"CarpeNocheSims;c-18183714" wrote:
When I was going through my spiritual experimentation after leaving home, I tried Paganism. The obsession with witches "being real witches" with pointy hats...etc...etc...is a very off putting.
Not to be disrespectful, the Pagans you're describing sound like interesting people I'd like to meet myself, but they are simply not what most players think of when it comes to witches in a video game like The Sims. They may be the "real" witches in the sense that they're real people practicing a real lifestyle in the real world, but at the same time they're not "real" witches in the sense of using real magic, because... well, magic itself isn't real. And works of fiction featuring magic don't usually do it for the representation of any real people calling themselves witches.
As for the obsession with pointy hats and other stereotypes, the problem is that the pack that brought us spellcasters doesn't even give us the
option of making our witches look like that. It went in the opposite direction than TS2, which forced witches to be stereotypical by changing their entire appearance to correspond with their moral alignment every five minutes of practicing magic. Nowadays, if you want a pointy hat, you need Spooky Stuff, but as someone mentioned before, that one comes with a spider attached that makes it look like a costume more than anything else.
About 25% of my played sims are spellcasters, including walking stereotypes with witchy outfits and black cats, but also normal everyday folks like the ones you described, and everything in-between. I love this diversity, the ability to create whatever kind of witch I can think of, but the options for anything out of the ordinary are limited, and I think that's what most people mean when they complain about the lack of stuff like pointy hats.
