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INTRODUCING….The OCCULT ONLY sims 4 challenge absolutely nobody asked for! Inspired by the @lilsimsie Not So Berry challenge, The Sims 4 “Not So Scary” challenge takes a variety of features from the different spooky packs to guide your sims legacy in a new and spooky direction! This challenge is designed with creative freedom in mind, meaning there are limited trait and aspiration restrictions. Take the story in whatever direction you want to! Each generation also includes a related build (bc idk about y’all but I need to work on my build/buy too) My hope is that this challenge opens up a door for simmers to play with the weird and rejected sims, and experience a new style of gameplay!

Gen 1: 👻 Spooky love story 👻

All your life you’ve felt connected to the “other side” It seemed only fitting to become a paranormal investigator to use your special talent to help others, but maybe there’s more than just career success to be found in those haunted mansions….

✧ become licensed paranormal investigator ✧ master the medium and writing skill ✧ purchase the “brave” reward trait ✧ must fall in love and marry a ghost ✧ live in a haunted house after marriage ✧ have one child who will become the next heir ✧ complete the bestselling author aspiration

BUILD: create a ghost hunters tiny home!

Gen 2: 🧛🏻I’m in love…with a vampire?! 🧛🏻‍♂️

Your dads a ghost, your moms a “kook”, and your maid is a skeleton?! All you’ve ever wanted was a normal family, and to stop being the ~weird kid~ Your parents are always busy with work leaving you with only your art supplies and plopsy shop. That is until the new kid at school shows interest in you…could this be your chance for a normal life?!?

✧ must have loner and creative trait ✧ have no friends your age until s/o is met in teen years ✧ s/o must be a vampire ✧ can never be drank from/see ur s/o in vampire form until dating (bonus if ur married) ✧ master knitting and 1 other creative skill! ✧ complete good vampire aspiration! ✧ have twins (or triplets for added challenge)

BUILD: create a “suburban family dream home” with hidden vampire secrets…

Gen 3: 🕸Twitches get stitches 🕸

The family name is known in the world of the paranormal and unusual, but magical creatures and sorcerers are on the rise. Raised in a household of powerful vampires and motivated to bring fame to your family name, you begin your study of spell craft and train for your fight to become the family heir.

✧ have a sibling rivalry with all of your siblings ✧ each child must master a different area of spell craft (max three) ✧ heir is not chosen until a winner is crowned at a duel that takes place during adult years (option to kill the losing sibling[s] after duel) ✧ heir must achieve lvl 3 fame or above ✧ be the leader of a cult (club) of magical sims only ✧ have at least one child

BUILD: create the perfect magical gathering location for your club of spooky sims

Gen 4: 👑 Who runs the world? 👑

Your family has dominated the supernatural world in every aspect, now it’s time to rule the sim world as the queen/king you are, with a trophy s/o by your side and piles of green to prove it.

✧ achieve negative reputation ✧ live on largest lot in the world u choose ✧ have snob trait ✧ reach lvl 10 in politician or villain career path ✧ marry a GREEN sim (alien or plant sim) ✧ complete fabulously wealthy aspiration

BUILD: create a community lot that honors your family legacy! (a park with your family name, a magical store, a fancy art gallery, the possibilities are endless!)

I hope you all find this challenge to be a fun way to spice up your gameplay with the unusual! You can watch me play this legacy on my twitch and see all my builds and sims under the tag #notsoscarylegacy on the gallery! I will also be posting gameplay and challenge updates on my twitter! 

It is done (enough)!

I would hype it up more but this is really really simple. It randomly generates a set of symbols, colors, and a word, and then the expected thing to do with those is you draw some sort of character based off the result you get. So it's just an art challenge toy thingy.

There are also some practical features like you can lock parts of the result in place to rerandomize the rest, or hide parts of the generation you don't care about (like if you want to pick your own colors or hate the words being there)

You can try it out over on itch.io!

It should run in browser, but there's also a downloadable version for Windows if you want to use it offline. (No mac/linux versions for now, because I don't have appropriate computers to test those on and I...don't want to deal with mac's developer accounts or whatever their problem is...)

Here's something I made from one of the results I got for the sake of example:

(It's a bit of a rushed drawing sorry I just wanted to get the actual generator out there)

I hope everyone has fun with it :]