Will Vampires be able to work magic?

From what I've read, it seems most if not all RoM gameplay is dependent on your sim being a spellcaster, which sadly vampires and other occults are unable to become. I wasn't surprised or necessarily against magic being a life state, but I was hoping alchemy at least would be a skill my vampire could learn, but apparently not. This makes no sense to me either, at least not from a storytelling perspective since vampires and 'spellcasters' are often the same thing in folklore. I had lots of story ideas too, which I have now had to rethink. It's a big disappointment to me and I hope it will change at some point to give us more options, but it seems unlikely.

It's honestly disappointing to me if Realm of Magic offers nothing for existing occults, I've always just kind of thought that it's odd how if your sim is one thing they can't be anything else unless you use cheats

Especially since you see in the trailer Newt (I'm calling him Newt, that hair) gets empowered from being an average sim to a magic sim

It should just add another icon to the bar, anyone should be able to get the life state if they want it

My main character for occult play is also vampire, and I just created a new villain for her in the form of this absurdly evil decrepit ancient vampire that I was going to have learn magic, since really that's all that could possibly give her a challenge with how overpowered she is.

The biggest flaw with occult sims in my view has always been that for all the special things they get they are also limited to just those things, wherever a new occult comes it it seems to just ignore that previous occults exist which kills creativity if you want to make a family with different sim types

I'm not saying everything has to be compatible, even if its just things like powers that would be fine. Like a vampire or alien sim with a mermaid parent that can change the weather and use siren songs, or with an elemental parent that can call lava bombs and make plants grow better

In this case it's just illogical to forget about every other occult that's already in the game when they should all be able to go get involved in the new pack just like everyone else

It's /discrimination/

Yeah, I was really hoping to make a Sea Witch with this GP. When I first learned that wasn't going to be possible I was really disappointed.

I don't mod much, but if there's a mod workaround I might grab it.

"nerdfashion;c-17224856" wrote:
It's been confirmed that magic will be designed for one lifestyle only. However, it has also been confirmed that Spellcasters won't have a second form, but will have a skill tree, so the hybrid glitch shouldn't be as buggy with Spellcasters and mermaids/aliens, but probably vampires since a sim can't have more than one occult skill tree.

My hope was that they would officially bring hybrids in this package or patch in case. But it will not happen, but right as we are fighters fierce always find some way to circumvent the game. I would particularly love something official but if I need to make a vamp-spellcaster hybrid I will at least try to activate vampirism, buy some tree perks and then remove via debug and then turn it into a wizard. In theory this works, my Sim is no longer a vampire and she still has some modllets (also she's hybrid of alien-mermaid), but some actions that need vampire magic maybe if we're lucky, the magic bar that exists for the spellcaster might have the same programming as vampires, making it easier things.

So a vampire can't become a spellcaster. But what if a spellcaster gets bitten by a vampire?

So yeah, there is flat out confirmation that as per the norm there will be no crossing occults, no magic vampires

So.. I'm finding my desire for the pack greatly lessened, I suppose we'll see what sorts of other things they add as far as decorations and clothing since there were a lot of cool things in the trailer

I seriously just don't understand how it's /that/ difficult for them to add things in in a way that doesn't conflict so that they can give people options other than "well, I want to use magic so I guess I'll have to give up vampirism, and my fangs and pointy ears and powers, yay. Fun."

I'm admittedly a bit irritated at this, which is unusual for me >.> its literally like they just pretend that already existing occult sims don't exist when they add new ones, it just doesn't make sense to me from the standpoint that they take what could be a really awesome thing for /everyone/ and then implement it so poorly.

But fun fact I learned yesterday.. drinking plasma from an infected strangerville sim will infect a vampire... it was creepy.

But no, no magical cross-occult bloodlines for anyone but spellcasters, you'll either have to use cheats on console and hope for the best or wait for mods on pc.

I think this is legitimately the first time I've been salty over something in the sims (besides temporary lightning powers and temporary lifestates)

Aaaw good grief! I should have searched this BEFORE buying the game pack. Had I known I can't make my favorite vampire a spellcaster, I wouldn't bought the game pack. This is utterly stupid, to say the least. Why couldn't an alien learn magic? It would really make up for their poor variety of powers (compared to Sims 3) that aliens have. Instead of a life state, this should have been made a skill that every sim can learn, I mean in every other game I've played that includes magic, it is LEARNED not born with.

It does seems a shame. An Ursula-esq wicked sea witch would have been fun, especially as mermaids don't really do anything much.