Hmmm?
I don't know about all that. I love my spellcasters.
I have no vampires or werewolves in my save, I don't even use their worlds because I hate them for various reasons. I hate the way they act outside their worlds. I hate how animal like the werewolves are, they eat pet poop! Why?!?!? It's what I hated the most about TS3 werewolves, how they acted like dogs. I also can't stand how they look like furries. Yeah, I'm not feeling that at all. Vampires are also annoying to me. I DO like the content that came with vampires so I don't regret purchasing that one. Oh man, do I ever regret purchasing werewolves!
My spellcaster is the child of spellcasters, all the way up to her great grandmother. It's a matriarch that marries humans. The women are all spellcasters, except her mother who went rogue and married a male spellcaster....lol. She's got the ancient bloodline and she's what I consider my wicked "bad....butt". She's constantly being challenged to a dual and never loses, she even beats the sages.
Reading through some of the comments, it's really how you play them. I'm very happy with my spellcasters and I'm considering turning Forgotten Hollow and Moonwood Mills into worlds for different "branches" of spellcasters so I'll finally use those worlds. FH could be where the practitioners of the dark arts live while MM will be for the green "spellcasters". I could even use Henford (another world I ignore) for kitchen "spellcasters". Green/kitchen spellcasters are pretty similar but I'll figure something out lol.
I will say that I miss turning sims into frogs. Sometimes I'd turn the entire town into frogs just to amuse myself, I do find much joy and fun in freezing sims that annoy me and then laughing at their blue skins. I also have my sim going to the magic realm constantly so I can watch the club I set up that meets there catch everything on fire because they're not very good at spells. Also, have you seen the cute animation for child spellcasters in CAS? The "oops? what did I do?" It's one of my favorites.
As far as lack of CAS? I combine the vampire stuff into the realm of magic when I'm dressing my spellcasters, I'll probably draw in the stuff from werewolves and the country world, too.
