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eulaliaBits and bobs about supernatural inheritance in Veridia that I mostly wrote for my own reference, but I know I like reading about how people handle these sort of things in their game, so I’m just gonna slap it up here:
Now that Veridia’s population is actually growing, I’ve been using bog standard number rolls to decide who inherits magic/lycanthropy. It’s not at all meant to mimic genetic inheritance, because it’s magic.
Sims who have one parent with a supernatural life state get a d2 roll. 1 = yes and 2 = no. For Helenet and Elmet’s kids, I roll twice, one for each supernatural state. So Lune and Fiona could witches, werewolves, both, or neither.
Some sims like Maddan have at least one parent with a supernatural state even if it didn’t manifest in them. If such a sim has children with another “mundane” sim, their child has a 1 in 4 chance of inheriting, where a 1 = inheritance.
(For sims who only have a great-grandparent with a supernatural state, I may not bother to roll at all. If I do it’ll be something like a d10 where again 1 = inheritance.)
Maddan and Orla’s children have a 3 in 4 chance of inheriting magic because of Maddan’s ancestry (1 = no inheritance and all other numbers are positive).
Does all this gibberish mean the children of two sims with the same supernatural state will always inherit it?
Well, we have sims like, again, Maddan (child of two witches with no magic), so that can’t be. So instead there’s a d6 roll, where 1 = no inheritance and all other numbers = inheritance.
If Wyll’s witch families sounded somewhat incestuous in that other lore post, this is why.
Obviously werewolves can also pass on their lycanthropy by biting (under a full moon, except that’s only a thing in my head and not the game). Elmet and Arturo are Very Responsible wolves, though, so I don’t see that happening again soon. I also won’t be using the spell to turn other sims into witches, but they probably arise spontaneously in the “normal” population from time to time. When will that happen in game? idk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve got the beginnings of an idea for vampire lore (something to do with a cave in Drossburh/a cult/a death god), but I have no inclination to explore it further than that yet, lol.
Now that Veridia’s population is actually growing, I’ve been using bog standard number rolls to decide who inherits magic/lycanthropy. It’s not at all meant to mimic genetic inheritance, because it’s magic.
Sims who have one parent with a supernatural life state get a d2 roll. 1 = yes and 2 = no. For Helenet and Elmet’s kids, I roll twice, one for each supernatural state. So Lune and Fiona could witches, werewolves, both, or neither.
Some sims like Maddan have at least one parent with a supernatural state even if it didn’t manifest in them. If such a sim has children with another “mundane” sim, their child has a 1 in 4 chance of inheriting, where a 1 = inheritance.
(For sims who only have a great-grandparent with a supernatural state, I may not bother to roll at all. If I do it’ll be something like a d10 where again 1 = inheritance.)
Maddan and Orla’s children have a 3 in 4 chance of inheriting magic because of Maddan’s ancestry (1 = no inheritance and all other numbers are positive).
Does all this gibberish mean the children of two sims with the same supernatural state will always inherit it?
Well, we have sims like, again, Maddan (child of two witches with no magic), so that can’t be. So instead there’s a d6 roll, where 1 = no inheritance and all other numbers = inheritance.
If Wyll’s witch families sounded somewhat incestuous in that other lore post, this is why.
Obviously werewolves can also pass on their lycanthropy by biting (under a full moon, except that’s only a thing in my head and not the game). Elmet and Arturo are Very Responsible wolves, though, so I don’t see that happening again soon. I also won’t be using the spell to turn other sims into witches, but they probably arise spontaneously in the “normal” population from time to time. When will that happen in game? idk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve got the beginnings of an idea for vampire lore (something to do with a cave in Drossburh/a cult/a death god), but I have no inclination to explore it further than that yet, lol.
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