven't even fixed plantsims, what hope is there for faeries, you know?

One of the speculations for RoM (that, of course, seems not to be true as far as we know) was that unlocking the magic would unlock a kind of playable overlay for magic sims that other sims can't see (they way only the child could see their imaginary friend in TS3, or only toddlers see the cool animations on their playset in TS4). I do think that would be a really fun idea to transfer over to a fairy pack, as "fairy sight" or "fairy ointment" is a part of so much lore.

So the pack could include a small new world with everything looking really big, like suggested above, but more importantly have a really in-depth playable overlay for all the existing worlds. Maybe objects would look different to fairies (like, idk, all bars now have a clickable "fairy bar" on them for ordering fairy drinks) and fairies could see other fairies as fairies, and maybe also see like auras/overlays for other occults or for sims moods or something, but you click over to a regular sim and everything looks normal.

I think this would also allow the pack to "invade" the world without invading the world for players who don't want it to, because if you don't play a fairy none of that stuff is there.

But I do like the idea of a magic pack where the magic just kind of layers over the worlds we already have. Probably unlikely, as I imagine it would be a lot of work to go through every world like that, but it sounds fun to play. Especially playing a combination home, where someone is "playing Fairy Bride" (marrying an unknowing mortal) and trying to keep the secret.

Unless I can be an actual tiny fairy flying around, I'm not interested. As far as it is now, if they're just sims with wings and magic, that's too similar to spellcasters to warrant an entire different pack just for them.

We have fairy costumes with the Halloween pack, and we have a whole branch of mischief magic. I think it stands that with the natural versatility of spellcasters and different types of magic, this pack works well as a catch-all. Sorcerer? Sure! Witch? Sure! Fairy? Absolutely! A fairy is a type of magic user, so jump all over that with this pack. Personally, I'd find a separate fairy pack very redundant.

I think this fairy isn't that fairy. Don't know if anyone noticed that in the hidden world tree in Willow Creek, there's some white light floating around the shrubs, if zoom in can heard laughing and there's a figure with wings in the light.

I think in TS there's two kinds of fairies: small fairies and humanoid fairies

"Shadow_Assassin;c-17215445" wrote:
I think this fairy isn't that fairy. Don't know if anyone noticed that in the hidden world tree in Willow Creek, there's some white light floating around the shrubs, if zoom in can heard laughing and there's a figure with wings in the light.

I think in TS there's two kinds of fairies: small fairies and humanoid fairies

@Shadow_Assassin In RL its believed that fairies is a whole world of many kinds of creatures, like in the Maleficent movie where there humanoid ones, animal looking ones, werid looking ones, etc... Its like a beehive where there are different types of fairies to take care of their realm and all of that.

I would like it if we got faeries in TS4, provided they would be like the Fae and not like Tinkerbell. (These were my favourite lifestate in TS3). They could come as part of an EP like mermaids did, as their magic (while powerful) wouldn’t have to be complex or spell-derived like that of spellcasters. Their magic would be more nature-based and centred on the natural world anyway. If we do get another supernatural creature next, though, in fairness it ought to be something very different and without magic, like werewolves or robots. Or perhaps we could get decent zombies this time, and have a pack like Strangerville where we play out the Sims version of a zombie apocalypse storyline. As for plantsims, since they are in the basegame and a temporary affliction, I hope they get a revamp and improvements in the future as part of a patch.

Having not played previous itterations of Faerie in Sims, but knowing a not-insignificant amount about the folklore (mostly English/European, sadly) IRL, my ideal Faerie pack would have a fairly simple magic structure (maybe 2-3 new interactions each on Mean and Friendly, 4-5 new ones on Mischief, and a handful under a "faerie" category), but a very, very extensive CAS for the Occult form. New body types, new facial features, new skincolors... maybe even new hand and foot shapes. And the human glamour would work more or less like the Alien disguise.

But I'm good on magical sims for a while, and am hoping for Werewolves next... and before 2021.