What comes to mind when you hear "Realm of Magic?"

WHAT COMES TO MIND WHEN YOU HEAR "REALM OF MAGIC?"

Small world, half-baked life state ?‍♀️ (or sorcery skill), weird decisions with lazy coding and cheap trade-offs. And new bugs.
Can't help it but after waiting forever for new occult pack, with vampires bugs present and ignored, and after reading people's feedback on IL I have a really bad feeling about ROM :| (and future of series)

And of course I still have hope for some miraculous second coming of Vampires GP quality level.
Sorry for my English, drama and negativity

That's good to hear @Anmirla, I had missed that tweet.

I agree @lazyjuniper, I am looking forward to RoM so much and really enjoy occult play that I am worried it won't live up to my own expectations and that the team will cut corners and leave us with more bugs than action. Since IL I have had to age up all my toddlers to children by nightfall or they won't sleep a wink.

Realm definitely reminds me of The Sims Makin' Magic! That expansion pack had an awesome magic neighborhood where you could only buy houses using the magical currency. If they did something like that again, I think that would bring an awesome new dimension to the game.

Though if it is a gamepack, not sure if they would make an entire "world."

Whether they would have different types of witches/warlocks is an interesting related question. Like in The Sims 2 Apartment Life, witches could be designated as having light or dark magic if I remember correctly. That mixed with different realms could provide a quest line maybe?

I really hope they include children. Those tailless mermaid kids and vampire kids with randonly generated dark side in household managment look horrible. We have disguise for alien toddlers, why not extend that to all occult sims. Really hope for Harry Potter vibes with kiddos.

Something like this...
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I think of a medieval fantasy world. Or something like In Once Upon A Time (the tv series).

Me, I'm thinking of rounded walls, circular stairs, turrets and moats with some forests and cottages, medieval wallpaper and hangings, additional water tools, magic frogs, kings,queens, (crowns), princes, princesses, (tiaras), witches, fairies......dragons?

Nothing, absolutely nothing can match up to my imagination so it will probably be some of these. :)

PS: forgot...broomsticks? :D

You know, I think Realm of Magic would have made a great EP and Island Living the GP. Realm of Magic is broad enough that so much could be included! While I don't know that they could have had all supernaturals in an EP, they could have had a combination of Makin' Magic, Hogwarts/magic school, witches, fairies etc.

But, that's not the case obviously. I'm excited for ROM but also worried that though this should be my favorite GP/occult pack it won't live up to expectations. Supernatural was one of my favorite packs in the Sims 3 and Makin Magic was so creative in Sims 1.

"ashcrash19;c-17146278" wrote:
You know, I think Realm of Magic would have made a great EP and Island Living the GP. Realm of Magic is broad enough that so much could be included! While I don't know that they could have had all supernaturals in an EP, they could have had a combination of Makin' Magic, Hogwarts/magic school, witches, fairies etc.

But, that's not the case obviously. I'm excited for ROM but also worried that though this should be my favorite GP/occult pack it won't live up to expectations. Supernatural was one of my favorite packs in the Sims 3 and Makin Magic was so creative in Sims 1.

I was hoping it would be an EP too. :(

I definitely would have thought Island Living to be the GP instead and it does feel like a Game Pack with a larger world. It really didn't expand much.

I had high hopes for something bigger with a magic concept because I can think of so many, many things that could be put into it. But then, Vampires is my all-time favorite pack and I just love Jungle Adventures, so it still has potential to be amazing. Plus, I do have a lot of faith in @SimGuruNinja (no pressure on him or anything, lol) and a few of the devs seem genuinely excited about it and I feel like they want to talk about it but can't.

I'm just here waiting for that first teaser to drop so I can pounce all over the info, lol.

This is my worry too, that I want the pack so much I am going to be disappointed. I think there are bound to be people who feel this way as there are so many iterations possible of witches and witchcraft, let alone a plethora of other magical beings to live in the realm. I really do not want it to be Harry Potteresque, I have had my fill of that franchise, but I absolutely recognise that it is still hugely popular with a great many people who would be equally disappointed if nothing similar was included in RoM. Whatever they give us, I mostly hope it is not half-baked, better fewer things well done than lots of things with little attention or detail (mermaids).