There are constantly two things on my mind and they are Taylor Swift and The Sims so here’s a fun lil thing I put together since I had no plans this weekend. (I actually started writing this a year ago)
I know some people have done similar challenges inspired by Taylor so feel free to bend the rules to your liking, each gen it’s based mostly on the ✨vibes✨ of each era.
If you do play it and want to share it here or anywhere else you can use #theeraslegacychallenge cuz I’d love to see it
Gen 1: Debut 💚
Hold on to your horses kid, you’re about to become the new country music star from Chestnut Ridge and find your place in this world 🤠
Aspiration: Musical Genius
Traits: Cheerful, loves outdoors, Music lover.
Career: Entertainment
Rules:
start on an empty lot with nothing but a guitar
complete the aspiration and reach top of career
Master the guitar and singing skills
Have a breakup before finding spouse
Celebrate every winter fest
Live in Chestnut Ridge all your life
• Keep your first guitar to pass on to your children
Gen 2: Fearless 💛
Oh golden child it’s a love story just say yes! This gen starts when your sim is a teen 🫶🏼
Aspiration: serial romantic
Traits: Romantic, family oriented and horse lover
Career: Actress (sweet sweet superstar)
Rules:
get a (white) horse as a child
Complete a teen aspiration
Marry your highschool sweetheart
Master the horse training and charisma skills
Have at least 3 children
Complete the serial romantic aspiration
Keep your first gold horse competition medal to pass on to your kids
Gen 3: Speak now 💜
Next chapter! Time for some sparks to fly
Aspiration: Academic
Traits: Bookworm, cat lover, geek
Career: education
Rules:
be a spellcaster
Interrupt the wedding of your future spouse (since there’s no actual option to do this you can play it out however you want)
Have a cat (or 3)
Get a degree in university
Get the dragon familiar
Master the the writing skill
• Write a book called the story of us to pass on as an heirloom
Gen 4: Red ❤️
It feels like a perfect Gen to dress up as hipsters and make fun of our exes
Aspiration: Successful lineage
Traits: Snob, romantic, hot headed
Career: Writer
Rules:
Have a big break up as young adult
Start your career after said breakup
Name one of your books All Too Well
Master the writing and knitting skills
Reach the top of your career
Keep one of your knitting projects as an heirloom
Gen 5: 1989 🩵
Welcome to San Myshuno! You came to the big city after leaving your family home to live your wildest dreams and never went out of style
Aspiration: City Native
Traits: ambitious, insider, dance machine
Career: Style influencer
Rules:
move to San Myshuno as a young adult
Master the photography and dancing skills
Have a close group of friends and go out to parties often
Decorate your room with pictures of your life
Have only one child
The heirloom for this Gen is a picture of your sim by the sea
Gen 6: reputation 🖤
Ready for it? You don’t love the drama it loves you
Aspiration: Master Vampire
Traits: Loyal, Art lover, high maintenance
Career: writer - journalist branch then reaper
Rules:
Get turned into a vampire as a young adult
Get fired from your writer job after reaching the journalist branch
Wear a piece of the delicate jewelry set with your at least one outfit
At some point get a low reputation then raise it back up
Master the vampire lore aspiration
Get the vampire cure after your heir has grown up
• The delicate jewelry piece is this gen’s heirloom
Gen 7: Lover 🩷
You will be complex, you will be cool
Aspiration: Soulmate
Traits: Romantic, cat lover, creative
Career: business- management branch as a young adult then romance consultant as an adult
Rules:
live in a suburban house inspired by the lover house
Help your parent find the vampire cure
Have a holiday with your family every summer
Have a cat
Master the painting and mixology skills
Reach the top of one of your careers and complete the aspiration
Keep one of your painting as an heirloom
Gen 8: Folklore 🩶
You had a marvelous time growing everything!
Aspiration: Renaissance sim
Traits: loves outdoors, loner, bookworm
Career: Gardening - floral designer branch
Rules:
live in a cottage in henford on bagley or brindleton bay
Have a well kept garden
Write books in your free time but do not sell them
Be in a love triangle as a teen
Master the herbalism, floral arranging and baking skills
Craft an heirloom of your choosing
Gen 9: Evermore 🤎
Life was Willow and it bend right to your wind
Aspiration: Spellcraft and sorcery
Traits: Bookworm, genius, clumsy
Career: detective
Rules:
Become a spellcaster
Live in Glimmerbrook
Master the nectar making skill
Complete the tarot collection
Complete you aspiration and quit your job as an adult
After quitting become a home chef
Keep an excellent quality nectar bottle as this gens heirloom
Gen 10: Midnights 💙
Best believe you’re still bejeweled!
And also you’re like some kind of congressman
Aspiration: Crystal crafter
Traits: music lover, overachiever, snob
Career: Politician
Rules:
Complete the crystal crafter aspiration
Get fired from your career at some point
After getting fired make a living from selling jewelry
Master the gemology and piano skills
Keep your favorite piece of jewelry as this gen’s heirloom
Gen 11: Tortured poets 🤍
So tortured so poetic
Aspiration: bestselling author
Traits: gloomy, bookworm, romantic
Career: Writer
Rules:
marry a sim in the athlete career
Master the writing skill
Complete the aspiration and get the poetic trait
Have a room with all the previous generations heirlooms
Write a book for each of the 31 songs on TTPD
See you next Era!
