Dare's Sims 3 Let's Plays

Overall Mod suggestions to make the legacy more fun:

NRAAS Master Controller for everything - including checking Hidden Skill progress as a few generations require you to max them

NRAAS Woohooer to enable Risky-WooHoo for accidental pregnancies 

The Randomizer Mod to add some more unexpected drama to your saves

Your natural talent for baking bread and decorating sweet treats made you think that owning a bakery would be a piece of cake *pun fully intended*. So, with stars in your eyes and every last penny to your name, you poured it all into opening your dream bakery. What you didn’t expect was to fall in love and get pregnant with your partner so quickly. For a while, life felt perfect. Business was picking up, your little family was thriving, and love was sweet. But out of nowhere, someone else walked into your life. And just like that, your heart shifted. You never thought you'd be the heartbreaker, but… the heart wants what the heart wants.

You left your partner for this new love, and soon after, found yourself expecting a child… again. The bakery was booming, your kids were getting along, and your heart felt full. You were madly in love, and for once, everything felt just right. Until they walked in. The moment you saw them, it hit you. Love at first sight, all over again. You couldn’t ignore it. So you broke things off once more, chasing what felt like your true soulmate. You just can’t help that you’re a hopeless romantic.

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Natural Cook

Commitment-Issues

Dramatic

Flirty

Charismatic

Nurturing / Family-Oriented

LTW Options:

Heartbreaker

Master Romancer

The Culinary Librarian

Skills:

Cooking

Kama Simtra

Career:

Vanilla: Culinary Career (start at the Diner and then move onto the Bistro)

Modded: Run your own bakery

Goals:

Max all skills listed above.

Complete the following Skill Challenges:

Star Chef (Cooking)

Menu Maven (Cooking)

[OPTIONAL] World Class Chef (Cooking)

Complete one of the LTWs listed above.

Start by working at the diner & get your Cooking Skill to Level 4. Work to get to Level 6: Pastry Chef

Vanilla: When you’re at Level 6, you receive an offer from the Bistro to come and join their team of award-winning Pastry Chefs, you transfer your job over there instead of the Diner. Modded: When you’re at Level 6 & have enough money, open a bakery using Ani’s Merchant Mod + NRAAS Master Controller (linked below)

Every major holiday, cook (& sell if modded) items related to it E.g (you can also use creative liberty, these are just suggestions): Love Day: Pancakes / Crepes / Wedding Cake / Forever Alone Calzone Leisure Day: Hot Dogs / Burgers / Summer Dessert Pizza / Deep-Fried Ice Cream / Strawberry Pie Spooky Day: Pumpkin Pie / Cinnamon Rolls Snowflake Day: Stuffed Turkey / Sugar Cookies / Blackberry Pie

Get to at least Level 5 in the Nectar Making Skill

Get into a serious relationship with at least three sims throughout your life and have a baby with each of them. (you can do more than three partners, and you can marry them if you want)

Woohoo at least 3 times at 3 different locations

Pass down the following cookbooks to your children: Cookies, Cobbler, Baked Angel Food Cake. - It’s up to you how you distribute them

Get married to your final partner and live a happy life with them and your children (can have more than three children if you wish)

Go all out with gifts for your kids/partner’s birthdays.

Celebrate your sim's favourite holiday when it comes around: Love Day (Get your sim to celebrate/decorate for it to the fullest)

Note: The goals for the next generation start as a Child - make sure you read ahead!

Mod / CC Recommendations:

Store Deliciously Indulgent Bakery Set (available from Blams here)

Ani’s Merchant Mod 

Any custom food mod such as Baker’s Basket

Also see my guide on how to use NRAAS MasterController to make a hybrid community-residential lots for running your own businesses from home!

No Fridge Shopping

AntiMagicScroll - stops recipe books being destroyed after you read them

NRAAS Woohooer + Kama Simtra

You and your half-siblings never understood how one of your parents could fall in love so easily. That was… until you grew up. As a young adult, you started working at the local hospital, finally living your childhood dream. You’d always loved playing doctor when looking after your many siblings as a kid, and your dedication paid off when you were accepted into the junior doctors program. That’s where you met them. The one. Or at least, you thought they were.

From flirty exchanges in the break room to steamy makeout sessions in supply closets, your chemistry was undeniable. You weren’t officially together, but in your mind, you were already picking out wedding venues. Everything felt perfect—until the night you hosted a work dinner. That’s when it happened. The moment your world cracked. Your "work husband/wife" showed up… with their actual spouse.

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Genius

Hopeless Romantic

Disciplined

Schmoozer

Ambitious

Good

LTW:

World Renowned Surgeon

Skills:

Logic

Charisma 

Career:

Medical

Goals:

As a child, get an A in school.

If you get the ‘World Renowned Surgeon’ lifetime wish come up when your sim is a child / teen, accept it immediately (it’s more likely to happen after siblings are born or they witness the death of a family member).

Look after your siblings regularly as a teen / child

As a teen, get an A in school and host a sleepover with your friends. (can be done as a child)

Max all skills listed above.

Complete the following Skill Challenge: Personable (Charisma)

Complete the LTW listed above.

Reach Level 10 of the Medical Career

Befriend everyone you work with.

Have an affair with one of your (married) colleagues and convince them to leave their spouse.

Have at least two children - get pregnant with one of them out of wedlock.

Each time you or your partner are pregnant you should read the most expensive pregnancy book, and have the baby’s other parent read it too if they are part of the active HH.

Host a baby shower every time you or your partner is pregnant (Throw a house party and decorate the house with baby stuff, then go around the sims at the party announcing that you're pregnant & have them feel your sim’s belly).

Host a Feast Party, Pool Party and Gift-Giving Party with all (known) family members invited at least once. 

Host a family member to live at the house for 2-5 days at least twice. (it can be a different family member each time).

Parent your children strictly: - Read to your toddlers at least 3 times using the toddler skill books (preferably the logic ones - they’re the ones with the pink covers). - Teach your toddlers all of their essential skills for age up - Always punish them for bad behaviour. - Always do homework with them & make sure they keep up good grades. - Don’t allow the relationship bar to go above the ‘acquaintance’ level with your kids - if you do become friends, you need to get into an argument to set it back down. - If one of your kids is being particularly rebellious, feel free to ship them off to military school. - Send your kids to the military academy in town (NRAAS Careers - Schools)

Note: The goals for the next generation start as a Teen - make sure you read ahead!

Mod / CC Recommendations:

Children can care for their lil’ siblings by TheSweetSimmer

User-Directed Scolding & Other Punishment Tweaks by Icarus Allsorts

NRAAS Careers + Schools

Growing up, it was hard trying to live up to your parents expectations. Especially when they’re both successful doctors. What's even worse is that you got pregnant very young and had to put your life plans on hold to raise the baby. Telling your parents was the scariest part. They were livid. Too scared to stay, you and your partner ran away, leaving everything behind, and had to start from scratch. You gave birth to your baby and showed it so much love, while trying to make ends meet. Once your baby was old enough, you joined the athlete career for some stable income, but eventually realised you want to be more involved in your children's lives, so you decided to open your own gym and yoga studio. Soon enough, you built a life for yourself and a beautiful family. And you did it all by yourself, without the help of your parents.

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Family-Oriented

Athletic 

Absent-Minded

Brave

Daredevil

Rebellious

LTW Options:

Become a Superstar Athlete

Perfect Mind, Perfect Body

Surrounded by Family

Physical Perfection

Skills:

Athletic

Martial Arts

Career:

1: Professional Sports

2: Gym Owner (& self-employed Personal Trainer if using NRAAS Careers)

Goals:

Get a romantic partner as a teen and get pregnant/get them pregnant. Modded: Teen pregnancy using NRAAS Woohooer + MC Vanilla: Become pregnant as a very young YA (first few days of age-stage)

Get into a huge fight with your parents when you tell them

Run away with your partner shortly after finding out you’re pregnant and move to an empty lot (or an abandoned building) with $0.

Do what you can as a runaway to make some money. (part time job, scavenge for collectables, etc).

Once you have an actual house (fully enclosed building / room, with a bed, sink, oven, counter, shower & toilet), you can apply for a job in the athletic career for a more stable income. (If your sims are runaway teens, they must also wait until they’re YAs).

Join the professional sports career and get to level 7 before quitting.

Max all skills listed above.

Complete one of the LTWs listed above.

Open your own gym / yoga studio (become an investment partner in a ‘gym’ community lot and eventually purchase it to become the owner)

Host your personal training sessions at your owned gym / yoga studio

Have three kids.

Go on frequent picnics with your cute little family.

Donate to charity at least 1x per week.

Have each child max at least one childhood / toddler skill. Toddler: Peg Box / Xylophone / Toddler Skill Books for Cooking or Writing or Logic Child: Blocks / Toy Oven

Go all out with gifts for your kids/partner on Snowflake Day.

Celebrate your sim's favourite holiday when it comes around: Snowflake Day (Get your sim to celebrate/decorate for it to the fullest)

Mod / CC Recommendations:

NRAAS Woohooer to enable teen pregnancy (guide here) 

Teen Maternity Wear CC (absolutely essential if you’re doing a teen pregnancy! Otherwise they will show up as a floating head)

NRAAS Careers + Self-Employed for Personal Trainer career

Yoga Mod by TwinSimming

See also my Mod / CC Recommendations List for off-grid living

You grew up in a loving and comfortable home. Your parents worked hard to give you everything you wanted but comfort was never enough. You dreamed of a life of true luxury, where you were financially abundant and free. You knew it wouldn’t be easy, but you had to try. As a young adult, you moved out, determined to make your own way. Using the skills you learned at home, you landed a part-time job at your local spa. But barely scraping by wasn’t the life you envisioned. You needed a way in, to insert yourself into the world of the wealthy. And what better way to do so than to marry into it?

You quit your job and set your sights on the political world, where the rich and powerful mingle. You studied hard, built your reputation, and quickly climbed the ranks. With your high charisma and growing fame, it wasn’t long before you caught the eye of someone influential. But there was a catch! They came from old money—and their entire family hated you. Everyone, except one of their siblings. They seem to have taken a liking to you…

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Snob

Neat

Ambitious

Diva

Frugal

Workaholic

LTW Options:

Gold Digger

Leader of the Free World

Living in the Lap of Luxury

Swimming in Cash

Lifestyle of the Rich & Famous

Skills:

Charisma

Logic

Violin (Blams EA Store)

Career:

Spa Specialist 

Political

Goals:

Max all skills listed above.

Complete one of the LTWs listed above.

Leave home immediately after becoming a young adult and move somewhere new.

Work at your local spa as a part-time spa specialist for the first five days.

Quit working at the spa and join the Political Career.

Get to Level 10 in the Political Career.

Start dating a wealthy sim and make their family HATE you - they must have at least one sibling.

Marry the wealthy sim.

Have an affair with your spouse's sibling. 

[OPTIONAL] Become at least a 3-Star Celebrity.

Live and dress in the old money aesthetic.

Live a luxurious life: go on luxurious holidays, have services that cater to your every need (butler, babysitters, maid, etc)

Neglect your kids and have the help raise them.

Only befriend other rich sims.

Get a Celebrity Gate for your house and fence it off.

Must host at least three political fundraiser parties.

Note: The goals for the next generation start as a Teen - make sure you read ahead!

Mod / CC Recommendations:

Violin from BlamsEAStore

Gardener Service by DouglasVeiga

Babysitter Mod by nnediz

Growing up, you always seemed to gravitate towards music. Your parents were super wealthy so of course they bought you the newest and coolest instruments. As a teen, you even started a band with some friends and often held jam sessions at your house. Once you left home, you decided to pursue music production, making the latest tracks for some of the biggest artists. Romance wasn’t really on your mind. Yeah, you would date around and have casual hookups, but it wasn’t until one day, you had an instant attraction to a sim and just HAD to get to know them. Your relationship was steamy, but shallow, as deep conversations were something neither of you had an interest in. 

You/your partner ended up falling pregnant so you decided to get married because of it. Once in married life, the relationship got toxic. All you could do was fight and have arguments. You even fought on your child's birthday. It was time for a divorce. Your now ex-partner took everything from you, disgracing your public image and forcing you and your child to move into a dingy trailer. How did your life fall apart before your eyes?

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Virtuoso

Good Sense of Humour

Childish

Flirty

Hot-Headed

Star Quality

Party Animal

LTW Options:

Rock Star

Golden Tongue, Golden Fingers

One Sim Band

Master of the Arts

Master Mixologist

Skills:

Guitar

Piano

Mixology

[OPTIONAL] DJ Turntable skill [Hidden]

Career:

1: Music (rockstar branch) OR Band (self-employed)

2: Part-Time Grocery Store Clerk

Goals:

As a teen, you and your friends have jam sessions at your house.

Max all skills listed above.

Complete one of the LTW options listed above.

Learn all the compositions on the Guitar and the Piano, and accept every music related opportunity you get

OPTIONAL: Can DJ at community lots (such as clubs) using the DJ booth from Showtime for some extra money.

Get to at least Level 6 of your music-related career

Get into a steamy relationship with a sim that yours finds very attractive.

Get a tattoo dedicated to your partner.

Get pregnant and marry because of the baby.

Have a toxic married life.

Have a HUGE argument on your heirs teen birthday and divorce your partner.

Get your ex-partner to take everything, leaving you with just enough money to get a dingy trailer. 

Get your sim addicted to something (e.g. alcohol, substances, woohoo, etc) - use your imagination here if you're not using mods, choose something for your sim to be ‘addicted’ to and have them partake in the activity at least once every 2 days

Quit being a musician (due to public slander) and start from the bottom of the part-time grocery clerk career

In your spare time, play for tips around town.

Can choose if you want your sim to have a happy ending (get married, recover from addiction) or stay depressed.

Have as many children as you want but the next gen heir has to be female. (can cheat if you like)

Note: The goals for the next generation start as a Teen - make sure you read ahead!

Mod / CC Recommendations:

More / Less Band Gigs & Music Opportunities by NonaMena

Sims Drinks by Ani & Drunk Walk Addon by FloTheory

Vile Ventures if you want to include drug use / addiction

You watched as your parents argued and argued until everything exploded on your birthday. You decided to rebel and purposely do bad in school, skip curfew, go out drinking and attend parties. Once a young adult, you decide to go to university and have casual hookups with a rotation of four sims. 

At a crazy college party, you hookup with all four of your sneaky links in one night and get pregnant… Without knowing who the father is. This news urges you to drop out of university and raise the child on your own, while juggling being a tattoo artist. I mean, how hard could raising a child be? 

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Artistic

Commitment-Issues

Irresistible 

Avant Garde

Unstable

Hot-Headed

Rebellious

LTW Options:

Illustrious Author

Master of the Arts

Street Credible

Skills:

Painting

Street Art

Tattooing [Hidden]

Career:

Self-Employed Painter OR Tattoo Artist

Goals:

As a teen, skip curfew and go out drinking often.

Max all skills listed above.

Complete one of the LTW options listed above.

Study fine arts in university.

Become affiliated with the Rebel Social Group and get up to at least Level 5 Influence with them

Hookup with four sims in one night and get pregnant. (use NRAAS Woohooer to alter the risky-woohoo pregnancy chance, OR you can just spin for the father on an online randomizer wheel)

Drop out of university and become a tattoo artist and/or join the painter career.

Can choose to rekindle things with the baby's father, one of your previous hookups or someone new.

Host costume parties on Spooky Day.

Spray graffiti on a community lot.

Dye your hair three times throughout your life.

Woohoo in five different woohoo locations.

Have a good relationship with your child/children.

Celebrate your sim's favourite holiday when it comes around: Spooky Day/Halloween 

[OPTIONAL] Have a self discovery moment and use the mid-life crisis LTR to change your commitment-issues trait to the family-oriented OR hopeless romantic trait. 

[OPTIONAL] Open an art gallery and showcase your art. (become a partner in and then the owner of an art gallery community lot) 

Note: The goals for the next generation start as a Teen - make sure you read ahead!

Mod / CC Recommendations:

NRAAS Careers + Tattoo Artist Custom Career by MadiMods

NRAAS Woohooer for Risky-Woohoo chance altering & easier woohoo options

Everything just seems to fall into place perfectly for you. From your amazing relationship with Gen 6, to being with your high school sweetheart, the one you’re sure you’ll marry someday. You know what, why wait? Right after graduation, you land a job as a Journalist (Gen 6 always asked for your feedback on their work, so why not get paid for your opinions?) and start planning your dream wedding. You go all out, celebrating with both your family and your fiancé’s. Everything is going perfectly! Until the night before the wedding. At your bach party, things get out of hand. You get totally wasted and end up having a secret hookup with your fiancé’s best friend. The next day, unable to face what you've done, you leave your fiancé at the altar and disappear to an off the grid lot.

There, in the quiet of nature, you begin to heal. You discover a deep love for the outdoors and animals. Slowly, you pick yourself back up, learning to garden, flower arrange, and eventually begin to make a profit from a small animal and produce farm. It’s not the life you planned, but it’s a life you’ve grown to love.

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Loves The Outdoors

Animal Lover

Clumsy

Bookworm

Coward

Brooding

Eco-Friendly

LTW Options:

Renaissance Sim

The Perfect Garden

The Animal Rescuer

The Ark Builder

ANY of the ‘Back to Nature’ Custom LTWs

Skills:

Gardening

Horse Riding

[OPTIONAL] Flower Arranging

[OPTIONAL] Knitting 

Career:

Farmer (you can choose to be a self-employed Gardener / Horseperson, or you can just sell your produce & animal products without an official employment title)

Goals:

As a teen, get into a relationship with your highschool sweetheart. 

Get engaged soon after becoming a young adult.

Get a job as a Journalist

Host at least three wedding-related parties. (e.g. engagement dinner, bach party, rehearsal dinner)

Have a drunk hookup with fiancé’s best friend the night before the wedding.

Leave your fiancé at the altar and run away to a new town or just a new lot far away from the middle of town.

Max all skills listed above.

Complete one of the LTW options listed above.

Live on an off the grid lot - unconnected from any nearby roads.

Have at least four different animals on your lot. (e.g. dogs, horses, cows, small pets)

Have one of your animals get pregnant and care for the resulting baby foal / puppy / kitten

Make your home eco-conscious with solar panels and wind turbines.

Have as many kids as you want.

Obtain the Fancy Festival Egg

[OPTIONAL] Set up a little shop where you sell your flower arrangements.

Note: The goals for the next generation start as a Child - make sure you read ahead!

Mod / CC Recommendations:

Flower Arranging & Knitting by zoe22

Blams Farm Objects: Chickens & Cows

Blams Renault Set: Solar Panels, Eco Cars & Wind Turbines

Back to Nature Custom LTWs by gamefreak130

See also my Off-Grid living CC / Mod list for more recs.

You were the perfect child. Respectful to your parents, hardworking in school, active in afterschool activities, and kind to everyone you met. Everything about your life seemed on track… until you met the local teenage delinquent, the one everyone warned you about. Something about them fascinated you. Their recklessness, their confidence, the thrill they carried, it was intoxicating. Against your better judgment, you started dating, and before long, you were hooked. You knew the things they did weren’t right, but you didn’t care. Being with them made you feel alive. That was the beginning of your descent into a life of mischief and crime. You dove headfirst into their world, and together you swore, it was you and them against the world.

Straight after graduating high-school, everything changed. You found out the two of you were expecting a baby. You moved in together, and it wasn’t long before you realized your partner was deeper into the criminal underworld than you’d ever imagined. But you stayed. You were loyal. Years passed in a blur. One child became two, then three. Your home was full, and your nights were spent working in the shadows. It was a given that this life was dangerous, but you never thought it would end so soon… leaving behind children who now must navigate the world alone.

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Genius 

Hopeless Romantic

Kleptomaniac

Athletic

Brave

Daredevil

Rebellious

LTW Options:

Become a Master Thief

The Emperor of Evil

Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law

Skills:

Handiness

Fitness

Career:

Criminal (Either Branch) OR Mobster

Goals:

As a child, do well in school.

Start your teen life stage as the perfect student.

Start dating a delinquent teen and change your overall style to fit with theirs. (e.g. get tattoos, get piercings, dye your hair, etc)

Join the part-time Delinquent Career at the Criminal Warehouse alongside your partner as a teen. 

Max all skills listed above.

In the first week of being a young adult, get pregnant. (they will be the heir)

Move into a small, run down home.

Reach at least level 7 of the criminal (or Mobster) career.

Your partner must also be in the same career, they should always be at least 1 level higher than you.

Have three enemies.

Make friends with 3 other Evil or Kleptomaniac sims and host paries with them regularly (this is your ‘gang’)

Kill a sim.

Have a total of 6 children.

OPTIONAL: Open a laundromat where you “launder” money.

Once you have completed everything above and your eldest is at least a teen, you and your partner must die. (an operation gone wrong?)

Mod / CC Recommendations:

NRAAS Careers + Part-Time Delinquent Career + Mobster Career

Dexter the Bear &/ Weapons system &/ Violence and Agression Mods

They’re gone. Your parents are gone and they’ve left you to raise your five younger siblings on your own. You knew you had no choice or you’d all end up in the foster care system. So you quit school and devote your life to raising your siblings to the best of your ability, putting your entire life on hold. Luckily, your best friend was there to help you every step of the way! Part time and odd jobs were definitely not enough to put food on the table, but you had to wait until you were a young adult to be able to apply for something consistent. But it seems you weren’t cut out for corporate life. So you took gigs as a freelance sculptor.  You refused to let your siblings struggle like you did, so you do everything you can to put them through school and set them up for success. Once they’ve all moved out, that's when you can start living life!

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Family-Oriented

Savvy Sculptor

Nurturing

Neat

Couch Potato

LTW Options:

Jack of All Trades

Descendant of Da Vinci

Swimming in Cash

Skills:

Sculpting

Cooking

Career:

1: Any rabbithole careers / part time jobs / self-employed odd jobs

2: Self-Employed Sculptor 

Goals:

Have a childhood best friend. 

Have a childhood enemy. (you get into fights just like your parents)

Max all skills listed above.

Do what you can to make money. (part time job, odd jobs, busking, hacking, writing, etc)

As a young adult, get to level 5 of at least 3 careers before quitting (or getting fired) and becoming a self-employed sculptor. 

Have your best friend stay over occasionally to help out with your siblings.

Go out with the family once a week.

Eventually fall in love with your childhood enemy.

Move them in and start a family together.

Once each sibling is a young adult, give them $5,000 to move out with. (for an extra challenge, make it $10,000)

[OPTIONAL] cheat on your childhood enemy with your best friend and divorce.

Note: The goals for the next generation start as a Child - make sure you read ahead!

Growing up, you watched your parent sacrifice everything for their siblings, leaving little time or energy to focus on you. It didn’t help that you were the weird kid. The background blur. The one who never got invited. You spent your childhood in oversized hoodies, headphones in, hiding from the world and you’d often get teased because of it. But when you aged up into a young adult, you made a decision! You weren’t going to stay invisible. You hit the gym, got a new wardrobe, started posting selfies, and suddenly, the world noticed. The “you” they ignored is now the one they all want. The transformation is shocking. You become everything they said you couldn't be. 

Traits (pick at least 3 - the rest are up to you):

Loser (This trait is compulsory until your sim is a YA, then you can swap it for something else)

Shy

Ambitious

Star Quality

Photographer’s Eye

Athletic

Disciplined 

Diva

LTW Options:

Perfect Mind, Perfect Body

Super Popular

Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous

Superstar Actor

World-Class Gallery

Blog Artist

Skills:

Social Networking

Athletic

Photography 

Career:

Actor OR Self-Employed Photographer

Goals:

Max all skills listed above.

As a child and teen, you're a complete outcast: low social, no friends, avoid parties, plain outfits.

Glow up as a young adult: start hitting the gym, have a complete makeover.

Become famous through your transformation (create a popular blog)

Reach Level 10 of the Acting or Photographer Career.

Throw a dramatic “revenge party” to show off your success.

Always entertain the paparazzi.

Marry a celebrity.

Have Movie Nights once a week with your partner / your kids.

Become a 5-Star Celebrity.

Take professional photo shoots with your little family at a photo studio.

Fall for a fan or colleague.

Divorce your partner.