The John Family Tree (Chapter 1)

Getting Started

Hello, World, fellow Simmers, fellow bloggers, and blog followers!

I am super excited because this is my first blog ever, and my first official Sims 4 Legacy Challenge!

If you aren't familiar with the Legacy Challenge, it's a set of self-imposed rules that Simmers can choose to follow in order to make the game more interesting for themselves (and others who are following their story.) I may slightly touch on rules here and there, but if you want to review the rules in depth, you can find them here.

To start out, I made a young adult male named Johnny John as my Founder Sim. (I know the name is horrible. It was randomized. I thought it was kind of funny, though, so I kept it.)

Meet Johnny John.

I can't decide if he looks Asian or maybe French... Maybe if he wore a beret...

I also randomized his Aspiration and all three of his Traits. The results were:

1. The Angling Ace aspiration (he wants to know everything about fishing),

2. The Active trait (he tends to be Energized, can Pump Up other Sims, and may become upset if he doesn't exercise for a period of time),

3. The Music Lover trait (he gains powerful Moodlets and boosts his Fun Need when Listening to Music and becomes Happy when playing instruments),

and

4. The Romantic trait (he tends to be Flirty and may become Sad if he doesn't have any Romantic social interactions for a period of time.)

All-in-all, I was very pleased with how the randomization worked out. They're all pretty positive traits, and it should be pretty easy to keep him happy.

For this Legacy Challenge I chose the Strict Patriarchy Gender Law which means the Founder must be male (which he obviously is), and only boys are eligible to be named heir. Female children cannot, under any circumstance, ever be the heir to the next generation. I chose the Strict Traditional Bloodline Law which means that in order to be eligible to be named Heir, a child must be naturally born from their previous-generation parents and must be able to trace an unbroken bloodline back to the Founder. Adopted children may never be named heir. Finally, I chose the First Born Heir Law, which means the oldest, by order of joining the family, eligible living child is named heir.

These Succession Laws is what I think of as "hard mode" because only naturally born boys can be named Heir. (We very well may see a Henry VIII situation at some point during this Challenge.)

As per the rules, I started Johnny John out on a blank 50x50 lot with a suit of armor in his family inventory. This left me with very little money, so all he has right now is:

A cheap fridge, two counters, a cheap sink, a cheap toilet, a cheap bathtub, and a cheap single bed. No. Walls.

Stay tuned for his first bare minimum week of his Sim life...