✨The Torn Pages - Sims 4 Legacy Challenge ✨
Welcome to The Torn Pages Legacy Challenge! This is my first legacy challenge that I've created, it is a 5-generation Sims 4 challenge where each heir adds a new chapter to a ‘family scrapbook’ filled with ambition, heartbreak, tragedy, scandal, and redemption. Each generation leaves behind memories - some beautiful, some painful, but all of them permanent. More info below the cut ~
Here is the Google Doc! Everything looks a LOT better on there + recommended cc / mods are listed there. tumblr is weird.
TAG: #TTPlegacy
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✨ Guidelines:
- Heirs can be any gender and any sexual orientation, except Generation 4’s heir must be female (teen pregnancy storyline.) - Play on any lifespan you prefer. (I usually play on long lifespans myself) - Use any mods you’d like to enhance gameplay. - You may move on to the next generation once you have:
- Completed their Aspiration
- Reached Level 10 in required skills
- Completed the 3 Generational Goals Optional, but recommended: - Each generation should keep 1 scrapbook/heirloom item (photos, trophies, letters, etc.)
🪽 GENERATION 1: THE GRIEVING GUARDIAN
Theme: grief, responsibility, ambition, enemies-to-lovers
📖 Story:
Your sibling and their spouse die in a tragic accident, leaving you with their two children who are suddenly your responsibility. You were meant to be a rising star in the culinary world, the best chef in town, but now your life is chaos, grief, and parenting. You swear you don’t have time for love - until a rival chef attempts to open a restaurant right next door.
⭐ Traits:
Ambitious
Family-Oriented
Foodie
🌟 Aspiration - Master Chef
Required Skills (Level 10):
Cooking
Gourmet Cooking
Goals (Complete all 3):
Open a restaurant and earn a 5-star rating
Raise both children successfully (at least one must earn an A in school)
Fall in love with the rival chef (start as enemies, end as spouses)
👶 Heir Rule: Your heir must be one of the two orphaned children, not a biological child.
🩰 GENERATION 2: THE ONE GONE UNNOTICED
Theme: forgotten child, rebellion, passion, fame romance
📖 Story:
Growing up, you were loved… but always second. Your aunt/uncle tried their best, but the restaurant came first. You got used to performing with nobody in the crowd, pretending it didn’t hurt. So you became a wild child - mischievous, loud, unpredictable. But ballet was the one place you felt seen. Now you’re determined to become a world-renowned dancer, no matter what it costs.
⭐ Traits (Ballerina Mod + Base Game):
Dance Machine (or Ballerina Trait from mod)
Mischievous
Romantic
🌟 Aspiration - World-Famous Ballerina / Dance Star (Ballerina Mod)
Required Skills (Level 10):
Ballet/Dance Skill (mod skill)
Fitness
Goals (Complete all 3):
Become a world-class ballerina (reach top of ballerina career/mod path)
Become at least a 3 star celebrity
Marry your dance partner (must date while working together)
👶 Heir Rule: Your heir must be your first child, raised in a life surrounded by fame.
⚖️ GENERATION 3: OBJECTION: LOVE
Theme: nepo baby pressure, quiet ambition, messy romance
📖 Story:
Everyone assumes you’ll become a dancer. You’re the child of famous ballerinas, practically royalty in the arts world. But ballet was never your dream. You’re quiet, observant, and painfully self-aware. People call you a nepo baby and assume your success is handed to you. They’re wrong. Yes, you got your internship because of your parents’ name… but you stayed because you were brilliant. Your love life is another story. You try to force yourself into the “perfect” relationship… but you can’t commit to something that doesn’t feel real. You end up leaving your fiancé at the altar - or getting left yourself. Eventually, you find love in the messiest way possible: with your boss. Older, powerful, and absolutely not part of the plan.
⭐ Traits:
Bookworm
Ambitious
Noncommittal (or Loner)
🌟 Aspiration: Successful Lineage (or any career-based aspiration)
Required Skills (Level 10):
Logic
Research & Debate
Goals (Complete all 3):
Become a top-level Lawyer
Get left at the altar OR leave your fiancé at the altar
Marry your boss (must be older and higher in career level)
👶 Heir Rule: Your heir must be the child born after you finally settle down.
🍼 GENERATION 4: OOPSIE BABY!
Theme: pressure, shame, survival, teen motherhood
📖 Story:
Your family legacy is intimidating: world-renowned chefs, famous ballerinas, and one of the best lawyers around. You’re expected to be perfect. Straight A’s. Reputation. Future. But something happens and your whole world changes: you get pregnant as a teenager. Your parents decide you need to learn the hard way. They don’t abandon you completely… but they make it clear: this is your responsibility now. They buy you an apartment to “help you start,” but the rest is on you. Then tragedy strikes again - your mother passes away…and suddenly you’re grieving, terrified, and raising a baby while barely still a child yourself. Your high school boyfriend is scared at first… but eventually decides to step up. Your dreams of becoming a fashion designer are put on hold.
⭐ Traits:
Perfectionist
Family-Oriented
Creative
🌟 Aspiration: Trendsetter / Fashion-based Aspiration that changes to Super Parent (player choice, mods required. it changes to super parent because of the teen pregnancy)
Required Skills (Level 10):
Parenting
Fabrication/Fashion Design (mod) OR Painting (your choice for fashion vibes)
💔 Mandatory Rule: Working Teen Mom
As soon as pregnancy is discovered, you must get a part-time job immediately
You must continue working while pregnant and still a teen
Allowed Jobs:
Barista
Fast Food Employee
Retail Employee
Goals (Complete all 3):
Have a baby as a teen (or immediately after aging up if you don’t use teen pregnancy mods)
Raise the baby through toddlerhood while living independently
Reconcile with your partner and move in together OR marry them by the time the child becomes a child
👶 Heir Rule: The heir MUST be female, and MUST be the teen mom.
🌸 GENERATION 5: THE ONE WHO BROKE THE CURSE
Theme: healing, rebuilding, breaking cycles, soft ending
📖 Story:
You were raised by a mother who had to grow up too fast. You watched her struggle, grieve, and try to make something out of nothing. You grew up feeling guilt in the shadow of what could have been. But you’re not here to repeat history. You want joy. You want beauty. You want creativity. Something different than these generational struggles. You’re taking the dream your mother never got to live and turning it into something real. This is where the legacy ends: not with scandal… but with peace.
⭐ Traits:
Self-Assured
Creative
Goofball (or Ambitious)
🌟 Aspiration: Fashion Designer / Painter Extraordinaire / Trendsetter (player choice, something creative)
Required Skills (Level 10):
Charisma
Fashion Design (Mod), Photography, Painting (player choice)
Goals (Complete all 3):
Build your own creative career (fashion designer, model, style influencer, retail store, freelance creator, etc.)
Create a “Legacy Room” with items/photos representing all generations
End the challenge with a stable happy home (partner/spouse, best friend, and close bond with family)
👑 Final Rule: The legacy ends when Gen 5 reaches adulthood and proves the cycle is broken. (and obviously achieving aspiration + goals lol) <3
