Okay everyone so here's my new idea for my new uglacy which is a theme full of heroes (I know his has been done, but it really doesn't have to do with the story overall, just little individual characteristics will relate to famous heroes).

So, my legacy founder and his girlfriend are in college right now, meeting tons of students from all over. Most of the students are very smelly, but my founder (Aaron)'s girlfriend (Sophie Dallas, you know her? ) has a keen eye for these smelly people. In fact, she LOVES them. She cheats on poor Aaron all the time with these smellies, even though they're engaged. Anyway, once they get married and Sophie starts cheating even more I'm going to have Aaron go to the matchmaker to ask about this problem. The matchmaker is going to tell Aaron to beware of poisoned mashed potatoes (Which he does). Sophie is going to accidentally poison mashed potatoes and feed them to their neighbor (rather than Aaron), and the woozy neighbor is going to accidentally wander into the cowplant pen. You know what happens then....Well, this causes a little bit of a feud between my founder's family and a neighboring family. To retaliate against the horrible mashed potato incident, the neighboring family is going to try and steal away the uglacy heir.

Hopefully this will set up my legacy for lots of substories, romances, and just all around craziness through the generations.

What do you think?

Thanks Rock! Maybe I'll go check out some stories here just to get my creative juices flowing.

What about with legacies? Do you do the same thing?

Thanks for the suggestions guys. You're right though. I think I've been going at the story the wrong way. I need to start writing the story (at least a little bit) before I take all of the pictures.

Thanks egghugger! I'm exactly the same way. I love to read them but I don't really know how to mimic what I see in other people's stories. But, yes, I agree. Random speech bubble stories are great!

So....do you guys usually take a bunch of pictures throughout a sims lifetime and then make the story/captions after they have grown older? Or do you snap one picture at a time and write the caption right then and there (or right after the event has happened)? I've heard people do it both ways but wanted to know your opinions.

Thanks guys for your great suggestions!

Hi everyone! I'm new to the site but certainly not very new to the sims. (Been playing most of my life away, in fact! ) Anyway, I've been creating challenges and stories for a long time, but I have a real problem making legacies interesting. I've come to find that it's not just the theme that creates a good legacy, but individual characters that make some sort of story.

So, I always end up with good themes, but relatively uninteresting characters and no real story. Just sims with good clothes, funny names, but who don't stick out. Sure, they have personalities and dialogs, but how do you create a good story that really keeps people interested?

Does anyone have any general ideas? Or even story ideas that would fit into a themed legacy? I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

I just wanted you to know that you have the best skin and eyes! I don't know what I would do without them! You make the game seem so...elegant.