This is an important question to me, since I honestly can't fathom why Vampires, Mermaids, or Aliens wouldn't be able to learn magic any more than I can fathom why you can't make occult hybrids..Honestly I've been intending to write up an entirely new story based around my vampires since hearing that magic would be the next big things awhile backBeing able to progress through learning magic in skill trees regardless of the character would make for some really awesome characters.. imagine how OP your sims would get, it would make for a lot of epic struggles

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 cheatsEspecially since you see in the trailer Newt (I'm calling him Newt, that hair) gets empowered from being an average sim to a magic simIt 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 typesI'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 betterIn 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 elseIt'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.

Will Vampires be able to work magic?

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Ranma330
6 years ago
So i was just playing around with A family i made in realm of magic and the answer to that question is....yes? I have three vampire mage hybrids. from what i can gather there seem to be some conditions for it to happen though.
Ranma330
6 years ago
Oh, and i didn't cheat or mod
DaWaterRat
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Vampire/spellcaster hybrids do appear to be possible when a vampire and a spellcaster have a kid, but they're glitchy. You get the spellcaster perks, but the vampire needs panel, and you can't spend vampire perks.
Ranma330
6 years ago
True, i did have to cheat vampire perks just so mine could go out in the sun.
TygerNight
6 years ago
"Amavari;c-17226235" wrote:
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)

Everything about StrangerVille is creepy but that made me LOL. XD
SEREFRAS
Legend
6 years ago
Yup. Just give your Vampire the spellcaster trait.
I did & it made my Vampire/Spellcaster a whole lot interesting, powerful & fun to play with.
Regrius
6 years ago
I think there was a patch this month fixing the hybrid occult "problem" again. Is the vampire/not-witch still working?

It's my alien not being able to learn magic that bothers me actually, as she was designed in the aliens as space elf direction. Her husband was always supposed to be just a standard vampire, but full aliens being unable to change to anything means that pack is entirely useless unless I make him a not-witch instead. That just isn't the character he was supposed to be.
I believe they also "fixed" normal sims having access to occult CAS parts recently also, so I can't even make her a normal sim with alien features and then add not-witch on top. If Alien powers weren't a complete joke at this point, I'd just ignore it, but they are. It's frustrating.

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