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Family Dramatics Legacy Challenge//TheSims 4

General Rules

No cheats that serve to enhance gameplay over other simmers 

You can use “freerealestate on” when starting the first-gen.

Each career and aspiration must be completed unless expressly stated otherwise (if a career branch is not specified, then the choice is completely up to you)

Packs required: Discover University, Cottage Living, City Living, Get to Work, Seasons, and Parenthood.

Optional Pack: For Rent

I made this legacy challenge mostly because I wanted more drama in my game and to have generations actually affect the next. After looking around, I found the Family Dynamics legacy challenge, which has a similar vibe.

That’s about it, so enjoy! :)

Family Dramatics Legacy Challenge

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GEN 1 - “but do i really want that?”

Traits: Neat, Ambitious, Mean

Career: Freelancer, Artist branch then Artist

Aspiration: Successful Lineage, then switch to Painter Extraordinaire 

You’ve always dreamed of having a perfect family. You’ve always wanted to be an artist. Well, why not do both? You get married young and achieve the “white picket fence” ideal. However, you realize that it wasn’t enough. Was being a stay-at-home mother what you really wanted? Cleaning, parenting- did you really like it, or did you just love the idea of a perfect family?

Marry as a Young Adult

Start as a freelancer, then quit and join the artist career before turning into an adult

Have at least 3 children

Maintain a good relationship with your kids until they become children.

Have at least one daughter that is not the eldest (this is relevant for the next-gen)

Complete at least 3/4s of either aspiration

Reach Level 10 painting skill

Reach the top of your career

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GEN 2 - “golden child”

Traits: Active, Family Oriented, Perfectionist

Career: Doctor

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

You were your family’s golden child, as well as the eldest. Due to your parents being workaholics, you ended up raising your siblings. You move out as a young adult into an apartment. One day, your teen sister shows up at your door pregnant. You take her in, along with the baby. Then she runs away, leaving you with her baby. You don’t even know what you truly want out of life, and now you have to raise a child that isn’t yours.

Gain all character values bonus traits

Max all skills as a toddler

Have an A in high school and elementary

Move into an apartment

Maintain a high relationship with all of your siblings

Have no biological children of your own (adoption is an option)

Max out your career and Aspiration

Notes: I suggest going to university for this sim, so that they have a part-time job as a teen, as a young adult in uni, then a full-time career so that you complete your aspiration. If you do not have the Discover University pack, then you can work 2 part-time jobs at once.

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GEN 3 - “this bitter heart of mine”

Traits: Erratic, Goofball, Vegan

Career: Entertainer, Musician branch

Aspiration: Friend of The World

You were raised by your relative, and you never wanted much as a child. You never thought much of romance either, until you met someone who you just clicked with. You got married to each other fast and had a child. Everything was perfect; you couldn’t be happier— until you caught your spouse cheating. Shocked and disbelieving, you and your spouse decide to try again, for your kids. However, once a cheater, always a cheater, you learn.

Have two or three children

Catch your spouse cheating

Have someone else’s baby (while still married)

Get divorced when one of your children is a teen

Maintain a vegetable garden

Max the singing, guitar, and charisma skills

Reconnect with your mother

Your youngest will be the heir

Complete your aspiration

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GEN 4 - “me, myself, and i” 

Traits: Self-Assured, Art Lover, Noncommittal

Career: Critic

Aspiration: Serial Romantic OR Villainous Valentine

After witnessing the disaster that was your parent’s love life, you stopped believing in love. Relationships… well, they were too messy. Commitment just wasn’t your thing. The few times you tried, it ended just as disastrously as your parents. Rich, successful, single- what more could you ask for? You were living your satisfactory lifestyle until a one-night stand resulted in a child, causing you to discover that there are different types of love.

Read romance books

Paint as a hobby

Play at least one instrument

Max out 3 skills

Get to the top of your career

Have a child that resulted in a one-night stand

Divorce once

Leave the same fiancé at the altar 

Never marry after the divorce 

Have a high relationship with your child

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GEN 5 - “happily ever after”

Traits: Creative, Snob, Romantic

Career: Writer (self-employed)

Aspiration: Soulmate

You grew up as one of the elite, and your parent never hesitated to spoil you. Money? It was never a problem. You never felt the need to meet your other parent. You had everything you could ever want. You loved writing and met someone who felt the same. You get engaged. You have a beautiful wedding. You buy a house. You have a child. 

Your spouse gets eaten by a cowplant. 

Devastated, as you grieve for your partner, you commit your life to discovering a way to bring them back to life.

Max out the writing and gourmet cooking skills

Write ONLY romance books, but once your spouse dies, you can write sad books

Have a spouse who is either in the writing career, a bookworm, or enjoys writing

Have your spouse keep a garden

Have a cowplant

Have a spouse who gets eaten by the cowplant

Stop keeping said garden once your spouse dies

Revive your partner successfully

Be an overprotective helicopter parent

Notes: You can only write sad books if you have the “sad” moodlet. (This is like emotional paintings; it works the same way)

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GEN 6 - “oh the irony”

Traits: Loves the Outdoors, Unflirty, Good

Career: Tech Guru

Aspiration: Freelance Botanist

You’ve always loved plants, which is weird since one of your parents was eaten by one. You love the outdoors, but you were rarely allowed to venture outside due to your parents’ fear of losing you too. During the time spent indoors, you find another passion in video gaming and programming.

Be close with your grandparent as a child 

Max the gardening skill, flower arranging, and programming skill

Make games as a side hustle

Have a greenhouse filled with plants

Have a cowplant

Vacation in the countryside at least twice

Marry someone from Henford-on-Bagley

Move to a rural area

Die by cowplant

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GEN 7 - “what more could i want”

Traits: Cheerful, Animal Enthusiast, Loner

Career: Nothing → Self-Employed Farmer

Aspiration: Soulmate, then change to Country Caretaker

You’ve always been more attracted to the humble lifestyle, but give up your dreams to support your spouse. You get married early and play the role of a politician’s partner, but soon your differences cause a rift in your marriage. Tired of sacrificing for your partner’s career, you run away with your child to the countryside and live out your cottagecore dreams.

Marry a politician

Have one child with the politician (they will be your next-gen heir) 

Be the epitome of a perfect stay-at-home parent

Leave for the countryside, but don’t divorce yet

Have a cow, a llama, and chickens

Use the “Simple Living” Challenge

Make and grow as much of your food as possible

Divorce your politician husband when you’re an adult

Have another child, but not the politician’s 

Notes: If you have RPO, you can separate temporarily when you move, then permanently as an adult.

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GEN 8 - “unlucky in love”

Traits: Materialistic, Lazy, Noncommittal

Career: Self-employed 

Aspiration: Mansion Baron

You were never satisfied with the humble life as your parent was. You always sought money and fame. Mostly money; the fame part was optional. However, you weren’t really willing to put in the work of… well, the getting-rich part. As an alternative, you marry rich. But oh no, your spouse has died in a terrible accident… leaving all their money to you… What a coincidence that happens once, twice, three times… Maybe you’re just unlucky in love.

Have a low relationship with the parent who raised you

Move to the city with your rich politician parent as a teen

Never get a job

Drop out of university or get an “easy” degree

Have one child whose other parent is alive (the child can be the result of an affair) so you can collect child care payments

Have children only once you become an Adult

Live in Willow Creek

Complete the Mansion Baron Aspiration

Max the mixology and charisma skill

Notes: Collecting childcare payments can be enabled using MCCC. However, if you don’t have that mod, you can ignore that task.

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GEN 9 -  “bigger is better”

Traits: Clumsy, Ambitious, Childish

Career: Business (Investor Branch) 

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy → Big Happy Family

You never understood why your parent didn’t do much with all the power they had. You wonder- what if you could do more? And you did- you did so much more. Properties, businesses, people- everything you touched turned to gold. You become a revered Investor, earning lots of money. Although it was for love, you marry into more money- then your spouse dies, and you’re the sole inheritor. At one point, you get bored… You were always taught that bigger is better, but was it really true? Then, your parent dies tragically, leaving you with even more money. 

What the hell were you supposed to do with all that money?

Max your career

Max the Charisma skill

Inherit your parent and spouse's money by the time you become an Adult (you can cheat their deaths if needed)

Adopt 3 children and commit your life to giving them opportunities

Open a retail store for fun, then sell it

Own at least one rental residential

Have a cat

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GEN 10 - “opposites attract”

Traits: Cheerful, Evil, Genius

Career: Secret Agent, Villain Branch

Aspiration: *your choice*

You weren’t really sure what you wanted out of life, and under your parents’ insistence, you attend university. Soon after graduating, you get recruited into an agency. Workaholic? That’s you. It’s not like you had anything else to do. You meet someone at work, and sparks fly. Your love was the type of love Sims only saw in movies, and you have a grand wedding. However, as time goes on, you discover that while you both may have risen the ranks, you are not on the same side.

As a kid to young adult, “try out” most skills

Attend University and get the Villainy degree

Attend at least 3 parties

Max out the skills Charisma, Piano, Athletic, Acting, and Logic

Take up Knitting

Marry a Secret Agent (Diamond Agent branch) that has the Good trait

Gain the “opposites attract” sentiment

Have children with only conflicting traits

Notes: These trait combos could be Perfectionist & Lazy, Clumsy & High Maintenance, Slob & Proper, Cheerful & Mean, Gloomy & Outgoing, etc.