Variations!

Variations:

This is a growing list of variations to the Double Life Legacy. Players may choose to add any 

combination of the below variations to their legacy play through or submit their own variations 

of the Double Life Legacy for people to try out.

• Single Lot Love:

Players may either build or download off the gallery a multi unit or apartment build 

containing at least two separate homes on a single lot. In this variant players founders 

may move in each of their families on the lot using door locks to limit mobility of 

non-founder sims to move between units.

Bonus: Less movement between homes and ability to focus on families A & B 

simultaneously

Drawbacks: Household size caps at 8 making marrying out spares crucial to survival.
Increased potential for jealousy/discovery

• Homewrecker Legacy:

Additional requirement all spouses must come from pre-existing families & relationships.
Increased difficulty in woo-ing prospective spouses
Potential for additional children from pre-existing marriages. These children may
either be included in the legacy home or sent away to live with the exes

• Randomized Legacy:

All sims including founders must have their traits, aspirations, & careers randomly 

assigned using a random sim creator or dice rolls.

Increased variability for re-plays and potential for hilarious results

2. Collector Challenge:
   Player must randomly choose which 5 collections will be completed before starting their legacy.
   Optional added challenge: Only sims who have randomly rolled the Curator aspiration 
   may collect gems/frogs etc. Similarly only Botanist sims may collect plants, only Angler
   Sims may Fish, and so forth. 

• Big Love

Heirs & Spares may only share two same parents if they are the result of a single 

conception. The requirement for two births per family per generation remains but players 

must abide by an additional rule that no two children may share the same two parents. 

Players may wish to download a pre-existing save or load their game with available sims 

for the increase in required spouses.

Players using this variant may award themselves additional points for maintain the initial 
dating/relationship event requirements. Perhaps 20 points per additional spouse in each 
generation. In this variation players may choose to keep all remaining spouses/love
interests as dating their heirs or may opt to marry and divorce their spouse before
moving onto their second spouse.

• Traditional Hierarchy 

Throw back to the OG Legacy Challenge players may choose to start their challenge 

with pre-existing conditions for inheritance.

Patriarchy/Matriarchy

Adoptive/Genetic

Alien/Human

Vampire/Human

Legacy Trait/Merit Heirs: Choose a trait your founder has, only children with this trait are eligible 
to become the heir.

Willed Heir: Children with the highest relationship to their founder/current gen heir will inherit. Alternating inheritance (I.e. Gen 1 male heir Gen 2 female heir or biological heirs followed

by adopted heirs etc)

• •  Loved from Afar 
  This challenge simply changes Gen 1 insofar as players may no longer transfer their founder 
  between households
  Forces players to choose which family branch their founder will live in & which branch they will 
  only visit
  Players should still make an effort to parent their secondary household but will be unable to 
  monitor their family sims moods/skill gains as effectively
  Players may only switch into the secondary family to play them AFTER the death of the founder,
  then play should return to normal alteration between households.