Note - I'm a firm believer in cross-pack integration and functionality. If a new pack can have some features that unlock things for a previous pack and it improves or freshens the experience that give the other pack a bit more longevity, then it's worth doing. But what do I know I've only been in sales and marketing for 15 years.
If they are doing something with the Grim Reaper they probably have it already figured out about what powers you would have if you are playing as him. This is more a list to complement a pack that would deal with the Grim Reaper, death and related subjects. It also gives me another opportunity to suggests things I've always wanted in game. For what its worth here is what I would like to see.
The Grim Reaper - Small Details
Bonehilda still has a crush on the Grim Reaper
Grim Reaper will again do the ding-d*o*n*g ditch prank from Sims 2 at midnight on Halloween (Spooky Day) if you have 4 Jack O'Lanterns out within 4 tiles of your front door
If you have Spooky Day cookies sitting out at Midnight there will be a chance that Grim will show up and take one and raid the nectar supply, which will in turn leave puddle as he is a skeleton
Grim Reaper will allow a Sim Ghost to play chess against him and if they win Grim will resurrect the ghost. This references Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal starring Max Von Sydow.
The Grim Reaper is cordial but resents Vampires because they are creatures that have cheated Death i.e. Grim
The Grim Reaper feels sorry for Zombies but doesn't resent them because it already reaped their soul when they passed away
Grim isn't evil they just look that way. They're actual an angel really…an angel of death.
Grim only shows their angel wings when they're really furious
Grandfather Clock Update - I absolutely think we need more sound ambiance in game. Especially with anything spooky as it sets the mood.
Choice of Chimes
Ode to Joy
Westminster
Whittingham
Tolls at Midnight, 6AM, Noon, & 6PM
Winding the Clock
I'd also suggest doing the mantle clocks too along with chime sound more appropriate to them.
If by some miracle they were amenable I would make cuckoo clocks have chimes at the same intervals
If we don't already have it (I cannot remember)
Bats Screeching
Owls Hooting
Wolves Howling in the Forrest
Small Details - with some cross pack unlocks
If you have Sims 4: Vampires, the Toccata & Fugue in D Minor will be added to the songs a Sim can play on the pipe organ
Sims who give to charity can choose to donate to the Bell Ringers Association via the computer or sending a donation in the mail. If you have a belfry it implies there are bell ringers
Update to the Fireplace Upgrade Autolight - Only automatically turns on when the outside temperature is 40 degrees or below
Update sinks to have a Set as Kitchen Sink, Set as Bathroom Sink
Set as Front Door Interaction
Sims will enter & exit through the front door when exiting or entering from other lots. Back doors will still be what they use to go out into the backyard
Allows for the selection of a wreath for Holiday Decorations if you have Seasons
Selectable Holiday/Season/Event
Autumn
Baby Shower - Blue vs Pink
Day of the Dead
Diwali
Funeral
Garlic Wreath
Love Day
Lunar New Years
New Years
Snowflake Day
Spring
Spooky Day
St. Patrick's Day
New Writing Genre - Horror
At the Hills of Hysteria by P.H. Hateskill
Baylen's Plot by Kieven Sing
Camilla by Joe Feridan Le Shanu
It's FrankenstEEEn by Mary Brooks
The Haunting of Bill's House by Jackson Shirley
The Negotiation with the Nosferatu by Jan Spice
The Plummet of the Mansion of Marshall by Elder Talon Crow
The Shambling Cadavers by Kirk Robertsman
The Shimmering by Kieven Sing
The Snake & Moonbow by Davis Wade
Something Villainous by us Passes by Roy Cadbury
The Corvid by Elder Talon Crow
Vladcula by Graham Poker
Big Things
Population Control Window
Decide what Occult creatures can be in a town with a tic box. Or none at all
Aliens
Fairies - if we get them
Ghosts
Mermaids
Spellcasters
Vampires
Werewolves
Unicorns
Zombies
Assign a numerical value to each creature you select
Make half a town aliens - to achieve a future or alien world
Make the whole town Vampires if you want a Salem's Lot Scenario
Make all potential NPCs one of each kind to make a supernatural town
Add Celebrities & Paparazzi to the population window choices
New CAS Categories
Costumes
Funeral Attire
New CAS Assets
Under Eye Shadowing otherwise known as eye bags or under eye circles
Canes
Carved Cherry wood with a Silver Duck Handle
Wood with the plain curved handle
Elegant Ebony wood with a Gold Dragon Handle (Great for Vampires) Vampires can't touch silver
Elegant Ebony with a Gold Wolf (Great for Werewolves) Silver isn't good for Werewolves either
Costumes should also become a CAS clothing category. Famous movie monsters and Characters should be added so that we have better costume party/Halloween Party choices. I tried to make sure there were pairs for the costumes
Venetian Masks Commedia Dell Arte - Masquerade Party Masks
Bauta
Columbina
Medico Della Peste
Moretta
Pantalone
Volta
Zanni
CAP - Pet Costumes Category Update - Have a selection of Pet Costumes and when a costume party is held at the house the Dog or Cat changes into their costume just like everyone else.
Costume Choices
Astronaut
Bumblebee
Dracula
Egyptian Mummy
Fairy
Fireman
French Maid
Ghost
Hotdog
Leprechaun
Lion
Pirate
Sherlock Holmes
Skeleton
Spider
Super Hero
Taco
Tuxedo
Yoda
Holiday Themed Collars, Bow Ties & Name Tags - Spooky Day, Snowflake Day, New Years, Lunar New Years, "Easter"/ Love Day, Diwali, St. Patricks. Seriously I'd just do free drops around the applicable holidays. I mean how long would it take to design a holiday themed pet collar or a bow tie.
Funeral Tack for Horses
New Career
Fortune Teller - Has two branches and is a great resource for wards against occult creatures, prognostication and hard to find ingredients for charms and potions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mMrCXPCZAA
Mystic Branch
Scam Artist Branch
Divination
Crystal Ball reading - If you have Paranormal Stuff
Dream Interpretation
Palmistry
Spirit Board Reading
Star Chart
Tarot Card Reading
Tea Leaf Reading
Sims in the Fortune Teller - Mystic Branch, will learn the Medium skill from Paranormal Stuff at a higher rate
Fortune Teller - Mystic Branch, can also learn Herbalism more quickly
Mystics also perform Seances more successfully
Fortune Tellers can be hired for parties. Spooky Day parties are when they are most requested
Fortune Tellers can perform private readings
Creates & Sells Wards against occult creatures, Charms & Love Potion #9
Zodiac Signs (Western) - For making of star charts
New Community Lots
Cemetery
Rich Sims can purchase a mausoleum plot on the cemetery lot
Forgotten Hollow will be Updated to include a cemetery if this pack is purchased. I suggest the bend in the road before Straud Manor, Vlad's home.
The Willow Creek cemetery should be placed on the street across from the Jazz bar and gymnasium. The cemetery should be made like the above ground ones in New Orleans. It should have a slight Baron Samedi/voodoo flavor about it
Updates to Sulani & Mt. Komerabi to have a cemetery lot placed and appropriate looking graves for the area
All cemeteries will have an entrance to a Catacombs which is a rabbit hole for exploration
Cemeteries after dark will originate the Zombie Hordes. No cemetery, no Zombies.
Cemeteries will have sound effects that include Bats, Crows, Owls Hooting and Wolves Howling. These sound effects should be re-used in other zones.
Cemeteries will also be a very scary places to all but the very brave, Vampires, Werewolves & Zombies.
Laying Bouquets, Single Rose (Black, Pink, Red, White or Yellow) or a Calla Lily (White) by Tombstones
Lighting a Candle on the Grave
Knocking on the Grave as one would on a door
Leaving coins, Love Letters or small stones on a grave
Grave Tending - can be cleaned and weeds pulled
Historically minded Sims can do rubbings of the grave. Like they do in really old cemeteries around Boston
Pets will get their own cemetery or a section of the overall cemetery
Sims can leave tokens at graves - Dolls, Nectar Bottles, Candles, Flowers
You can catch a special kind of moth at the cemetery - The Death's Head Moth. A little Silence of the Lambs reference
Ghosts - People really want them to have a bit of a refresh
Bad Ghosts i.e. Poltergeists
No Hunger, Bladder or Hygiene Needs
Perk Tree - Someone on another thread called it Spectrology - I really like that
Possession should be a ghost power - I mean technically they already have it when they jump into objects
Messing with their grave will anger a ghost
Leaving Flowers or trinkets at the grave will please them
Bring Back the "Cause of Death" Colors make this a CAS choice as well
Evil Sims will not only be a particular color but they will have chains attached to their wrists and around their neck. The penance they pay for the evil chains they forged in life. You will hear chains rattle in addition to whatever death affects their ghost form
Ghosts will enjoy playing the pipe organ
Well…The Grim Reaper but he isn't really new. Since I'm sure if you already have a plan in mind for him I'll leave him for you all to deal with
Vampires
If you have Horse Ranch & Vampires, Evil Vampires will dislike pure white horses and pure white horse will be fearful of all vampires and will know they are vampires immediately. This is a reference to the Dracula from 1979 starring Frank Langella
Unlockable new Vampire Power - Eclipsing Fog
Zombies
Pretty much like they were in Sims 3
Cannot Speak just moan
Walks with a shuffle
Cannot enter locked gates or buildings
Vampires & Werewolves are immune to Zombie bites
However absolutely no eating garden plants - That was entirely annoying
Will think about brains a lot and you will see little thought bubbles with brains
Eclipsing Fog - Sims4: Vampires, this pack & Seasons - Should be the thicker since it is supernatural in nature, created as a summons by Vampires
Build/Buy
Apple Bobbing Tub - Unlockable it you have Spooky Party
Bat House
Belfry Build Pieces
Cemetery Gates
Coffins VS Caskets
Columbarium Niches
Fortune Teller Mechanical Booth (unlockale if you have high school years) - Put in a coin and it gives a fortune, or you can make a wish. Great for High School years fair area
Fortune Teller Caravan - Even if just a decorative item or build pieces to make our own along with the Lot Designation
Fortune Teller Sandwich Boards
Fortune Teller Radio Station Speaker
Funeral Podium - For Eulogies
Garden Labels with Skull & Crossbones
Garden Plaques with Skull & Crossbones
Gargoyles & Grotesques
Grim Reaper Altar
Grim Reaper's Scythe
Haunted House Build Pieces
Amityville Horror infamous Windows
Bent & Rusted Wrought Iron Fence w/ matching but Spooky Gate
to create sculptures of sims,
(sculpt from reference)
graveyard decor, urns and headstones
you also could capture sims soul at top level
•light a candle/latern by urn/gravestone
• funeral event
• funeral attire
• asian funeral attire
•Grim items/ interactions from past games
•Hula zombies if your sim died very happy or something
• zombie attack lot challenge
or it could be zombie spawning item hmm like a ground marking of some kind for them to emerge
•ghost improvements to make them more spooky
• grim career
•grim attire
•surfing just cause grim loves it
@redrogue60 I love your ideas! I also would love having a ghosthunter career and the ability to make ghosts in CAS,
We sort of have that with the Paranormal Investigator which is why I did not mention them for this pack but if you could be so kind as to list what you'd like to see in the Ghost Hunter Career that would be different I will add it to my post.
“All mushrooms are edible, but some only once.” Terry Pratchett
For what its worth here is what I would like to see.
[*] New Gardening Plants - Some Harvestables for Magic mostly non-Harvestable
Belladonna otherwise known as Deadly Nightshade - Which is a poison but also can be used as a medicinal plant for sleeping
Corpse Flower
Dracula Orchid
Hemlock
The poison garden would be lovely. Would be nice if we had harvestable poppies too. We could make poppy seed rolls or cake and tea for pain or sleep. And they could add some toxic mushrooms. And stinging nettles. If it's going to be a poison garden we need more variety.
I'd love a grim reaper career, going different lots and reaping the souls of sims, or choosing to spare them, finally get a better grim reaper outfit then the muddy textured base game one, I think it would be a lot of fun, a return of zombie sims would be a cool new occult type, there's a lot to play with here.
I'd love a grim reaper career, going different lots and reaping the souls of sims, or choosing to spare them, finally get a better grim reaper outfit then the muddy textured base game one, I think it would be a lot of fun, a return of zombie sims would be a cool new occult type, there's a lot to play with here.
It's my understanding that we may see updates with the Grim Reaper. I think that it just speculation at the moment. However if they are in the planning stages I wanted to put in my two cents.
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“All mushrooms are edible, but some only once.” Terry Pratchett
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(sculpt from reference)
graveyard decor, urns and headstones
you also could capture sims soul at top level
• funeral event
• funeral attire
• asian funeral attire
•Grim items/ interactions from past games
•Hula zombies if your sim died very happy or something
• zombie attack lot challenge
• grim career
•grim attire
•surfing just cause grim loves it
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We sort of have that with the Paranormal Investigator which is why I did not mention them for this pack but if you could be so kind as to list what you'd like to see in the Ghost Hunter Career that would be different I will add it to my post.
The poison garden would be lovely. Would be nice if we had harvestable poppies too. We could make poppy seed rolls or cake and tea for pain or sleep. And they could add some toxic mushrooms. And stinging nettles. If it's going to be a poison garden we need more variety.
Buuuut… a real TS4 pack would only have, like, 20% of the ideas listed here, let’s be honest. 😅
It's my understanding that we may see updates with the Grim Reaper. I think that it just speculation at the moment. However if they are in the planning stages I wanted to put in my two cents.