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RoM - MASTER MAGIC!
🕑 Added 2020-08-30 09:56:42 +0000 UTCMagic Schools Made Relevant
PLUS: Ask the Sages to be your teachers and build a relationship with special interactions!
READING THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS MOD IS MADATORY
This mod modifies in game mechanics and has some incompatibilities, I'll not give support if you didn't read.
This mod requires the XML INJECTOR
So Maxis gave us three schools of magic that matters NOTHING. I've been wanting to do this mod for a while but I knew that, while not technically difficult, it was a pain in the ass. In the end I decided to just do it...
What's the purpose of this mod?
The purpose of the mod is personalize your mage by giving them a specialization in one of the three schools. Being a specialized mage means that when try to use magic from another school of magic, they'll fail more often than not. The purpose is purely story telling/roleplay, i didn't add a bonus for the spells of the chosen school, because, honestly, there is no need... they already barely fails at magic.
This mod adds three traits you can pick from:
Mischief Mage: specialized in Mischief Magic, they stand more or less in the middle. They have a hard time casting spells from other schools, but not as much as an Untamed mage casting Practical spells. They're more in line with Untamed Magic.
Untamed Mage: specialized in Untamed Magic, they have a hard time with Practical spells, not so much with mischief ones, especially the one in line with their school (like the fight spell). Be ware that Untamed Magic is the harder to use if you're not a specialist.
Practical Mage: specialized in Practical Magic, they have a hard time with Untamed spells. Not so much with mischief ones, especially the ones in line with their school, like the transform and the love spell.
How do you become a specialized Mage?
The Sages have new interactions. You can ask your chosen Sage to become your teacher:
You can also ask them information about their school of magic before choosing. You can drop the teacher at any time, but you'll not be able to have them as teachers again, if you do.
If you drop your teacher, you'll be able to pick another.
Once you picked a Sage, you'll still be able to learn from the other ones, but not ask them to be your teacher. Having a teacher will give you the specialization trait:
At this point, my modifications to the success and failure rate of the spells will apply.
You will have special interactions with your teacher! You can, for example, ask them about magic or about the magic realm:
And they will ACTUALLY teach you:
Once learned the Ultimate Spell, you can ask them to complete your training, at that point you will have a new interaction to ask your ex-teacher for advice (the informative interactions about magic and the magic realm will not be available anymore, since at that point you should be well versed in that.) The chosen Sage will show in the relationship panel as your teacher.
Interactions with teachers:
Ask Lesson - They will give you some information about the various spells in their school of magic. These are in line with Maxis canon in order to fit everyone's game.
Chit-Chat - you can now just chit chat with your teacher! Maybe you'll get a gift.
PLAY AS THE SAGE: If you play as the sage, you'll have the options to ask your students about their progresses and to chit chat with them.
Bonuses:
Untamed Mages: build less charge
Mischief Mages: increase mischief skill faster
Practical Mages: gain more XP
Mischief Mages can tell the future!
This is an ability only Mischief Mages have (they have less spells than the others in vanilla, so...).
You can ask a Mischief Mage to tell your future (they can't tell other Mischief Mages future, though) and there are 4 outcomes:
Neutral - no effects
Bright - affects positively your sim day
Bad - affect negatively your sim day
Doom - better send your sim to bed...
They can tell their own future by looking in the mirror, the outcomes are the same.
Under Faba's request: there is a new Mischief interaction exclusive to Mischief Mages: Predict Doom, with this, they can actively ruin another sim day.
The emotional buffs last few hours, the effects last 24 hours.
Untamed Mages can cast Curses!
These are not Maxis curses (they're set to work only on Witches and are jokes, anyway), these are brand new curses I did from scratch. There are 5 custom curses, in order:
Curse Of Misfortune - makes the sim have a very bad luck.
Curse Of Infinite Loneliness - no social interaction for the sim under this curse will succeed.
Curse Of Perpetual Flame - it will be very likely for the sim under this curse to accidentally cause a fire...
Curse Of Unreachable Happiness - the sim under this curse will not feel happiness... or any positive emotion, for what matters. on the other hand, negative emotions will be twice as strong as normal.
Evil Eye - all the above, all together.
The curses unlock as you rank up, you'll not find them in the spell book. And they have their own category (curses). The first one unlocks at rank 2.
Be ware that there is a rule in Magic... when you use magic to cause harm, you risk bringing the same harm into your life... yep, these curses increment YOUR risk to get a curse, too... even when you succeed casting them.
Practical Mages can remove the above Curses!
At Rank 2, they can remove them from themselves, at Rank 3, they can be asked to remove them, too. Only Practical Mages can remove the curse cast by an Untamed Mage.
Options:
Make it mandatory - the system IS NOT mandatory by default. meaning that you can have the option without being forced to use it. There is a package to make it MANDATORY, it will remove the "ask to teach spell" interaction until you chose a Sage.
Specialized Sages - Makes the sages Specialized Mages by default. This option is not compatible with Play As The Sage, Play As The Sages is integrated by default. If you use it, DON'T INSTAL THE BUFFS PACKAGE.
Untamed Spells - the modified untamed spells are not compatible with Untamed Magic is Untamed, Untamed Magic is untamed is integrated by default. If you use Untamed Magic is Untamed don't install:
Zero_RoM_MasterMagic_SpecializedMages_UntamedSpells.package
Otherwise you need it.
Traditional Witchcraft: becoming a traditional witch will remove the specialization
Magical Training: Asking your teacher for Magical Training will unlock spells in the relative school of Magic, plus the Sages are able to offer the Magical Training autonomously, AND the option to ask/offer Magical training is always available with Sages regardless of rank, even if you're not a student of that school. Asking a Sage for training when not a student will not unlock spells, though.
HERE IS HOW THE MOD SHOULD LOOK LIKE WITH ALL OPTIONS ACTIVE AND ALL OTHER MY MODS THAT CONFLICT WITH IT:
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UPDATE:
14/08/22
Pre-Werewolves Patch Update
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Comments
Obscure Effler
I have many translations of Zero's mods into Portuguese, in case you want them, here is my Tumblr. https://obscureeffler.tumblr.com/
Zero_
Thanks for the very nice comment!
naltamire
*rolls in 6 months late with the most obnoxious coffee order ever (cold brew with oat milk; at least I made it at home?* Finally going on my much-dreaded update-all-your-mods odyssey and your site is always one of my first stops. I am so fuckin EXCITED about all of this new stuff and updates to some of the older stuff! I love dark magic like you're doing and I am so excited to play this. Someday. Maybe at midnight after I've updated all my shit. Anyway, I love the Harry Potter fantasy shit equally, but EA just fuckin' completely botched the execution of that and it's not even fun to play, so 0/2, EA vs Zero. Thank you for improving my game and being an awesome content creator. I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but if I had to play a vanilla version of this game, I would've ragequit years ago. This why I *choose* to throw a dollar at you every month - because you *choose* to make my game fun for free. Enjoy this little novella in your comments and thank you for being awesome, Zero! :)
Zero_
first thing, check the Injector. You can check it from your sims phone, there is a testing interaction, it should give you a notification
Cloud
hey, im just a little stuck, i have everything i need for the mod but the option to ask a sage to be my teacher dosnt come up, i have the base mod and the Mandatory specialization and still nothing shows up, is there anything im doing wrong?
Zero_
Yup... untamed magic is untamed already includes what's needed for the specialization to work+
Koffen
Another question though. if I have the package Zero- VampireWitches_Spells_UNTAMED, should I skipp the Zero_MasterMagic_SpecializedMages_UntamedSpells? I still want untamed magic Is untamed version 2 in my game for both humans and vampires.
Zero_
Nope, vampire magic works in another way, I'm afraid introducing this system would make casting spells with vampires way too hard.
Koffen
Does this work with vampire magic as well, can vampires become specialized mages too?
Zero_
You lose your mastery and the ability to learn from that teacher again. I'm not maxis, decisions have consequences.
Kudaria
Am I reading this right that you can master one branch and then change teachers and master another? or do you lose you mastery with changing your teacher?
Kellie Schiavone
This looks like such a cool mod. I'm glad you made the effects optional, so some mages can choose to specialize and others can be generalists. More storytelling possibilities! Thank you so very much!
trail_of_blood
Hi! I translated the mod into Russian. http://simfileshare.net/folder/109791/
Zero_
I go maniac from time to time, ahah.
Angie Costa
"You’re a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant, but scary." From HP1 PS: Please, don't ever stop! ;)
Zero_
The modifications done to this one are only on the success/failure rate for non untamed mages, the effects of the spells are vanilla. Untamed Magic is untamed also makes those spells dangerous.
Danna McPheron
This is too awesome! Makes the RoM pack more worthwhile to play. I have a question about the modifications made to "Zero_MasterMagic_SpecializedMages_UntamedSpells". What kind of modifications were done to this file so I can compare to the V1 and V2 files in the other thread on Untamed Spells? Many thanks to these great mods you made!
Zero_
There is a way to make the spells succeed but you need the perk master caster and charge. At least the perk is useful for something
Kristel
Watching my teen witch fail at "Scrubaroo" over and over again (after committing to Untamed Magic) was also oddly satisfying. Thank you again for adding some challenge to this part of the game.
Zero_
I have more to add to the mischief mages... coming soon
Kristel
Thank you for this, I really enjoyed playing with it yesterday. I also installed the mod that requires a higher relationship with the sages to ask them to be your teacher, and Faba is so mean that my sim couldn’t build a relationship with her! That was nice because it adds some unpredictability to the game.
Zero_
Yes, the Vampire part is all custom tunings so it doesn't conflict. Black Magic and Traditional Witchcraft are not affected at all. Without the modified file my modifications will not apply to the fire, freeze and lightning spells on sims.
Hissu
Is it ok to use "Zero- VampireWitches_Spells_UNTAMED" part of the vampire witches mod with this? I also use Zero_RoM_UntamedmagicIsUntamed-V1in my game and I'm going to test this Master Magic without the modified untamed magic-part now. I also use Black magic and traditional witchcraft. Sorry if this information is written somewhere, I tried to read all, but still a bit feverish mind I think.
Angie Costa
You did it! I can't believe you did it! This is a game changer! Now finally my sim will be able to start small and upgrade if they want to do so LATER. This is so exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed (I've been sick lately, but I'm getting better. Thanks for the wishes, btw). When you put your mind to something, you really do it. I admire this so much! 💕 Thanks for sharing this with us!
