The Optional Rules

These are extras some of our members contributed. You may add them to your challenge experience if you wish.

The Random Heir
Once you know how many children your Sims need to have, Roll a random number between 1 and <Number of Children>. The number rolled will be the number child born (in chronological order) who must be heir.

If playing this rule, you are not allowed under any circumstances to influence any of your children's gender.



Goals For Pets (requires Pets expansion)
These are optional goals are similar to the miscellaneous goals for your sims in section E. These Pet goals are entirely optional, you do not have to roll or choose one just because you have pets in your family. As these are optional rules, you may simply choose one from the list if you feel like giving your pets a goal to achieve, or you may roll for it for than random flavor.

If rolling, roll between 1 and 4.


1. Fulfilled: Similar to the Fulfilled goal for Sims, you must fulfill all the promised wants for every major pet (cats, dogs or horses) you have in this generation. You may not cancel (right click) any wish you have promised, unless the target of the wish is no longer available (i.e. a promised wish to sniff someone who dies before the wish is fulfilled) or cannot be completed due to game errors/weirdness.

2. Perfectionist: Each major pet in this generation must max a skill (hunting for dogs and cats, and choose either Jumping or Racing for horses). Note: This rules requirement has been reduced to simply maxing one skill, as in testing it proved too difficult to achieve the skill challenges as well. But of course you may still strive for that.

3. Fighter: (Cats and Dogs only. Re-roll if you only have Horses for this generation). Choose one of your cats or dogs to be a Fighter for this generation. This pet will have to get in a fight with another animal every week. The fight can be with other pets, in the same household, or strays or neighbor pets, or raccoons. Taking down stalked prey does not count as a fight.

4. Explorer: Your pet likes to explore the world. At least once a week, your chosen pet goes off on his/her own to visit a park or other location to play, hunt, explore or whatever pet things they like to do.

Optional 10 Generation Goals
These are optional goals that would run the full 10 generations of your legacy, something that each generation must contribute to. You may either choose one (or more if you are feeling ambitious) from the list, or you may roll for it as you do the regular goals. Whatever you choose or roll will be in effect for the entire legacy.

If rolling, roll between 1 and 6.


1. Remember the Past- Historians document the famous faces of the past, and your family doesn't want to be forgotten. Create a portrait of each of your 10 heirs and hang them within your house. These portraits can be painted, sculpted, or photographed.

2. Pet People-
Some people just love animals, and this quality seems to run strong in your Sims. Raise a family of dogs, cats, or horses for 10 generations. (So, have a 10 generation family of dogs, cats, or horses.) Depending on the life span of your Sims and your animal of choice, this goal will not last for all 10 generations of your legacy.

3. Hall of Fame- Your family's accomplishments are so important that they deserve a house of their very own. Create a museum that catalogs the achievements of your legacy family. For each heir, create one portrait (painting, sculpture, or photograph) and hang it in the museum. Also, display and showcase your heirs' various accomplishments from their high school diplomas to their achievement awards (certificates of level 10 skills and career related trophies). If your heir has created any masterpieces in their line of work or relating to their hobbies, these can also be added to the museum. For example, if your Sim is an author, add a bookshelf to the museum to hold all their novels, or if they were an artist hang up a few of their paintings. Along with their portrait, each heir needs to be somehow represented within the museum. This can be related to your heir's career (as explained earlier) or their hobbies or traits.

The museum must be built on a lot outside your Sim's home. It can be as small or large as you wish, but must be created (or at least started) before your fourth generation takes over. Furthermore, if you decide to move your family to a new town after you've already built the museum, you can either:

A) Take all the objects and portraits from your museum and put them in a new museum in your new neighborhood.

B) Save your museum to the bin and place the entire lot in your new neighborhood.

C) Start a new museum in your new neighborhood and leave all the old memorabilia behind.

4. Skilled- Perfection is the aim, and skilling is the game. Each of your 10 heirs need to learn and max a different skill unrelated to their careers. For each generation, choose a skill to have your heir focus on in their spare time. These skills can overlap from generation to generation if necessary. So, even if your generation 1 heir chooses to max the charisma skill for example, you are still free to choose that skill for any future generation. Mixing up the different skills is encouraged but not required.

5. Wish Upon A (Different) Star- Shoot for the stars, or in the case of your family a new star for a new generation. Each of your 10 heirs must fulfill their lifetime wish. Furthermore, each of their wishes must be different than any other heir's lifetime wish.

6. Real Estate Powerhouse- Your family dreams of owning every building in town. For every generation, your heir must purchase a new property around town. These can be venues or rabbitholes, and you are free to collect money off of them and improve them. Try to relate which building your heir purchases with their personality. A bookworm might buy the library whereas a family oriented Sim might be interested in a playground. A grumpy Sim might want to purchase the graveyard. When you buy venues, try to customize and personalize the property to the tastes of that generation.

As optional goals, failing to meet one of these requirements does not mean you fail the challenge. These are simply ideas to make your legacy a bit more difficult and interesting.


More Generation Goals
There are 19 Generational Goals in the challenge. Here are more you can add to spice things up!

20. Redemption Arc
Your heir begins to regret their actions. Choose one or both of the following:
(A) Change a relationship with another sim from Nemesis to Best Friend or higher.
(B) Quit their career (after making significant progress; at least level 5) because something about it was destructive / corrupt. Your heir may take another career of their choice as long as it makes significantly less cash than the first career. You may need to do a little research to determine what would be appropriate, or impose strict limits on self-employed careers. For example, they could take up fishing, but only sell 500 simoleons of fish per week, or something.

21. Self-Destructive
Over the course of their life, your heir must tank at least two relationships they had previously maxed out all the way green. Make them enemies, or even a nemesis. The type of relationship (friend, romance, family...) does not matter. In addition, your heir takes up at least one destructive habit or behavior that they engage in at least twice per week if not more. This activity can be your choice, but must negatively impact your sim's career or relationships in some way. (Examples might be staying up too late and being so tired it impacts work performance, or missing work altogether.) The destructive habit does not have to be in place for your heir's entire life, but must start at least before the YA stage has ended.


22. Self Improvement
Change a trait for the better (or worse, but your sim thinks it will be better) before your heir is an elder. The heir must have had the trait for an entire age state (teen, ya, adult, etc). Examples could be a slob becoming neat, someone socially awkward becoming friendly or a social butterfly, someone athletic becoming a couch potato, etc. You can get a creative with this; the new trait doesn't have to be in direct conflict, but it should be very different (clumsy to disciplined, equestrian, savvy sculptor instead of athletic, for example, or mean-spirited to charismatic instead of friendly).

More Miscellaneous Fun
There are 20 Misc. Fun rolls in the challenge. Here are more you can add to spice things up!

21. Grew Out of It
Change the heir's clothing or decorating style, habits, friends or hobbies drastically between at least two age states of your choice. Only one category has to be changed, but you can change more than that if you wish. For a silly example: a sim dresses in all pink as a child, then all black as a teen and adult, then in polka dots as an elder.


22. They Mean Well
Your heir wants to help someone else change for the better! ... whether they enjoy it or not. At least once per week, take a friend or family member for activities that conflict with their traits. For example, invite a sim who Hates the Outdoors to the park, or have your heir learn charisma and tutor a sim who is Socially Awkward.


23. Philanthropy
Give a gift to someone outside of the household at least once per week. Try to make it a gift that a sim needs or would want (i.e. a recipe book to a cook, seeds or fish to a gardener, comics book to a nerd, etc). Gift giving party does not replace this requirement.


24. Memoirs
Your sim writes a single book about their life by the time they are an elder, then proceeds to give copies of it to at least five people as a gift. They may have to skill writing without making money, depending on the kind of book you want them to write. If your sim is in the writing career, it must be a Masterpiece, Life Story, or Autobiography.